One of the first bills to pass the US House in the 119th Congress was the deceptively-named "Fix Our Forests Act," a far-reaching proposal to make it easier to log public lands with little public input or environmental review, under the false pretense of wildfire prevention. Now introduced into the Senate, it is important to add your voice to the nationwide chorus rejecting Fix Our Forests and any attempt to gut our environmental laws and speed up logging on public lands.

The January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles made it easier for Republicans to drum up fear and push this bill forward under false promises that increased wildlands logging will prevent catastrophic fires like these. But science says the opposite: the LA fires originated in brushy urban areas and became catastrophic from a combination of high winds, drought, and an irresponsible and deeply unjust pattern of human settlement, factors which no amount of logging could have changed. Even in forested areas, there is no evidence that logging, especially of mature and old forests, meaningfully reduces fire risk. The real effects of the "Fix our Forests" bill would be to weaken environmental protections, expose our federal land to expanded logging, cut out community input, harm wildlife, habitat and clean water, and perversely divert resources that could be used for effective wildfire countermeasures like home hardening, defensible spaces, better-planned development, and (of course!) climate action.

Send a message to your Senators telling them to reject this harmful bill.