PRESS RELEASE: Standing Trees and Environmental Advocacy Clinic Score Early Victory in Lawsuit Over Vermont Public Land Management

Right now, the “comprehensive strategy” to implement Vermont’s 30x30/50x50 conservation law is neither comprehensive nor visionary. Join us on March 18 in Middlebury or online, and submit comments by March 31, to make sure wild public lands are at the heart of biodiversity conservation in Vermont. [3/20/26 Update: Watch the recording of our Act 59 Public Input Session at this link] Act 59 has enormous potential to foster biodiversity conservation on Vermont State Lands like t

Submit comments by February 11 on the Northern Escarpment Project, a prescribed burning, tree cutting, and herbicide application proposal on up to 2,770 acres of the Moosalamoo NRA near Middlebury — which the Forest Service is attempting to move forward without substantive environmental review. [2/11/26 Update— Read Standing Trees' full comment at this link. ] Members of the Standing Trees community visited the Northern Escarpment Project area last summer, hiking up to Chandl

Comments due starting October 16. Join our allies at Save MA Forests, RESTORE: The North Woods, and MA Sierra Club in speaking up during...

Join us in submitting an objection on or before September 22nd — especially if submitted an earlier comment. Below we give you an...

Vermont’s landmark 30x30/50x50 conservation law is intended to make space for natural processes and restore an “ecologically functional...

New federal litigation alleges U.S. Forest Service approval of Sandwich Vegetation Management Project failed to consider climate, biodiversity, water and forest health; seeks to protect wild, old forests in the shadow of iconic Mount Chocorua

The Vermont Climate Resilience and State Wildlands Act will protect cherished public lands like the Tinker Brook Natural Area in Coolidge...

Old forests are now "essentially absent" from the Vermont Landscape. The Vermont Wildlands Act would protect core state lands, like this...

RELEASE: Representative Amy Sheldon introduces Vermont Climate Resilience and State Wildlands Act

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

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

Speak up for Vermont state lands by attending an upcoming public meeting and submitting a comment to put the PUBLIC back in public lands!

Vermont passed historic 30x30 legislation in 2023. A year on, the entities in charge of implementing Act 59 are at risk of violating the law

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

Vermont ANR has released a draft of its first-ever management plan for the Worcester Range. The public has until February 2nd to comment.

The public has been kept in the dark about a proposal to connect Stowe (Vail Resorts) and Smugglers Notch Ski Resort by a new gondola.

The US Forest Service needs to hear from you by August 30th on a proposed logging project that threatens the White Mountain National Forest!

Take Action for forests at the Vermont State House! Lawmakers need to hear from you today on two bills - H126 and S5.