The implementation process for Act 59, Vermont’s landmark 30x30/50x50 conservation law has been a charade of manufactured consensus and status quo ideas. We need you to speak up by November 28 for public process, wild public lands, and the intent of the law itself.

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

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

Lawsuit alleges the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has violated the state constitution and discriminated against Vermonters in its management of State Lands

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

Standing Trees and Concerned Vermonters Petition for Lawful Public Process for Managing State Lands, Protecting Public Interests

H.276 would permanently protect Sterling Pond and 268,000 acres of other state land across Vermont. Hello friends of wild places! I...

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

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

Standing Trees is deeply saddened and disappointed to learn that the VT ANR has approved a lackluster final plan for the Worcester Range

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

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!

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

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

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.

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