Allegheny Forest Defense Project

The Trump Administration is taking public comment opportunities away from the people. This is more dictator bullshit. forestpolicypub.com/2025/06/30/u...

We know these are difficult times. If it helps to do something, help us oppose Trump's plans to clearcut Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. www.alleghenyforest.org/trump-admini...

The Trump administration has ended the Roadless Rule that protected our wildest forest areas. This is bad for our national forest including Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. The Corydon Project (now open for comment) would allow clearcutting adjacent to a roadless area.

The Trump Administration is proposing more clearcutting in Allegheny National Forest. The Corydon Project would clearcut over 1,800 acres. Public Comment needed NOW! www.alleghenyforest.org/trump-admini... #nationalforests

Allegheny Forest Flare: Active Threat. The Upper Mill Project. Plans to log > 2,000 acres. Widespread herbicide use on > 2,800 acres. Endangered bat habitat destruction. Sediment will threaten waterway health.

Help protect our #nationalforests! www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

Endangered Species Day. May 16, 2025. Join us in advocating for our locally threatened wildlife species who call the Allegheny National Forest home.

Endangered Species Day. May 16, 2025. Join us in advocating for our locally threatened wildlife species who call the Allegheny National Forest home. www.alleghenyforest.org #nationalforests

Endangered Species Day 2025. Join Our fight for clean waterways for the Eastern Hellbender Salamander and freshwater mussels. Advocate for our endangered species of the Northern Long-Eared and Indiana Bat. Sign our letter opposing the Upper Mill Project.

Support endangered species on Endangered Species Day. Oppose the Upper Mill clearcutting project. www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

Friday, May 16 is Endangered Species Day!

Here are some ways you can celebrate #EndangeredSpeciesDay.

Learn more from our friends @endangered.

>>> endangeredspeciesday.org

Allegheny National Forest was originally 0.8% black cherry, but has been manipulated via herbicides, fencing, and clearcutting, and cherry now makes up more than 25% of the forest. Help oppose the Upper Mill clearcutting project... #nationalforests www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

Help us protect Mother Nature on Mother's Day! Support efforts to stop the Upper Mill clearcutting project on Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. This massive project = over 2,200 acres of clearcutting and 2,800 acres of herbicides. www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s... #nationalforests

By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation. Whereas, certain lands within the State of Pennsylvania have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the Act of Congress approve March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (36 Stat. 961), entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers"; and, Whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and setting apart said lands as a public forest reservation, and the same have been designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as the Allegheny National Forest. Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by virtually of the power in me vested by section eleven of said Act and by section twenty-four of the Act of March tree, eighteen hundred and ninety one (26 Stat. 1103), entitled "An act to repeal timber culture laws and for other purposes", do proclaim that there are herby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all of said lands within the area shown as the Allegheny National Forest on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and that all lands, therein which have been or may hereafter by acquired by the United States for National Forest purposes shall be permanently reserved and administered as part of the Allegheny National Forest. In Witness, thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord on thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-eighth. Calvin Coolidge.

The Allegheny National Forest was established in 1923 for watershed protection purposes...

The Trump Administration wants to clearcut 2,244 acres of Allegheny National Forest. This is an area the size of 1,683 football fields (including end zones)!! Help us to stop the Upper Mill Project: www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s... #nationalforests

The Trump Administration wants to clearcut 2,244 acres of Allegheny National Forest. This is an area the size of 1,683 football fields (including end zones)!! Help us to stop the Upper Mill Project: www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s... #nationalforests

House Republicans waited until the middle of the night to pass a measure that gives away millions of acres of public lands to private developers and oil and gas, mining, and logging corporations.

View from Minister Creek Overlook - Minister Creek Wilderness Study Area, Allegheny National Forest.

The view from Minister Creek Overlook - Minister Creek Wilderness Study Area, Allegheny National Forest. #nationalforests

Trump wants to clearcut Allegheny National Forest. Help us stop this by signing on in opposition to the Upper Mill Project. The project calls for 2,220 acres of clearcutting and 2,800 acres of herbicides in PA's only national forest. #nationalforests www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

Trump wants to clearcut Allegheny National Forest. Help us stop this by signing on in opposition to the Upper Mill Project. The project calls for 2,220 acres of clearcutting and 2,800 acres of herbicides in PA's only national forest. #nationalforests www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

You can help the #AlleghenyNationalForest today by signing onto this letter in opposition to the large Upper Mill Logging Project... www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...

survey showing overwhelming support across political spectrum for increasing or maintaining funding level for national parks and forests

basically no one wants to defund national parks - and even 3/4 of republicans want to maintain or even increase funding for national parks and forests

and yet there's basically no political cost for them doing this.

Photo of clearcut. Allegheny National Forest.

Trump wants to clearcut more of Pennsylvania's #AlleghenyNationalForest. Help us to protect it! www.alleghenyforest.org

Protect Allegheny National Forest. AMERICAN BEECH

. Beech Bark Disease causes mortality for American Beech trees. However, there is some genetic resistance to the disease. Logging does not stop American Beech mortality - it guarantees it. AlleghenyForest.org

Protect #AlleghenyNationalForest

Baby bird season is the best!


FORESTS ARE NOT FARMS Black Cherry is a fine tree but it made up only 0.8% of the native forest. Clearcutting, herbicides, and fertilizers have been used to farm for Black Cherry which now makes up more than 25% of the forest. 

OUR NATIONAL FOREST MUST NOT BE A TREE FARM! AlleghenyForest.org

#alleghenynationalforest www.alleghenyforest.org

We may not always agree with specific US Forest Service actions such as commercial timbering, but we support USFS employee rights as federal workers including their right to continue in a professional capacity within the agency. The current war on the federal workforce is unconscionable.

Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". COMMERCIAL LOGGING

 20 Years Ago the US Forest Service approved the massive East Side Project to "improve forest health". The result? Forest health is worse off - there are more disease complexes affecting trees and more trees are dying.

 HELP PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA'S ONLY NATIONAL FOREST! AlleghenyForest.org

Help Protect Pennsylvania's Only National Forest!! #alleghenynationalforest

Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest for "first health" SUGAR MAPLE DECLINE 

The only thing that guarantees sugar 
Maple decline is commercial logging. Clearcutting works against the goal of preserving forest health.
 
HELP PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA'S ONLY NATIONAL FOREST! AlleghenyForest.org

#AlleghenyNationalForest T

Happy Earth Day! With growing threats to Allegheny National Forest we are getting organized. Join us! alleghenyforest.org

Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". BLACK CHERRY DECLINE For 30 years the US Forest Service said they had to promote black cherry over other tree species because of health risks to those species. Black cherry only made up 0.8% of the native forest, but today makes up > 25% of the Allegheny. Now, black cherry is declining at faster rates than other tree species. 30 years of clearcutting hurt forest health. We don't need more clearcutting. AlleghenyForest.org

#alleghenynationalforest

#AlleghenyNationalForest

Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". EASTERN HEMLOCK The Woolly Adelgid is aggressively killing Eastern Hemlock. Logging does not prevent the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid from killing trees. Logging Guarantees that the trees will decline. Because they will be cut down. AlleghenyForest.org