This video examines the progressively weakening and increasingly threatened circumstances of U.S. counties that host national forests. It was produced by the Not Without a Fight! Coalition, an informal group comprised of Shoshone County, Idaho’s county commissioners and three of the county’s four school district superintendents.
The Nature Conservancy posted this before-and-after photo in Montana’s Blackfoot Valley: With financial assistance from Montana’s Forests in Focus program they thinning dense forests to reduce the fuel available for potential fires while focusing work in the areas where homes meet the wildlands. These efforts are opening the forest, decreasing the chance that a fire…
Last year the Daily Caller News Foundation reported federal agencies paid out more than $49 million to special interest groups that exploit environmental laws to sue the U.S. government. As currently written, the Equal Access to Justice Act allows these groups to “sue and settle” and profit from these lawsuits at taxpayer expense. Environmental lawsuits…
Washington D.C. newspaper The Hill published our oped explaining why Congress should pass the Resilient Federal Forests Act to help restore the health of our federal forests and forested communities. You can urge your federal representatives to support this solution by clicking here. The 2017 wildfire season is reigniting a national discussion on the causes…
Note: This column originally appeared in the Redding Record-Searchlight, in response to this article. One doesn’t need to write 38 books about wildfire to understand that fuel loads influence the size and severity of forest fires. Decades of scientific research and practical on-the-ground experience strongly indicates that reducing fuel loads on the forests helps prevent…