I am a fourth-generation Mainer. My parents are from the heavily forested regions of Maine: Rumford and East Millinocket. As a nurse practitioner, I’ve spent decades caring for human beings with health issues. I believe, as Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “all flourishing is mutual.”

Unfortunately, the “Fix Our Forests Act” does the opposite. It will not diminish wildfires but, if passed by the Senate, will actually allow logging on our oldest, most fire-resistant trees. For the sake of my children and my six young grandchildren, I implore Sen. King and Sen. Collins to recognize that the “Fix Our Forests Act” will actually harm our beautiful Maine forests. Instead, its goal is to benefit the extractive logging industry, whose single motive is profit.

I urge Sens. King and Collins to please protect our glorious forest ecosystem and vote “no” on the “Fix Our Forests Act.” The name itself is an exercise in deception.

Deborah Boyle
Cape Elizabeth