The top current issue/action across ten U.S. states from Eco-Integrity Alliance’s 11 State Advocates. Email eia@eco-integrityalliance.org to get involved in your state today!
CALIFORNIA
State Advocate: Melissa Soderston (Tahoe Forests Matter)
Opposing logging, burning, and herbicide spraying scheme in the Eldorado National Forest.
COLORADO
State Advocate: Josh Schlossberg
Fighting “Big Four” Logging Scheme – Grassroots campaign to stop almost 500,000 acres of fake “emergency” logging across endangered species habitat, seventeen Roadless Areas, and old-growth forest.
IDAHO
State Advocate: Jason Christensen (Yellowstone to Uintas Connection)
Advocating for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, the only comprehensive solution for protecting our national heritage which lies in the mountains, meadows, and rivers of the Rocky Mountains of the great American West.
MAINE
State Advocate: Lance Stewart (The Buck Stops Here)
Transmission Infrastructure Expansions and Protecting Rural Maine – Grassroots efforts to minimize greenfield transmission overdevelopment (impacting forests, farms, and watersheds) when existing corridors, existing colocated rights-of-way, and DC power technologies can mitigate against greenfield development.
MONTANA
State Advocate: Chris Bachman (Yaak Valley Forest Council)
Opposing massive logging projects covering more than 300,000 acres on the Kootenai National Forest’s western side.
NEW MEXICO
State Advocate: Sam Hitt (Santa Fe Forest Coalition)
Urging U.S. Forest Service to account for logging and disease threats to white pines in the Santa Fe National Forest.
OREGON
State Advocate: Shannon Wilson (League of Wilderness Defenders)
Fighting Trump’s Oregon BLM proposal to log out last remaining ancient forests across 2.4 million acres in Western Oregon.
PENNSYLVANIA
State Advocate: Samantha Chirillo
Pennsylvania HB 1834 data center bill passed the House, stalled in Senate; tech companies need to bear their share of energy costs and provide their own cleaner reliable power but falls short of incentivizing water-saving technologies.
UTAH
State Advocate: Rebecca Diehl
Opposing Pine Valley, Big Cottonwood Canyon, and other “fuel reduction” logging and burning schemes on Utah to protect public lands and public health.
WASHINGTON
State Advocate: Rob Lewis (The Climate According to Life)
Halting Washington Department of Natural Resources’ logging proposals on numerous legacy forests.
WYOMING
State Advocate: John Carter (Yellowstone to Uintas Connection)
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Designation in Five Counties.
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