Legacy Forest Defense Coalition

The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition was founded to draw public attention to the destruction of our publicly owned legacy forests, and build support for their conservation, through research, education, litigation, and advocacy.

Mature and old growth forests in Southwestern Washington and areas surrounding Puget Sound are rapidly disappearing, as the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) auctions them off to private timber companies. The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to stopping the senseless clearcutting of these last few remaining mature, lowland forests.

We are working to accomplish this goal in several ways:

• Conducting field surveys to identify rare and imperiled plant communities
• Working with local elected officials and communities to build support for the protection of our publicly owned legacy forests
• Working with top attorneys to challenge the legality of DNR timber sales in court
• Working with DNR to change the way the agency manages public forest lands
• Testifying at Board of Natural Resources meetings
• Social media campaign focused on educating the public about individual timber sales