Stop Clearcutting CA

08/27/2026

The time is now!
We invite you to call your CA Assemblymember. Ask them to vote NO on SB1370, which fast-tracks logging projects in the name of wildfire and exempts up to 3,000 acre projects from environmental review.

08/27/2026

Please call your Assemblymember and ask them to vote NO on SB1370.

Sierra Club California and our partners are urging Senators Stern and Becker to pull and urging Assemblymembers to vote NO on SB 1370. This environmentally destructive bill would permanently waive key California environmental laws for large scale wildfire projects, weakening protections for our forests, waterways, wildlife, air quality, and public health.Wildfire solutions shouldn't come at the expense of California's environment.

SB 1370 could be voted on as soon as this week. We need to make sure our state leaders pull this dangerous bill and stand on the side of the environment, public health and vital ecosystems.
Read the press release to learn what's at stake and why California needs wildfire solutions that are effective, science-based, and protective of our communities and environment.
Press Release: https://www.sierraclub.org/california/environmental-groups-urge-state-senators-pull-environmentally-destructive-senate-bill

08/25/2026

🌲 Hello All!

We wanted to share this video with you (link in the comments)! It highlights the issue of intensified spraying of glyphosate on California forests. It details a year-long investigation that revealed that forests recovering from wildfires are being primed for timber production by being sprayed with glyphosate. Some of the heaviest spraying has occurred in Lake Tahoe Area, Yosemite Valley, Lassen Volcanic National Park. This video shows how communities are impacted by the spraying of glyphosate and how utilizing this herbicide impacts the regrowth of the forest ecosystem. The link to watch is in the comments below⬇️

⭐If you'd like to learn more about glyphosate's impact on forests check out our upcoming Forest Protection Forum, "Of Unknown Etiology: What's at stake with forest spraying?" on August 31 at 4pm. Register at the link in the comments.

08/24/2026

This past spring, the Bureau of Land Management proposed the first major overhaul of federal grazing regulations since 1995. The proposal aims to focus grazing on BLM land on commercial operations (instead of ecological grazing), relax requirements for ranchers whose land violates BLM rangeland health standards, and could exclude the public from decisions about public land.

According to “Effort to Unleash Cattle on Public Land Spells Trouble for Ecosystem Health,” an article in Sierra Magazine, BLM’s proposed changes could:
- reduce sustainable grazing practices and increase the public land available for commercial grazing
- allow public land, subsidized by taxpayers, to be controlled by a smaller number of wealthy ranchers
- cause a host of ecological issues: eroded and degraded soil, polluted water sources, a lack of growth in forests, damaged habitat for wildlife, and invasive species spread.

According to sources consulted for the Sierra Magazine article, the BLM does not have a robust enough system for evaluating rangeland health. This is important, especially if these potentially detrimental changes are introduced.

Unfortunately, the summer comment period regarding grazing on public land has passed, so this post at this time is informational. However the topic will likely continue to come up. Forest grazing directly impacts natural forest regrowth, so it’s important for people who care about forests to learn about it.

This is one example within a broader pattern of federal proposals to increase land management practices that could harm public lands. Another example is the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule, which right now we have the chance to comment on (see our previous post).

🌲To learn more about BLM’s proposed changes, and conservation groups’ views on sustainable grazing practices on public lands, visit the links🔗 in the comments below⬇️

08/22/2026

We invite you to join us for the next Forest Protection Forum from 4pm to 5:15pm PST on Monday August 31st!

Link to sign up is in the comments!⬇️🔗

Professor Don Huber will discuss, “Of Unknown Etiology: What's at stake with forest spraying?”

Summary: In this talk Dr. Huber will talk about the effects of glyphosate on forest ecosystems and human health. He is widely known for his insights into glyphosate's effects on health and the environment, frequently speaking at conferences on regenerative agriculture and organic farming.

Bio: Dr. Don Huber earned a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. in plant-related sciences from Michigan State University. In 1971, he joined Purdue University as an associate professor in Botany & Plant Pathology, specializing in soilborne diseases and microbial ecology. Promoted to professor in 1981, he is now a Professor Emeritus. During his academic career, he has authored over 300 journal articles and six books. As a former member of the military, he incorporated his expertise while serving on multiple national committees, advisory groups for Congress, and the Office of the Surgeon General.

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08/22/2026

We need your help to submit your public comment about the value of the Roadless Rule by September 21st! Tell this administration why we need to protect the roadless areas in our National Forest System.

The link is in the comments below⬇️. Submit your comment by September 21st!

🌲The Roadless Rule helps to preserve our undeveloped public lands. Created in 2001, it protects the still-wild areas of our public lands from road construction and timber harvesting. “In the future, expanding urban areas and increased fragmentation of private lands make it likely that the largest and most extensive tracts of undeveloped land will be those in public ownership.” This administration is proposing a full repeal of the rule.

