Standing Trees is shocked and outraged by Sen Peter Welch's (D-VT) vote in a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, where he joined every Republican member in support of the so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" (FOFA), S. 1462.

Middlebury College student and Standing Trees intern Sophia Galuppo shared her detailed research on policies for state lands management...

On Friday, the US Forest Service initiated a process to rescind the immensely popular and widely-supported 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, putting 45 million acres of the healthiest and wildest forests in the nation in the crosshairs, including approximately 260,000-acres across the White and Green Mountain National Forests in New Hampshire and Vermont

The Roadless Areas Conservation Act would strengthen existing protections for approximately 260,000-acres across the White and Green Mountain National Forests in NH and VT, and approximately 60-million acres of National Forests, nationwide

In a giveaway to the timber industry, the bill – which is presented as a measure against wildfire – could open the door to unlimited logging across millions of acres of national forests, undermining bedrock environmental and public health laws.

One hundred activists protest destructive Telephone Gap logging plan; call on the VT congressional delegation to cancel the project

Join us on or before Friday, January 17th in submitting objections to the GMNF's reckless Telephone Gap logging project!

Happy 50th to Vermont’s Lye Brook and Bristol Cliffs Wilderness areas, and the Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness in New Hampshire!

Join us on Jan 11th at Noon at the Green Mountain National Forest Headquarters to say NO to the destructive Telephone Gap logging project!

Celebrating another year of progress for New England's public forests!

The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees

Choose between big views from the top of the Worcester Range, explore an old-growth forest, or paddle with us on NH's Lake Tarleton!

The Forest Service is on the verge of finalizing an old-growth logging plan instead of an old-growth protection policy. Take action today!

Today, 34 organizations across the Eastern U.S. issued a letter to the United States Forest Service (USFS)

On Thursday the Forest Service released a long-anticipated draft analysis for a new policy to manage older forests on federal lands

More than 130 environmental groups from 39 countries call for decisive action to stop forest degradation and deforestation

Submit a comment today to stop the US Forest Service from logging some of the healthiest forests in all of Vermont!

The US Forest Service is proposing sweeping updates to old-growth forest management across the US. Will it weaken old-growth protections?

The Biden administration will announce Tuesday a proposed nationwide forest plan amendment to advance protections for old-growth forests

Nearly half million people call on Forest Service to protect mature, old-growth forests and trees from logging.