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To save and create wild forests, big and small, in New England in the knowledge that “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” To protect, restore, and maintain viable populations of native species in New England in perpetuity. To support ecologically sound forestry and the value-added production of high quality wood products in New England for a strong and diversified rural economy. To design and create a system of ecological reserves that incorporate federal, state, and private lands in New England to protect the natural function of ecosystems and sustainable human communities. To expand and mobilize Vermont and New England's grass-roots environmental constituency. To provide a network that will bring together members of the environmental and scientific communities and the interested public to formulate and articulate a long-range comprehensive strategy for the future of forest ecosystems. To enforce laws and regulations that serve the goals of Forest Watch, including, but not limited to, the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act, and the Endangered Species Act. To foster research on ecosystem and species requirements, potentials, and threats; and to rely on existing resources of the environmental and scientific community and seek to provide services when not sufficiently available. To promote public land management that serves the will of the people and the goals of Forest Watch. To mobilize citizens and other groups to watch over and report on forest conditions and practices.
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