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?
The Table Mountain Roadless Area inside New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest would be logged — and in some locations clear-cut — under the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed “Northeast Swift” timber project.
The land is visible to the north from the famous Kancamagus Scenic Highway.
This is the eighth timber project proposed in the forest’s roadless areas since 2005, and we have submitted comments outlining our strong opposition.
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.
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.
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.
Covering almost 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and Maine, the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) contains some of the most untamed country remaining in the Northeast – yet the Forest Service is approving more destructive logging projects on this single protected “roadless” forests than it has for the rest of the entire country combined.
