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Mark Nelson
Feb 24
Vermont Wildlands Act: Exciting News for Wild Forests and Wildlife
Old forests are now "essentially absent" from the Vermont Landscape. The Vermont Wildlands Act would protect core state lands, like this...
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Zack Porter
Feb 21
RELEASE: Representative Amy Sheldon introduces Vermont Climate Resilience and State Wildlands Act
RELEASE: Representative Amy Sheldon introduces Vermont Climate Resilience and State Wildlands Act
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Zack Porter
Jan 15
RELEASE: One hundred activists protest destructive Telephone Gap logging plan; call on the VT congressional delegation to cancel the project
One hundred activists protest destructive Telephone Gap logging plan; call on the VT congressional delegation to cancel the project
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Chris Gish
Jan 14
TAKE ACTION: Last Official Chance to Weigh in on Disastrous Telephone Gap Project
Join us on or before Friday, January 17th in submitting objections to the GMNF's reckless Telephone Gap logging project!
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Zack Porter
Jan 4
A Golden Anniversary
Happy 50th to Vermont’s Lye Brook and Bristol Cliffs Wilderness areas, and the Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness in New Hampshire!
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Mark Nelson
Dec 18, 2024
Standing Strong
Celebrating another year of progress for New England's public forests!
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Zack Porter
Oct 1, 2024
PRESS STATEMENT: VT ANR fails to respond to climate and extinction reality with final Worcester Range plan
Standing Trees is deeply saddened and disappointed to learn that the VT ANR has approved a lackluster final plan for the Worcester Range
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Zack Porter
Sep 23, 2024
1 million comments support old growth protections on National Forests
The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees
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Zack Porter
Sep 13, 2024
TAKE ACTION: Speak up for Vermont state lands!
Speak up for Vermont state lands by attending an upcoming public meeting and submitting a comment to put the PUBLIC back in public lands!
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Zack Porter
Aug 30, 2024
Join Standing Trees for a fall outing!
Choose between big views from the top of the Worcester Range, explore an old-growth forest, or paddle with us on NH's Lake Tarleton!
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Zack Porter
Aug 7, 2024
TAKE ACTION: Weigh in by September 20th to protect mature and old-growth forests from logging
The Forest Service is on the verge of finalizing an old-growth logging plan instead of an old-growth protection policy. Take action today!
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Zack Porter
Jul 13, 2024
TAKE ACTION: Tell VHCB and ANR to put Vermont's 30x30 process back on the right path
Vermont passed historic 30x30 legislation in 2023. A year on, the entities in charge of implementing Act 59 are at risk of violating the law
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Zack Porter
Jun 21, 2024
PRESS STATEMENT: Biden Admin must push Forest Service for stronger mature and old-growth protections on federal lands
On Thursday the Forest Service released a long-anticipated draft analysis for a new policy to manage older forests on federal lands
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Zack Porter
Mar 15, 2024
TAKE ACTION: Telephone Gap On the Chopping Block (Round 2)
Submit a comment today to stop the US Forest Service from logging some of the healthiest forests in all of Vermont!
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Zack Porter
Jan 12, 2024
Hanging in the Balance: The future of Vermont's Wild Worcester Range
Vermont ANR has released a draft of its first-ever management plan for the Worcester Range. The public has until February 2nd to comment.
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Zack Porter
Nov 18, 2023
PRESS RELEASE: New Report Highlights Hidden Economic Cost of McNeil Generating Station
Burlington Electric Dept ratepayers are losing millions of dollars each year; money that could be better invested in low-carbon energy.
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Zack Porter
Sep 14, 2023
Going nowhere: Proposed ski gondola threatens habitat and treasured landscape at the top of Vermont
The public has been kept in the dark about a proposal to connect Stowe (Vail Resorts) and Smugglers Notch Ski Resort by a new gondola.
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Zack Porter
Jun 13, 2023
RELEASE: McNeil biomass power plant goes “on trial” at Burlington City Hall
McNeil power plant goes “on trial” at Burlington City Hall. Experts to set the record straight on Vermont's single largest source of carbon.
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Zack Porter
Apr 20, 2023
RELEASE: Forest Service takes key step toward national rule to protect mature, old-growth forests
Forest Service takes key step toward national rule to protect mature, old-growth forests.
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Zack Porter
Apr 13, 2023
TAKE ACTION: Speak up for forests at the Vermont State House!
Take Action for forests at the Vermont State House! Lawmakers need to hear from you today on two bills - H126 and S5.
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