Alyssa & Michael O’Brien, co-founders of Protect Ancient Forests, make the case for working together to protect our remaining old-growth and mature public forests — why they’re irreplaceable, how policy shapes their fate, and what it looks like to build a movement on their behalf. Drawing on law, education, and deep roots in the Maine landscape, they’ll invite us to join them.

Alyssa O’Brien brings a background in psychology and elementary education to her conviction that caring for the natural world is something we do on behalf of future generations; Michael O’Brien holds a JD from the University of Maine School of Law and spent years as a nonpartisan policy analyst for the Maine Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee. Together, from their home on the coast of Maine, they co-founded Protect Ancient Forests to build the broad coalitions they believe are necessary to permanently protect what remains.

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