"Native Forest Council is an American environmental organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of all publicly owned natural resources from destructive practices, sales, and all resource extraction. Commercial timber sales, grazing, mining, and oil and gas extraction all contribute to the destruction and degradation of air quality, wildlife habitat, and of our wilderness areas. We believe a sound economy and a sound environment need not be incompatible, and that current land management practices are devastating to both."
"The Native Forest Council has done more to alert the nation's public, to nationalize and move the primeval, native forest issue forward than any other organization I know of." - David Brower, former Executive Director, Sierra Club.
The Native Forest Council continues to build strong coalitions for a non-compromising economic, social, and environmental solutions. It serves as a powerful information clearing-house for the media and the forest movement. Its Forest Voice newsletter is read by activists all over the country. Hermach continues his work for the total protection of 650 million acres (2,600,000 km2) of federally owned public land, rivers, and streams. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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