Joint Action Letters - Sequoia ForestKeeper® supports a broad range of conservation efforts.
Find the letters below that SFK has signed supporting environmentally significant projects across the globe.
10 November 2021
Letter calling for President Biden to cancel the
Nov 17 megasale of 80+ million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas
development.
Comment
letter to President Biden, Secretary Vilsack, and Secretary Haaland supporting protecting
Greater Yellowstone and the 30 by 30 plan.
5 October 2021
Comment letter to Interior Secretary Haaland.
27
September 2021
Comment
letter to President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Schumer
supporting wildlife recovery provisions in Build Back Better.
20
September 2021
Letter
to Governor Newsom from 31 stakeholder organizations requesting full funding of
the Delta Independent Science Board and sign SB 821.
7
September 2021
Letter
to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer to inform them of the propaganda
fueled by the fossil fuel industry on the benefits of hydrogen energy.
29
July 2021
Letter
to Senator Wyden and Congressperson Neguse regarding so-called climate resiliency
funding as just another way to package logging and native habitat conversion.
27
July 2021
Letter
to the Council on Environmental Quality regarding the revision of NEPA implementation
and executive orders that break existing caselaw. The whole NEPA revision must
be rewritten to offer consistent guidance that protects the environment not the
polluters.
15
July 2021
100
organizations find the changes to NEPA under 85 Fed. Reg. 73,620 published on
(Nov. 19, 2020) (“the Rule”), to permanently damage species ability to survive
and exacerbate earth's destruction from climate change. The Rule undermines the
Forest Service’s weighty responsibility to ensure that its actions contribute
to carbon storage, promote resilience, and protect our remaining biodiversity.
4
July 2021
Groups
opposed to the San Mateo and Santa Cruz plans to masticate thousands of acres
of habitat in the name of fire prevention. The Forest Health and Fire
Resilience Public Works Plans. 28
May 2021
Letter
to California Governor, Senate President pro Tempore, Speaker of the Assembly,
Chairs of various budget committees, regarding the state funding of the dairy
biogas industry. The dairy biogas industry benefits few Californian’s but is a
detriment to many by exacerbating climate change and contributing to aquifer
pollution.
20 May 2021
Letter
to Secretary of the Interior Haaland to urge the Department of Interior to
maintain protections of the grizzly bear under the Endangered Species Act,
protect habitat, and to advocate for the funding and implementation of
non-lethal co-existence measures to support communities living near bears. The
best available scientific information indicates there is no biological or legal
justification for delisting any grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states
at this time.
20
May 2021
Joint letter
to USDA Secretary Vilsack expressing deep concern about the future of the
endangered grizzly bear urging that he direct the Forest Service to amend
select Land Management Plans that we detail below in order to better protect
grizzly bears and facilitate their recovery since the majority of grizzly
habitat in the lower 48 states is found on national forests.
20
May 2021
Letter
to the chairpersons’ of the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding the fate of the iconic and
endangered grizzly bear and other large mammals. With a request to increase
funding to stave off the worldwide rising extinction rate of all mammals.
20
May 2021
Letter to
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg requesting funding for roadway wildlife
crossings that save the lives of both people and animals. 19 February 2021 SFK
and many other organizations commented on proposed rangeland management
directives where the Forest Service sees a need to increase grazing on
its system lands contrary to science on invasive species and livestock
grazing. The agency bias toward livestock grazing, comes at the
expense of the many other uses of national forest land. Livestock
grazing causes immense damage to native vegetation, soils, and water
quality, and frequently helps spread noxious weeds. Grazing also
degrades and fragments wildlife habitat and is a major contributor to
global warming, as livestock, especially cattle, emit much methane, a
greenhouse gas. 12 January 2021 1 December 2020 16 November 2020 29 October 2020 5 October 2020
8 July 2020 16 April 2020 30 March 2020 24 March 2020One hundred twenty-two organizations including SFK agree on the Five Principles for Just COVID-19 Relief and Stimulus.1. Legislation must focus on combating the coronavirus pandemic and providing emergency relief directly to the people and communities who need it. 2. There must be absolutely no funding for fossil fuel executives and shareholders or that would promote fossil fuel production or infrastructure. 3. Funds should be provided for investment in zero emissions, sustainable energy technologies and equitable programs that will support healthy communities free of pollution. 4. Recovery funds should provide long-term security in the just and equitable energy transition for fossil fuel workers and communities economically dependent on fossil fuel production. 5. Congress must ensure stimulus plans protect the economy from the risks of climate change. 19 March 2020 20 February 2020 25 August 2019One
hundred and seventy organizations objected to the deregulation and
destruction of the National Environmental Policy Act proposed by the
2019 USDA. Our organizations provided the Forest Service 309 pages of
comments on the agency’s proposed rule regarding National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, 84 Fed. Reg. 27,544 (June 13, 2019), RIN
0596–AD31. One hundred years of stewardship will be
destroyed and the climate crisis will escalate to the point that there
will be no hope of guaranteeing a livable planet in the near future. 16 August 2019 13 May 2019 28 Mar 2019
Letter supporting S.921, Protect
Children, Farmers and Farmworkers from Nerve Agent Pesticides Act of 2019 28 February 2019 29 January 2019 10 January 2019 9 January 2019 6 December 2018 4 December 2018 7 September 2018 6 June 2018
