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The Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation is a coalition of Christian and Jewish
denominations and organizations which promote an end to the cutting of old growth forests
and an end to commercial logging on public lands.
Our purpose is to promote a religious ethic of forests. This will teach respect for the forests, increase understanding of the many non-economic values of forest lands, work to restore lands which have been damaged through the careless practices of commercial logging companies, and encourage citizen activism to preserve our public forests. To accomplish these related purposes, we offer a number of programs. These include study materials for church groups, a pledge program to help volunteers promote forest conservation, a Washington Week program during which dozens of people travel to Washington DC to educate legislators and Administration officials so that they can better understand the ethics of forest conservation, and a volunteer field representative program to help recruit new conservation around the country. An information service aids religious organizations in development on why a variety of religious groups support forest conservation. Other services include a sponsorship program, by which new organizations can affiliate with our organization, an awards program by which we honor several outstanding individuals annually with our "Steward of the Forest" award, and a press release program by which we comment on national issues of forest conservation. We publish a biannual newsletter which focuses upon the news of ethics and forests, and this is supplemented with a biannual magazine, Religion and the Forests, which articulates the moral and ethical values of forest conservation. A new program will encourage reduction of new paper consumption. If we can reduce new paper consumption by only 2% nationally, this would result in a savings in trees equivalent to all the national forests cut in one year. Additionally we will soon begin a youth program to help young people replant areas degraded by harmful forestry practices. We will also open a Jewish office in San Francisco by spring time which will focus entirely upon recruiting Jewish organizations into forest conservation. Link here to our partial list of sponsors Please visit our website: http://www.creationethics.org |
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