{"id":570,"date":"2026-02-16T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/?p=570"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:41:30","slug":"pining-for-protection-conservationist-urge-forest-service-to-account-for-threats-to-white-pines-in-santa-fe-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/pining-for-protection-conservationist-urge-forest-service-to-account-for-threats-to-white-pines-in-santa-fe-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pining for Protection: Conservationist urges Forest Service to account for threats to white pines in Santa Fe National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upgrading the Santa Fe National Forest plan to protect whites pines is tragically a &#8220;low priority&#8221; according to this February 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/santa-fe-national-forest-pine-species-under-threat-but-protections-remain-informal\/article_f8d43ebe-9391-441d-b3cf-8d9a14ae3e99.html\">article<\/a>  in the Santa Fe New Mexican. The top priority mandated by the Trump administration is logging in roadless areas and on steep slopes where the last big trees remain. New Mexico pioneering conservationist Aldo Leopold\u2019s love of white pines should be the guiding light for forest managers, not the decrees of Trump\u2019s timber bullies. Tell Supervisor Shaun Sanchez of the Santa Fe National Forest to preserve white pines by amending the forest plan to be consistent with the plans of other national forests in the Southwest. \u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:shaun.Sanchez@usda.gov\">Shaun.Sanchez@usda.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/White-Pine-story_New-Mexican_021426-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of White Pine story_New Mexican_021426.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b857d7df-cb7b-48a7-980d-454bf5eca10b\" href=\"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/White-Pine-story_New-Mexican_021426-1.pdf\">White Pine story_New Mexican_021426<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/White-Pine-story_New-Mexican_021426-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b857d7df-cb7b-48a7-980d-454bf5eca10b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading the Santa Fe National Forest plan to protect whites pines is tragically a &#8220;low priority&#8221; according to this February 14 article in the Santa &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-santa-fe-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafeforestcoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}