Protect America's National Forests
The Ancient Forest Roadshow is crossing the USA with a symbol of our national heritage, a 420-year-old Douglas Fir, the Doug, to show Americans the impacts of the Bush Administration's timber policies on our roadless national forest areas, our air, and our water, and to allow them to see and touch what was once living history.
End of the roadThe Ancient Forest Roadshow has now ended. The Dougs have come to rest in their home, the Northwest. They'll be seen again somewhere, some day. Collectively the Roadshow covered 42,900 miles, 38 states with planned stops in 30, and touched thousands and thousands of people. Over 41 volunteer activists donated their time to being a “roadie.” We had help from citizen groups and environmental organizations in every state we visited.Thank you to everyone from the Doug, the Ancient Forest Roadshow and the remaining ancient forests in the United States. |
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Going, Going, GoneBiscuit Fire Recovery Project(Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon)
The Biscuit Post-Fire Recovery Project is
one of the largest logging projects in U.S.
Forest Service history. The plan would cut
down enough trees from the Siskiyou National
Forest - the most botanically diverse national
forest in the U.S. (pictured left) - to fill
76,000 log trucks lined up end to end for over
650 miles. The plan would also call for
logging 8,173 acres of roadless wildlands and
6,756 acres of ancient forests.
Take a look at info about this and other forests we could lose soon: Forests at Risk > Find out how > |
Final word
One of our star roadies, Justin Rohde of Siskiyou Project summarized the success of the Roadshow well, “The ramifications for this will never be fully realized. One thing is for sure though, thousands of people across Southern Oregon and the U.S. will never forget how an old growth slab changed something inside of them for good, something they may not be able to explain, yet something intrinsically apart of themselves for which they even by glance became connected to, so much so that the whispers continue in small convenience stores and small town alleyways, "did ya see the Doug?"
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