Today GHCC and others filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump-era rule change that allows logging of mature and old growth forests on over 7 million acres of national forests across Eastern Oregon and Washington.

The risk of wildfire is not the only environmental consequence if the B2H transmission project becomes a reality.

President Biden traveled to the Pacific Northwest to sign an Executive Order to expand his Administration’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Among other things, the order will safeguard mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.

We need big bold visions to address climate change and biodiversity loss. The bad news is that these two rapidly accelerating processes power each other.