I was excited when the Biden administration took a step that could become one of the most significant public lands conservation actions in recent memory: issuing an executive order to conserve old-growth and mature forests across federal lands. …The agency has an opportunity to meet that goal and fulfill its conservation responsibility, but only if it enacts a national old-growth amendment that provides strong management standards that retain and grow our oldest forests. The stakes are too high to miss this opportunity. …We can grow our economy by keeping our national forests standing rather than turning them into wood products or paper. National forests produce just a small fraction of the country’s wood supply — nearly 90% comes from privately held forests. …As the amendment is currently written, it allows for loopholes to commercially log old growth and does not set meaningful protections for mature trees.