Lobby for MA Trees: Saving Trees Reduces Droughts & Heat

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Lobby for MA Trees: Saving Trees Reduces Droughts & Heat

Your State Representative and State Senator

Did you know that deforestation causes droughts and increases air temperatures throughout the region? Thus, cutting forests in western and southeastern Massachusetts contributes to droughts across the Commonwealth that threaten our drinking water, agriculture, rivers, and wildlife.

Regional forests have made Boston and MetroWest cooler than expected given global warming. Urban trees’ cooling effects reduce heat-related deaths and also energy consumption. The summer after cutting 30,000 trees (to eliminate the Asian long-horned beetle), Worcester increased electricity usage by 15%, and tree-depleted streets were 9^oF hotter than tree-lined streets.

Heat and drought will become more dangerous across the Commonwealth if we continue to cut down our forests and urban trees.

Sign the petition to tell your Massachusetts legislators to support these bills:

Protecting forests: H.952, H.953, H.1048,H.3559/S.2296 , H. 3548/S.2287, H.3549/S.2288, H.918, H.948
Expanding and protecting urban tree canopies:H.1013/S.553 , H.2322/S.1429 , H.1316
Factsheets of all the bills are here: https://tinyurl.com/TreesPG-factsheets

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Trees as a Public Good Network

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Our Revolution Massachusetts (ORMA)

To: Your State Representative and State Senator
From: [Your Name]

Dear Legislator,

Deforestation causes droughts and increases air temperatures across the Commonwealth, threatening our drinking water, agriculture, rivers, and wildlife. Regional forests have made Boston and MetroWest cooler than expected given global warming. Urban trees’ cooling effects reduce heat-related deaths and also energy consumption. After cutting 30,000 trees in 2009 (to eliminate the Asian long-horned beetle), Worcester increased electricity usage by 15% the following summer, and tree-depleted streets were 9oF hotter than tree-lined streets.

Heat and drought will become more dangerous across the Commonwealth if we continue to cut down our forests and urban trees. To ensure a livable future, we must take actions now to protect our forests and to expand our urban tree canopies.

We, your undersigned constituents, therefore urge you to co-sponsor and to actively support all of the following bills:

Bills protecting forests:
H.952, H.953, H.1048, H.3559/S.2296, H. 3548/S.2287, H.3549/S.2288, H.918, H.948

Bills Expanding and protecting urban tree canopies:
H.1013/S.553, H.2322/S.1429, H.1316

Factsheets and sponsors for all the bills are here:
https://tinyurl.com/TreesPG-factsheets