Please help protect the Quabbin forest

Please help protect the Quabbin forest!  (photo and post by Chris Matera)

This is the most important piece of undeveloped forest in Massachusetts that protects the drinking water for 2.2 million citizens, and the public owns it, but private logging companies want to start logging it again.

Environment Massachusetts is running an excellent campaign to permanently ban logging in the Quabbin and needs our help now.

Please go to this easy link to send a message:

https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=317

For a reminder why we need to keep the private logging companies out of the quabbin, please see:

Quabbin Watershed Clearcutting - Ground & Aerial (15 MB):   www.maforests.org/QUABBIN.pdf

  

Quabbin Watershed Clearcutting - Google (5 MB): 

www.maforests.org/QUABBIN_Google_Earth.pdf

Please forward this message to friends and family!

thank you

Chris Matera

Massachusetts Forest Watch
www.maforests.org
www.maforests.org/MFWBmess.pdf
413-341-3878

Global warming state by state

Measure thirty years' worth of average temperatures from 1971 to year 200.  Now do the same thirty year measurement from 1981 to 2010 and compare the difference.  The state that's seen the biggest temperature increase?  Colorado.  But all of the Rocky Mountain states have seen big increases, and there isn't a single state in the country that isn't warmer now than 30 years ago.  Summit County Citizens Voice.

While large parts of the U.S. government, including a majority in Congress, continue to deny the reality of climate change, the U.S. Forest Service is not among them.  The service gets to see the reality up close.  See here for a list of the climate change presentations available on their site.

Wildfire Today has a report on climate change and wildfires.  Read it and weep.  In thirty years, there may be no forests left in Yellowstone National Park.