A woodland caribou picks its way through boreal forest that’s stood untouched for centuries. It paws through the snow for lichen, quietly tucked away in the dense old growth, out of reach from the wolves and bears that patrol the forest edge.

But then the logging trucks show up.

Every year, one million acres of the North American boreal forest are chopped down -- and every year, the caribou has less and less forest to call home.

Every stack of lumber at a hardware store is a choice, and Ace Hardware has the power to make that choice the right one.

Tell Ace Hardware: Don’t log the boreal forest.

The North American boreal is the largest remaining intact forest in the world -- and it’s alive in every direction.

Towering spruce, pine and fir trees stretch high up into the sky. Below, their signature blue-green needles pile softly on the forest floor. Icons of the Canadian wild -- grizzly bears, beavers, moose -- roam freely over moss-covered logs and half-frozen streams. Come wintertime, three to five billion birds rise out of the forest’s silvery mist and fly south.

But that lively world is disappearing. Each minute, we lose more than a football field’s worth of this forest.

Ace Hardware doesn't have to be a part of that story. Will you ask Ace Hardware to promise to protect the boreal today?

As one of the country’s biggest home improvement retailers, Ace Hardware has the power to protect the boreal by making sure its wood never comes from this irreplaceable ecosystem.

A simple public promise -- to never source wood from the undisturbed North American boreal forest -- would cost Ace nothing. It could also inspire other major retailers to do the same.

For the herds of caribou, the packs of wolves and the families of bears, we’re calling on Ace to make that pledge.

Tell Ace Hardware: Commit to never sourcing wood from the boreal.

Thank you,

Environmental Action