03/27/2025
Please send emails to your state representatives and senators to ask that they pass the RI Old Growth Forest Protection Act H 5294.
Currently, Rhode Island is the only state in New England with no forests on public land protected from logging.
The Old Growth Forest Protection Act H 5294, would create the first state laws to protect Forests and Biodiversity in Rhode Island.
This includes banning clearcutting in state-owned forests, protecting Old Growth Forests on state-owned and municipal-owned land, requiring environmental review before state logging operations, creating a functional Natural Areas Preserve system to protect the state's Natural Heritage Areas where rare and endangered species live, and bringing back the Rhode Island Natural Heritage Program to identify, monitor, and protect biodiversity for Rhode Island.
For more information, please visit our website at saveriforests.org, or send us an email at [email protected]
Thank you,
Nathan Cornell
President of the Old Growth Tree Society
