TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO PROTECT OUR GIANT SEQUOIAS
| GIVE TODAY Dear friend, We have 11 days to save the 3,200-year-old trees in California's Giant Sequoia National Monument -- which stand nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty and represent 2/3 of the remaining Sequoia trees ON EARTH. July 10 is the FINAL deadline to fight back against Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposed "review" of 27 iconic national monuments, including our own Giant Sequoia. It's unbelievable that protecting them is even a question. Trump and Zinke want to open them up to Timber companies who will come with the chainsaws for the majestic Sequoias -- some as old as Egypt's pyramids -- to log and drill unencumbered by federal protections. Once they are cut to the ground, they are gone forever. We need your help to stop Trump, Zinke and Congress -- by mobilizing supporters and stepping up the pressure on lawmakers to stop Trump and his cronies before they destroy 3,200 years of natural history. But with the deadline so close, we have to fight back now. Please, rush your emergency monthly gift by MIDNIGHT tomorrow. Please become a monthly donor for $5 or more to help us reach our June 30 goal of 500 new monthly donors and scale up our outreach efforts in time for the public comment deadline. It's up to us to save the Giant Sequoias from Trump's poison pen. We have a lot of practice -- I'm talking decades -- fighting for the Giant Sequoias. We've faced down the logging industry and their well-financed lawyers and lobbyists. We've battled -- and defeated -- U.S. Forest Service plans to allow logging that would endanger the monument's fragile ecosystems. Still, we've never come up against someone quite like Donald Trump, who appears willing to bend any law and decimate every natural treasure if it placates the major corporate interests who funneled almost $11 million into his inaugural coffers. Friend, you and I, right now, are all that's standing between the Giant Sequoias and those giant saws and drills. If we fall short of our crucial June 30 fundraising goal, we risk losing our irreplaceable Sequoia groves forever. Please, rush your monthly donation to the Sierra Club now. Help us save the Sequoias from Trump's unprecedented power grab before it's too late. Thank you for all you are doing to protect our national monuments and the wildlife, tribal communities and neighboring economies who depend on the Antiquities Act's critical protections to endure. With your help, we will save the Sequoias, the San Gabriel Mountains, Gold Butte and other iconic American treasures for our children and grandchildren -- hopefully, even, for another 32 centuries. Awaiting your swift response, Michael Brune Executive Director Sierra Club P.S. -- If you've recently become a monthly donor, THANK YOU, we're still processing gifts. Image: Creative Commons/John Buie |