Governors:

Please rewild our States and Provinces. Using Washington State as an example with its 45 million acres, the US owns four times the State’s public forested acreage – 12 million vs. 3 million. Of the latter, DNR logs ~100,000 acres annually. Governor, before you retire, using the Farm & Garden’s unique Cascadia/Rocky Mountain Floristic Region’s 900 native plant species list:

• Replant 30% or 30,000 acres of each year’s DNR clear-cut lands with at least 450 native species, rather than a single (1) cloned Douglas Fir;
• Ask the Federal Governments to do the same on 120,000 acres without herbicides, cattle grazing, or clear-cutting annually;
• Seek voluntary connecting easements from private owners for public recreational access (and corridors of biodiversity for wildlife); and
• End the easily predicted extinction of our native plant (and the animals who depend on them) species.

It would be a small first step; in 100 years, the West could meet both Canada and the U.S. National 30×30 challenges. If you all were to replant all acres harvested this year, it would take but 30 years to rewild the West. We’d best Scotland and, for eternity, be a beacon to future generations.  Many of you would see these happenings in your lifetimes.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45688.pdf (3rd paragraph, page 2)
https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding…/rewilding-scotland
https://www.yahoo.com/…/harvards-modern-day-darwin…
https://variety.com/…/william-shatner-space-boldly-go…/

And why not insist that all State and Federal governments, on the West’s land owned by the public, stop their logging, grazing, poisoning and exploitation activities?  Why not shuffle the cards and re-deal now that we can see the effects on global warming, species extinctions, and the poisoning of our nest?  Set the path … plan to take 10, 30 or 100 years (allowing the next generations to tweak this new direction).  It is the right thing to do.

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