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Northern Forest Renewable Energy Report PDF

Fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change, and their extraction and combustion cause many other serious environmental and social impacts.  For this reason, one of the most important tasks for our age is to accomplish a transition to renewable home-grown sources of energy.  However, renewable energy development also has impacts and could encroach on large areas of intact forestland in northern New England.  How do we decide when these new developments are truly necessary?

2012 Priority Land Acquisition Projects: LWCF and Forest Legacy PDF

The Wilderness Society has identified top priority Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and Forest Legacy land acquisition projects across the country. These projects are found in 14 states, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. Read the complete list by clicking on the link below.

Protecting Maine’s Communities, Economy and Environment from Global Warming PDF

Global warming is already affecting Maine and will continue to do so for decades to come.  In the absence of national policy that jumpstarts the clean energy economy by ramping down dangerous carbon emissions, our economy and wildlands are at an even greater risk. As a result, additional resources are even more necessary for protecting our natural heritage, jobs, and communities from climate disruption. Given the scale of the threat there is no time to waste. 

Protecting our Forests: Biomass Sources in the Northeast PDF

Tree waste - sawmill byproducts, urban tree trimmings, and tops and limbs leftover from timber harvesting - can be a nearly carbon neutral energy source when burned for heat and electricity. However, burning whole trees can actually produce more greenhouse gases than even coal or oil - and 98.5% of mill waste is already being utilized.

Saving the Last Wilderness Treasures VIDEO

After 75 years of fighting to protect America's wildest places, The Wilderness Society's job is nowhere near complete. Here's a glimpse at some of the places that still need to be saved — places threatened by everything from oil and gas development to off-road vehicle abuse to climate change. Please join the fight to protect these treasures before it's too late.

Restore, Rebuild, Revitalize: Now more than ever, America needs jobs PDF

The challenges posed by unemployment and climate change create a powerful opportunity to revitalize our economy while restoring the backbone of our wellbeing: our natural heritage. Safeguarding our natural resources — our forests, rivers, prairies and other wildlands — in a warming world will protect and create jobs across the country today, while investing in our country's future.