Consider this your personal invitation to a very special guided hike to a super awesome spot on YOUR public lands on Saturday, June 14 @ 10 am, led by Forest Management Analyst Rocky Smith, Wildlife Habitat Conservationist Andrew Rothman, mountain lion expert David Neils, Eco-Integrity Alliance’s Josh Schlossberg, and other ecological experts!

Over about 2 hours, you’ll have the option of either a mellow stroll (slow ~1.5-mile round trip) or moderate trek (medium-paced ~3.5-mile round trip) through an ecologically important montane ecosystem in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest (about 30 miles south of Denver), currently threatened by Colorado’s biggest and most destructive logging sale of the century.

Yup, we’re talking about the U.S. Forest Service’s so-called “Lower North South Vegetation Management,” which involves a mind-boggling 116,000 acres of aggressive logging—18,500 of which would occur in supposedly protected Roadless Areas—including clearcuts up to forty acres in size.

What’s more, this carbon-storing, biodiverse forest–which includes mature and old growth!–is crucial habitat for wildlife listed under the Endangered Species Act, including the Mexican spotted owl, Pawnee montane skipper, Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, and threatened Canada lynx.

And it’s part of a fake “emergency” under which the Department of Agriculture has placed 112 million acres—59% of all National Forests—on the chopping block at the behest of the Trump administration’s not-so-subtle executive order for “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.”

We really hope you can come out to YOUR public lands that YOUR government wants to spend YOUR tax dollars to log, and see what we have to lose if we don’t take action now!

If you think you can make it, please RSVP at email coloradosmokescreen@proton.me or with the form below so we know how many people you’ll bring with you. We’ll then get you the meeting location by the first week of June.

In the meantime, learn more about the Lower North South Vegetation Management project here.

Forest Management Analyst Warns of “Strongly Adverse Impacts” from 116,000-acre “Wildfire Fuel” Logging in Roadless Areas