Help stop clearcutting in California!

Did you know that:

• more than one-third of the Sierra Nevada is privately owned?
• clearcutting is still allowed on private timberlands in California, and is now the primary logging method used in the Sierra Nevada?
• one private corporation, Sierra Pacific Industries owns 1.5 million acres of timberland in the Sierra Nevada, of which it plans to clearcut one million acres?
• the California State Board of Forestry regulates logging on private lands, but has failed to act to stop this practice.
• clearcutting destroys the forest, causes soil erosion that pollutes our drinking water, harms fish and wildlife, leaves unsightly scars, and makes our forests more vulnerable to wildfires.
• and it's not necessary - there are viable alternatives to clearcutting using sustainable and ecologically sensitive logging methods.

You can help to stop massive clearcutting in California.

Join other activists to work on this issue. You could help make phone calls, write letters, speak to other groups, help with mailings, collect signatures, create flyers, attend Board of Forestry meetings, or donate money to help support these activities - whatever your interest! Contact Patricia Jones at (510)548-2204 or StopClearcutting@sierraclub.org

Also use the e-mail form on Gov. Schwarzenegger's web page at www.govmail.ca.gov/ to urge him to tell the Board of Forestry to end clearcutting on private forest lands in California. Please copy us on your e-mail at StopClearcutting-at-sierraclub.org