Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance
The Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance is a network of organizations and activists working at the intersection of Forest Defense and Climate Justice.[1]
Guiding Principles
1) Forest Defense is Community Defense: We work together in defense of the Pacific Northwest communities and ecosystems, as we recognize their health and wellbeing are fundamentally interconnected.
2) Forest Defense is Climate Defense: Our work is driven by the important role forests play in mitigating the climate crisis, and creating climate resilient communities.
3) Solidarity with Frontline Communities: We support action taken by Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and other frontline communities to combat the climate crisis. We take guidance from traditional land stewards to inform our advocacy.
4) Transformation, not Reformation: We work to transform, not reform the imbalanced and unfair systems that drive the destruction of forests and forest-dependent communities — both human and non-human. This will require a shift away from industrial logging.
5) Embrace Real Solutions: We reject unproven and dangerous practices that distract and misdirect resources from real solutions. Effective and enduring solutions will come from a fundamental transformation away from the extractive systems that have brought us to disaster.
6) End Corporate Exploitation: We must end ecologically destructive logging, restore landscapes and protect ecologically significant places.
7) Advance a Just Transition: We support workers and rural communities in a just transition towards a life-affirming economy.
Working Groups
Wildfire | Green New Deal for Pacific Northwest Forests | Federal Landscape | Washington State Lands | Field Surveying | Divest Wall Street Forestry
Member Organizations
350 Eugene | 350 PDX | 350 Seattle | 350 Washington County | Advocates for Forest Carbon | Animal Fire Theatre | Applegate Neighborhood Network | Bark | Beyond Toxics | Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project
Breach Collective | Cascadia Forest Defenders | Cascadia Climate Action Now | Cascadia Wildlands | CedarAction | Center for Earth Ethics | Center for Responsible Forestry | Clackamas Indivisible
Climate Reality Project | Climate Action Coalition | Climate Justice League | Coast Range Association | Cooper Crest Forest Defenders | Crag Law Center | Deer Creek Association
DSA (PDX) | DSA (Salem) | DSA (Tacoma/Pierce County) | Douglas Country Global Warming Coalition | Earth Law Center | Ecosystem Restoration Artistry Systems | Emergency Conservation Committee PNW
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) | Extinction Rebellion (Bellingham) | Extinction Rebellion (Portland) | Families for a Livable Climate | Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE)
Forest Web | Friends of the Clearwater | Friends of Trees | Friends of OSU Old Growth | FutureWise | Great Old Broads for Oregon, Bitterbrush Chapter | Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Cascade Volcano Chapter
Green Cove Defense Committee | Green Snohomish | Interfaith Earthkeepers of Eugene/Springfield | John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute | Kitsap Environmental Coalition | Klamath Forest Alliance
Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center | Lane County Audubon Society | Lane County Mutual Aid | Lorax Coalition | Metro Climate Action Team | Mid-Valley Solidarity Coalition | Olympic Climate Action
Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | Oregon Wild | Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility | Pacific Rivers | Portland Rising Tide | Progressive Dems of America, Oregon Chapter
Sasquatch Woods People | Sierra Club | Oregon Chapter Sierra Club | Illinois Valley Section Sierra Club | Summit Lake Alliance | Sunrise Beaverton | Sunrise Eugene | Sunrise PDX | Sunrise Redding
Thurston Climate Action Team | UO Climate Justice League | Umpqua Watersheds | Water League | Whatcom Million Trees Project | Wild Heritage Foundation | Williams Community Forest Project
Social Media
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook