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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!

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