NEW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE • September 12, 2024
In 2022, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to save old growth trees on public lands. This year the U.S. Forest Service released a draft National Old Growth Amendment (NOGA), which could ultimately require weighing the climate impacts of their logging plans, and a commitment to save old growth forests. But that amendment needs to be strengthened before it is finalized. Contrary to current climate science, the USFS NOGA includes managing old growth forests with extensive logging. ~ Nancy Polan, Sierra Club, Mass chapter