Environmentally Damaging Forestry Provisions of H.R. 2, The 2018 Farm Bill

ANALYSIS BY JOHN MUIR PROJECT OF EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE Our public forest lands are not a crops or “fuels”, they are ecosystems which provide, among other things, clean water, clean air, and habitat for native species. These forests are also one of nature’s best carbon storage and sequestration systems on the planet. When intact, they …