League of Wilderness Defenders

This April in honor of Earth Day, Eco-Integrity Alliance is setting up a billboard (actual photo above) on Interstate 5 inside Oregon’s capital city of Salem to pressure Congress to stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars cutting down our carbon-storing public forests under the phony guise of “wildfire fuel reduction.” Instead we’re urging the U.S. Senate to fund Firewise home hardening programs that actually save homes from burning.

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are leading the charge to ramp up logging in our National Forests over the next ten years, siphoning $30 billion in taxpayer dollars to put tens of millions of acres on the chopping block under this fraudulent scheme that endangers our homes, lives, and climate (a House companion bill has been introduced by Colorado’s Rep. "Clearcut" Joe Neguse).

Of course, a large and growing body of peer-reviewed scientific studies show that not only won’t logging protect communities from the natural and essential process of wildfire, tree-cutting can make flames burn hotter and spread faster by opening forests to sunlight and wind.

Instead, the scientific consensus is that hardening homes—Firewise measures such as installing non-flammable roofs and maintaining defensible space 15-60 feet around structures—can save the vast majority from the most intense wildfires.

Over a million people saw Eco-Integrity Alliance’s first two billboards in Eugene, Oregon and Denver, Colorado in 2020 and 2022. We’ve already paid for a month of exposure for our newest one in Salem, Oregon on busy Interstate-5, but we’ll need your help if we’re going to keep it up through May 28—the National Day of Forest-Climate Action—along with the much-needed pressure on our elected officials to do the right thing.

Will you protect homes, lives, and our biodiversity + climate buffers by making a contribution towards our goal of $3,000 to keep the billboard up until June? All gifts are tax-deductible through our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, League of Wilderness Defenders.

Thank you,

Eco-Integrity Alliance Steering Committee (fiscally sponsored by League of Wilderness Defenders)