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Help save California’s Giant Sequoias!

Where is The Lorax when we need him?

California’s Giant Sequoia trees are among the largest and oldest forms of life on this planet. It is hard to believe that any members of the short-lived species, Homo sapiens (yes, oddly enough, “sapiens” means “wise”) would want to harm the comparatively few that REMAIN.

But corporate greed is one of those things, like human stupidity, that seems to have no limits.

OVER HALF of the remaining Giant Sequoia trees are within the boundaries of the Giant Sequoia National Monument, which President Clinton created to protect and restore the groves from intensive industrial logging. The Giant Sequoia National Monument “includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves that are located in the Sequoia National Forest, about half of the sequoia groves currently in existence, including one of the ten largest Giant Sequoias, the Boole Tree, which is 269 feet (82 m) high with a base circumference of 112 feet (38 m). The forest covers 824 square miles (1,326 square kilometers).”

The trees within the Sequoia National Monument are now facing destructive logging! The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is now considering a Draft Management Plan and several Alternatives that would allow the LOGGING of smaller trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument upon which the Giant Sequoias depend for water retention and protection against erosion, disrupting the ecosystem in which the Giant Sequoias have lived for so long.

Who knows? After the removal of the smaller trees damages the Giant Sequoias, I would fully expect to see the lumber industry agitate for logging the Sequoias, too! Hey, they suppressed the televising of The Lorax, Dr. Seuss‘s cartoon to educate children (and some adults, too)!

You can help by sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack to protect the Giant Sequoia National Monument and ask that it be managed like the adjacent Sequoia National Park. (And please fix the typo in “mandates” in the letter that you send. :-) )

Please take action BEFORE THIS FRIDAY, December 3, 2010.

Future generations of the world’s children thank you in advance.

-Bill at

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