Washington, D.C. — More than 400 associations, businesses, and landowners representing the forest products sector have signed a joint letter to President Donald J. Trump urging immediate action to address an escalating crisis threatening America’s timber supply, rural economies, and energy security. The effort, led by the Forest Landowners Association, the American Biomass Energy Association, and the American Loggers Council, underscores the urgency of stabilizing the American forest sector and its access to markets in the face of mounting mill closures, devastating natural disasters, and unfair foreign trade practices. The letter follows President Trump’s Executive Order directing federal agencies to boost domestic timber and wood product production. Signatories warn that without decisive action, the nation risks losing its forestland base, critical markets, and millions of [forest dependent] jobs. …The coalition stresses that America’s 3.9 million forestry-supported jobs, along with the nation’s housing supply, infrastructure, consumer products, energy independence, and national security, depend on strong working forests.