Stop ClarcuttingCA is a grassroots campaign, committed for over a decade to educating the public about clearcutting. This widely used timber harvesting technique replaces forests with industrial monoculture tree farms. It degrades forest floor soil and watersheds, decreases biodiversity, threatens wildlife, increases wildfire danger, accelerates climate change, and promotes environmental injustice. It harms us all. Learn more.

The StopClearcutting CA team also fights to preserve our remaining old-growth and mature trees and to stop the global expansion of the wood pellet and biomass incineration industries. Rather than relying on aggressive forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk, we advocate for less harmful and more proven strategies, like home and community hardening. Visit our Resources page to explore the science, news, and more about these issues and more.

If you love forests and the natural world and like to write, apply your skills to help us protect them as part of our Writers Team. Work with our team to write letters to the editors responding to articles about the issues we care about, write op-eds, blogs, or supply public comments.

We train interested applicants for our team on how to write effective letters with a good chance of publication and provide them with resources to assist them.

Successful members have some of the following qualities:

• Knowledge about forests, the issues that threaten them, government agencies that regulate forest management, or a willingness to learn
• A background about and love for writing
• Passion and commitment

How we communicate: Quarterly virtual meetings and one-to-one email exchanges Time Commitment: Whatever you can give us

Check out our Published LTES & Op-Eds, and Blogs