The following white paper comes from Bruce Courtright at the National Wildfire Institute. The intent of this brief is to ask for your immediate action to help halt what is becoming the demise of America’s natural resource treasures. The public lands are especially at risk. Specifically, we need your immediate help to support new legislation and…
By DeAnn Stish, Healthy Forests Healthy Communities Great Lakes Coalition partner Minnesotans care about their forests, and our national forests are an important part of that equation. How forests are managed impacts everything from wildlife, water and air quality, climate change, and our economy. Two years ago, a coalition was launched in the Great Lakes…
By Anna Morrison, Oregon Women in Timber Andy, Andy, Andy, I just finished reading your 8/14/17 Oregon Wild Blog about your interpretation of the “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017. Lies, Lies, and more Lies. When are you going to start being truthful with the public about your real agenda to lock up all federal…
Last week Congressman Bruce Westerman, author of the Resilient Federal Forests Act, was briefed on Northwest forestry issues during a tour of Idaho sawmills and logging sites. He met with Idaho Forest Group’s Marc Brinkmeyer following a day and a half tour to see latest the milling technology at their Lewiston and Chilco mills. The…
Note: This column by Ed Regan originally appeared in the Independent-Record. Recent wildfires on the Lewis and Clark National Forests are illustrating the consequences of the “Cottonwood” case that is halting forest health projects throughout Montana. Once again the case comes at the expense of our forests, wildlife and communities. Both the Park Creek and…
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…