Sample Letter to Boise Cascade Corporation

Your Name
Your Address

DATE:

George Harad
Chief Executive Officer
Boise Cascade Corporation
1111 W. Jefferson St.
Boise, ID 83728

Dear Mr. Harad:

I am writing to express my deep disappointment regarding Boise Cascade's destructive logging.

I understand that Boise Cascade is actively logging old growth forests in the U.S. and Canada, and is actually selling wood products that have been cut from our planet's most precious and rare forests in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Our culture no longer slaughters elephants for their ivory tusks; it is equally unacceptable to cut down old growth forests for 2x4's and office paper in this day and age.

(INSERT PERSONAL REASONS HERE - FAVORITE NATIONAL FOREST/OLD GROWTH FOREST, ETC.)

Your company's continued involvement in several anti-environmental initiatives is also unacceptable. Boise Cascade is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Roadless Area Protection Rule, which is supported by the vast majority of Americans. It also has pursued efforts to distribute misinformation to the American public regarding the effects of wildfire and its relationship to logging, and has sought to otherwise reduce the protections for our National Forests. It also continues to deny responsibility for the events in the Sierra Madre range of Mexico, in which prominent farmer-environmentalists were jailed and only recently have won their release.

I urge your company to commit to eliminate logging and selling old growth wood products and to phase out logging on U.S. public lands, and to cease all anti-environment public relations, lobbying, and litigation. Until your company makes these commitments, I will not support any business that carries Boise Cascade wood and paper products.

Sincerely,

(SIGNATURE)

John, Q. Sierra

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