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Deceptively named “Fix Our Forests Act” threatens Wilderness with more livestock grazing and manager-ignited fires: Tell your senators to vote NO

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee will vote on Tuesday, October 21 to pass the so-called “Fix Our Forests Act” (S. 1462) out of committee so the full Senate can vote on the bill.

The U.S. House passed its version of the bill this past spring, and while the Senate version is slightly different, the "Fix Our Forests Act" will dramatically change how America’s national forests will be managed, and Wilderness won't be spared.

The “Fix Our Forests Act” will expand destructive livestock grazing in national forests, including in Wilderness. Taxpayers already heavily subsidize livestock grazing, as livestock are permitted to displace wildlife, trample streamside vegetation, and spread invasive, flammable weeds for literally just a few pennies a day.

Dominating Wilderness with more livestock grazing and manager-ignited fires will not eliminate climate and weather-induced fire severity, but will eliminate the purpose of Wilderness—landscapes and communities of life undominated and “untrammeled” by humans.

There are many other problems with this bill. It hobbles public participation in public lands management, National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act requirements, and imposes very short timelines for judicial review and relief.

Thank you for speaking up for Wilderness, public lands, and the wildlife that call it home!

Urge your senators to vote NO on the falsely-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”

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Tell your senators to vote NO on the "Fix Our Forests Act"

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Subject: Vote NO on the Fix Our Forests Act

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As your constituent, I’m asking you to oppose the falsely named “Fix Our Forests Act.” The bill would override bedrock environmental laws to increase livestock grazing and widespread use of manager-ignited fire in Wilderness. Increasing the grazing that taxpayers already heavily subsidize will cost taxpayers more while grazing spreads flammable invasive weeds. The bill would also override bedrock environmental laws and curtail public participation to mandate landscape-scale logging on federal lands, including industrial logging on up to 10,000 acres—or 15 square miles—of federal public lands categorical excluded from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act under the rationale that cutting down trees across 15 square miles of forests has no significant impacts on the environment or wildlife. The bill is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt dramatically increase logging, roadbuilding, and livestock grazing on federal public lands by undermining our nation’s bedrock environmental laws. Please vote NO on the “Fix Our Forests Act.”

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