Maine's forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change! They absorb 60% of the state’s annual greenhouse gas emissions and also protect biodiversity.  
 
LD 993 is a bill to establish a Forest Advisory Board for Maine. 

A Forest Advisory Board would bring together a variety of viewpoints – loggers and biologists, commercial landowners and indigenous tribes, sportsmen and ecologists – to share information, facilitate public input, look at the forest comprehensively, and advise the Maine Forest Service on policies to keep our forests healthy, intact, and productive. 
 
LD 993 has just been voted on and passed in the Maine legislature. Governor Mills vetoed this bill in the past. Now is the time to write Gov. Mills and/or a letter to the editor in favor of this bill (tips and links here).
 
Want more information or talking points? Check out this link. You can also "share your opinion" with the Governor on this online form.

Then go to the MUUSAN website and click on the button I Took Action to report your action.
 
Thank you SO much for taking the time for this important Climate Action!
 
MUUSAN's Climate Action Issue Group
MUUSAN is a statewide advocacy and public policy network anchored in our Unitarian Universalist faith and animated by its principles. MUUSAN welcomes as partners and collaborators all those who share our values. We link our 26 Maine congregations and many friends in an active legislative ministry.