PCS and other unions will be holding a drop-in briefing for politicians - and urge everyone who supports saving the forests to write to their MP asking them to attend and to sign a parliamentary motion about the issue.
More than 494,000 people have already signed a petition on the 38 degrees campaigning website against the sell-off.
Last week senior Scottish politicians joined a protest in Edinburgh after it was announced that 150 jobs are under threat at the commission HQ in the city - and 300 more in England.
So far 47 MPs from five different parties have signed an early day motion – a type of parliamentary petition - expressing “alarm” at the plans.
The motion says environmental and public health initiatives will be put in jeopardy by the sell-off and adds there is evidence that rights of way have been lost under private ownership of former Forestry Commission land.
The briefings for MPs will be in room W1 at the House of Commons, between 10.30am and noon on Wednesday 16 February.
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