The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life: COEJL
Forest Protection position
published in COEJL,
Winter, 2000 Newsletter
COEJL believes that public lands should be managed to preserve and restore biological diversity, and that government should not subsidize logging, mining, or grazing on public lands.
Furthermore, we believe such activities should be immediately suspended in all old-growth forests and other threatened habitats on public lands.
The protection of roadless areas is a necessary step in achieving these objectives. COEJL has actively supported the end of logging in roadless areas in national forests, the end of subsidies for road-building in national forests, and strict enforcement of the Endangered Species Act to protect endangered forest habitats on both public and private lands.
The S. F. Bay Area Coalition
on the Environment and Jewish Life
Statement:
In accordance with our biblical mandate to “serve and protect” God’s creation, and with the position of our parent organization, COEJL, that “public lands should be managed to preserve and restore biological diversity,” we endorse the following objectives....
- the immediate end to all cutting of ancient and old growth forests,
- the end of commercial logging on public lands,
- the redirection of taxpayer industry subsidies into forest restoration and restoration jobs.
