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Allegheny Forest Defense Project
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Help us to defend and protect Allegheny National Forest! http://www.alleghenyforest.org
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Help protect our #nationalforests! www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...
Allegheny Forest Flare: Active Threat. The Upper Mill Project. Plans to log > 2,000 acres. Widespread herbicide use on > 2,800 acres. Endangered bat habitat destruction. Sediment will threaten waterway health.
May 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Endangered Species Day. May 16, 2025. Join us in advocating for our locally threatened wildlife species who call the Allegheny National Forest home. www.alleghenyforest.org #nationalforests
Endangered Species Day. May 16, 2025. Join us in advocating for our locally threatened wildlife species who call the Allegheny National Forest home.
May 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Support endangered species on Endangered Species Day. Oppose the Upper Mill clearcutting project. www.alleghenyforest.org/upper-mill-s...
Endangered Species Day 2025. Join Our fight for clean waterways for the Eastern Hellbender Salamander and freshwater mussels. Advocate for our endangered species of the Northern Long-Eared and Indiana Bat. Sign our letter opposing the Upper Mill Project.
May 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The Allegheny National Forest was established in 1923 for watershed protection purposes...
By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation. Whereas, certain lands within the State of Pennsylvania have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the Act of Congress approve March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (36 Stat. 961), entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers"; and, Whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and setting apart said lands as a public forest reservation, and the same have been designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as the Allegheny National Forest. Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by virtually of the power in me vested by section eleven of said Act and by section twenty-four of the Act of March tree, eighteen hundred and ninety one (26 Stat. 1103), entitled "An act to repeal timber culture laws and for other purposes", do proclaim that there are herby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all of said lands within the area shown as the Allegheny National Forest on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and that all lands, therein which have been or may hereafter by acquired by the United States for National Forest purposes shall be permanently reserved and administered as part of the Allegheny National Forest. In Witness, thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord on thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-eighth. Calvin Coolidge.
May 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The view from Minister Creek Overlook - Minister Creek Wilderness Study Area, Allegheny National Forest. #nationalforests
View from Minister Creek Overlook - Minister Creek Wilderness Study Area, Allegheny National Forest.
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Trump wants to clearcut more of Pennsylvania's #AlleghenyNationalForest. Help us to protect it! www.alleghenyforest.org
Photo of clearcut. Allegheny National Forest.
April 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Protect #AlleghenyNationalForest
Protect Allegheny National Forest. AMERICAN BEECH

. Beech Bark Disease causes mortality for American Beech trees. However, there is some genetic resistance to the disease. Logging does not stop American Beech mortality - it guarantees it. AlleghenyForest.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#alleghenynationalforest www.alleghenyforest.org

FORESTS ARE NOT FARMS Black Cherry is a fine tree but it made up only 0.8% of the native forest. Clearcutting, herbicides, and fertilizers have been used to farm for Black Cherry which now makes up more than 25% of the forest. 

OUR NATIONAL FOREST MUST NOT BE A TREE FARM! AlleghenyForest.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Help Protect Pennsylvania's Only National Forest!! #alleghenynationalforest
Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". COMMERCIAL LOGGING

 20 Years Ago the US Forest Service approved the massive East Side Project to "improve forest health". The result? Forest health is worse off - there are more disease complexes affecting trees and more trees are dying.

 HELP PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA'S ONLY NATIONAL FOREST! AlleghenyForest.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest for "first health" SUGAR MAPLE DECLINE 

The only thing that guarantees sugar 
Maple decline is commercial logging. Clearcutting works against the goal of preserving forest health.
 
HELP PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA'S ONLY NATIONAL FOREST! AlleghenyForest.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#alleghenynationalforest
Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". BLACK CHERRY DECLINE For 30 years the US Forest Service said they had to promote black cherry over other tree species because of health risks to those species. Black cherry only made up 0.8% of the native forest, but today makes up > 25% of the Allegheny. Now, black cherry is declining at faster rates than other tree species. 30 years of clearcutting hurt forest health. We don't need more clearcutting. AlleghenyForest.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Trump wants to clearcut the Allegheny National Forest 
for "forest health". EASTERN HEMLOCK The Woolly Adelgid is aggressively killing Eastern Hemlock. Logging does not prevent the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid from killing trees. Logging Guarantees that the trees will decline. Because they will be cut down. AlleghenyForest.org
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Upload Bog, #AlleghenyNationalForest
Photo of upland Bog, Allegheny National Forest.
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Most of the Allegheny National Forest is managed for clearcut logging (in red). This over-emphasis on clearcutting is inconsistent with the reason the forest was created in 1923 - watershed protection!
Map of Allegheny National Forest highlighting management focus for different areas.
April 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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In 1923, The Allegheny National Forest was established for watershed protection. Today, the Trump administration wants to clearcut most of Pennsylvania's only national forest for "forest health". Join us in putting a stop to this. www.alleghenyforest.org/contact/
Proclamation establishing the Allegheny National Forest.
April 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM