Environment America launches public outreach campaign to protect older forests
Initiative to gather support for federal protections of old-growth, mature trees and forests
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. She sits on the Steering Committee of the Arctic Defense Campaign and co-coordinates the Climate Forests Campaign. Ellen previously worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign and managed grassroots campaign offices across the country. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
This country has an incredible legacy of protecting land, and we need to keep building on that
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
Bank of America said it would stop financing drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Now it’s backtracking.
Bank of America is walking back its commitment to not finance oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting this fragile ecosystem at risk.
500,000 people call for mature and old-growth forest protections
Activists gathered near Forest Service headquarters in D.C. to deliver comments calling for mature and old-growth forest protections.
Which big toilet paper brands are best for our forests?
Amazon, Costco, Walmart and other major toilet paper brands can and should do more to prevent forest degradation
We need to protect older forests and trees on public land
The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management should prohibit logging of older forests and trees on public lands and include forests as part of the solution to addressing the climate emergency, drought and wildlife extinction