Old-Growth Redwood Boycott

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is leading a boycott of old-growth redwood in an effort to secure protection of the nation’s remaining old-growth redwood forests. To launch the campaign, RAN, along with the Sierra Club and Greenpeace U.S.A., held a star-studded press conference in Los Angeles and ran a full-page advertisement in the

New York Times on February 10th. This was followed with letters to 7,000 lumber dealers, contractors, architects, and others who use or specify redwood asking them to pledge not to sell or use old-growth redwood. According to RAN, about 90% of redwood lumber sold as “clear-heart” comes from old-growth trees.