Do not weaken wildlerness! 150 organizations from across the nation reject the unprecedented call to weaken the Wilderness Act to allow for the use of mountain bikes in designated Wilderness. Senate Bill, S. 2877 is a bill written to destroy more of nature by weakening the Wilderness Act to allow mountain bikes in Wilderness. The companion House bill, H.R. 1349, would also open the entire National Wilderness Preservation System to mountain bikes and other wheeled machines. The 1964 Wilderness Act (36 U.S.C. 1131-1136) banned all types of mechanized transport, including bicycles, in designated Wilderness. Section 4(c) of that act states, “[T]here shall be…no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.” This benefits hikers, horseback riders, and especially wildlife who have less and less habitat in which to live. We have to be better stewards. Please contact your Senators and Congressperson and implore them to vote against this assault on nature. 16 May 2018 11 May 2018 19 April 2018
21 March 2018
15 February 2018
26 January 2018
22 November 2017
23 October 2017
26 June 2017
Letter from 39 organizations voicing strong opposition to H.R. 2936, the “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017”. The bill overwhelming assaults the nation’s public lands and waters, and environmental laws. The bill severely undermines the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), eliminates citizen opportunities to seek judicial relief, allows millions of acres of currently protected roadless areas vulnerable to harmful road building and logging, reallocates funds under the Secure Rural Schools Act away from environmental restoration to timber production, dismantles interagency consultation integral to the Endangered Species Act, and puts national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act at risk. Among its problematic provisions, the bill creates multiple sweeping NEPA waivers; limits consideration of alternatives to the preferred action and no action alternatives; imposes 2-month deadlines on certain environmental assessments; and undermines citizens’ ability to enforce the law.
8 June 2017
Multiple groups expressed their opposition to HR 1873, Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act.
18 May 2017
Support for Assembly Joint Resolution 15 – Protecting California’s national monuments and the integrity of the Antiquities Act. These organizations wrote to California legislators Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd to thank them for championing an effort to re-state California’s ongoing commitment to national monuments. The groups urge the legislature to pass Assembly Joint Resolution 15 (AJR 15) in time for the June 8th anniversary of the Antiquities Act. On May 5, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a review of certain national monuments designated or expanded since 1996 under the Antiquities Act of 1906 in order to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13792 dated April 26, 2017. The Secretary of the Interior will use the review to “determine whether each designation or expansion conforms to the policy stated in the Executive Order and to formulate recommendations for Presidential actions, legislative proposals, or other appropriate actions to carry out that policy.”1 The DOI notice identified twenty-seven National Monuments under review – including seven in California – and has invited comments to inform their review.
10 April 2017
4 April 2017
14 November 2016
August 4, 2016
In this letter sent today to the State Water
Resources Control Board (State Board) and the Division of Oil, Gas and
Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) eleven
organizations including SFK raised a fundamental concern with the
process for exempting drinking water sources from the protections of the
Safe Drinking Water Act in order for oil and gas companies to inject
wastewater into aquifers.
“The use of already depleted
groundwater aquifers to dispose of oil field wastewater is a wasteful,
unreasonable use of water. The State Board has a duty to nullify this
wasteful, unreasonable use of our aquifers, and to recalibrate and
rebalance the groundwater system in light of current and likely future
droughts and other threats posed by climate change.”
May 9, 2016
March 28, 2016
March 23, 2016
January 27, 2016
Amicus Brief about East Reservoir Project in Kootenai National Forest - Amici’s (impartial advisers to the court for this particular case) interest in this matter is twofold. First, this case illuminates one of the most relevant issues in public lands today, local influence over forests that belong to the American public. Amici have an interest in ensuring that local interests and influence, which ultimately serve certain private interests, will not be given undue weight in an assessment of the legal merits of East Reservoir project -- a project that will heavily impact lands owned by the American people and their interests. Second, National forests, including the Kootenai National Forest, offer some of the most intact ecosystems which exist in the West, and often serve as the last refuge for threatened or endangered species such as the Lynx and the Grizzly Bear at issue in this case. Amici have an interest in ensuring that the East Reservoir Project will not unnecessarily damage this ecosystem and will adequately protect threatened and endangered species in compliance with the law.
January 12, 2016
November 13, 2014
Letter to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, Daniel Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Douglas Krofta, Chief, Branch of Listing, Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 220 companies and organizations requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service support the legal petition to protect the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the ESA. The North American monarch butterfly population has declined by 90 percent in the past 20 years, dropping from a high of approximately 1 billion butterflies in the mid-1990s to less than 35 million butterflies last winter – the lowest number ever recorded.
November 13, 2014
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