🔈This rule was a direct result of feedback from 1.6 million Americans via public comment and 600 public hearings. It is now more important than ever that we make our voices heard and speak up once again for roadless areas. We have until September 21st to submit public comments.

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08/13/2026

This Friday, August 14th, is the deadline for Congress members to sign a bipartisan letter opposing the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) efforts to change long standing wilderness management policies and weaken protections on nearly 200 million acres of land. It is also the end of the public comment period on these wilderness management changes.

Take Action:
1) Tell your Representative to sign on to this letter and oppose DOI's attempt to limit protections for wilderness areas.
☎️Call your Representative by Friday August 14 at: (202) 224-3121.
Or find your elected official’s information at Govtrack

2) Submit your public comment asking DOI to defend America’s wilderness.
🔗Visit sc.org/wilderness to submit your public comment by Friday August 14.

📣Over the summer, the Department of the Interior began a wilderness management policy review by opening up a public comment period on management practices regarding congressionally designated wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, lands with wilderness characteristics, and lands that agencies have recommended or identified as eligible or suitable for wilderness designation.

📣Within this letter, members of Congress raise concerns that this policy review is an excuse for the Department to weaken existing protections on public lands. “The management changes that you are seeking will threaten the wilderness character of these lands and may disqualify them for future designation by Congress.”

⛰️Wilderness is vital as it provides habitats for wildlife, protects and filters our drinking water, reduces risk of floods and wildfire, and nurtures biodiversity and old-growth forests.

🌲Tell Congress YOUR story! Share favorite memories you have in wilderness areas and activities you enjoy when visiting public lands. Also share any cultural practices, spiritual benefits, subsistence activities, or other uses within wilderness areas that are important to you and your community.

In the comments below there is a link to a map of the wilderness areas that are at risk⬇️

08/06/2026

Speak up for national forests, wildlife protections, public lands, and public health. If your Senator is on the Agriculture Committee please call them tonight at (202)224-3121 and ask them to say “NO” to this version of the Farm Bill.

If you are in California, Senator Adam Schiff serves on the Agriculture Committee and you can reach his D.C. Office at: (202)224-3841

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry is meeting tomorrow, August 6th, to mark up the current version of the Agriculture Act of 2026. We strongly oppose the cuts to conservation spending and the extreme exemptions and categorical exclusions to NEPA, ESA, and NHPA included in the base text of this bill. Those exemptions elevate the logging industry, limit public input, and could increase wildfire risk by reinstating antiquated total fire suppression policy. We hope to see improvement of this bill as we do support Sen. Booker's amendment, which strikes the sections that include several categorical exclusions, the ESA exemption, and Cottonwood.

Additionally, we hope this committee will restore funding for SNAP, the nation’s most important food security and nutrition program.

Please check out the link in the comments below ⬇️ to see if your Senator is on the Agriculture Comittee.

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07/31/2026

Action due today! Link in comments.

The US Forest Service (USFS) is taking steps to rescind the mandatory public comment period from their rulemaking process, as well as updating their directives to allow USFS employees and officials to ignore mandatory rules of the Forest Service Handbook. This change would limit the checks and balances the public has on decisions made by the Forest Service and allow the Forest Service to change the rules on a whim and without any public input. Communities rely on these lands that the USFS manages.The public deserves to have a say in management decisions that affect 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands.

Make your voice heard and submit your public comment to the USFS today before the comment period closes on Friday July 31st!

The link to submit a public comment is in the comments below!⬇️

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07/30/2026

🚨 Wildfire solutions shouldn't come at the expense of California's environment. 🌲🔥
SB 1370 would exempt broadly defined wildfire mitigation projects from many of California's environmental laws, weakening safeguards that protect our forests, waterways, wildlife, air quality, and public health.
Here's what's at stake:
☠️ Allows potentially harmful practices. The bill would allow native tree and plant removal, herbicide applications, and other activities with known environmental and public health impacts to move forward with significantly less environmental review. Herbicides like glyphosate have been linked to cancer, respiratory disease, and neurological disorders and can harm fish, birds, amphibians, and other wildlife.
❓ No requirement that projects are effective. SB 1370 does not require projects to demonstrate that they will actually reduce wildfire risk or be cost-effective, despite many being funded by ratepayers or taxpayers. Research continues to show that some wildfire mitigation strategies can be ineffective, or even harmful, causing the loss of native shrublands and increasing the spread of invasive, highly flammable grasses.
🚫 Limited accountability. The bill provides no clear process to monitor or enforce environmental standards. Because many of the environmental laws agencies rely on for oversight would no longer apply, there is little accountability to ensure projects protect wildlife, waterways, or nearby communities.
California can address wildfire risk while maintaining the environmental protections that safeguard our communities and natural resources. 🌿
📞 Take action: Contact Speaker Rivas and the Assembly Appropriations Committee and urge them to VOTE NO on SB 1370. Tell them California needs wildfire solutions that are effective, accountable, and protective of our forests, water, wildlife, and public health.
💚 Protect California's environment. Protect our communities.