To discuss the state of the nation’s forests last
year, the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation met for
several days on the California coast in the shadow of giant redwood
forests. The campaign leaders emerged with a unified voice, calling
for an end to the logging of old-growth forests and an end to
commercial logging on all public lands. The group, a coalition of
Christians and Jews, asks also for an end to logging and
roadbuilding subsidies that feed the “corporate appetite for more
trees and greater profits.” Says the campaign’s Frederick Krueger:
“For religious reasons, not environmental reasons, we’re making
this call. Religion in the modern era has broken the circle because
of its failure to have an integrated relation to God, creation and
people.” The group has met with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
and Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and has published a list of
“Twelve Ways You Can Help Save Our Forests.” The group is now
recruiting people to sign its Forest Conservation Pledge.
For details, contact Frederick Krueger,
Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation, 409 Mendocino Ave.,
Suite A, Santa Rosa, CA 95401-8513 (707/573-3162).
*Dustin
Solberg
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Speaking out for God’s forests.
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