Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities is pleased to announce that it has joined the Wisconsin Young Forest Partnership (WYFP), and Steve Kariainen, HFHC’s Great Lakes Region Director will serve on WYFP’s steering committee. The WYFP was organized in December 2013 to more broadly promote young forest habitat conservation and enhance this resource across the state. For…
This is the second interview in our series in partnership with Evergreen Magazine: The Evergreen Foundation Emily, from Seattle, discusses wildfire and climate change with a unique perspective having grown up near Paradise, CA and now as a resident of Seattle. She sees forest management as a key tool in wildfire prevention, and the need…
We’ve joined forces with Evergreen Magazine to announce the first of our new Man on the Street interview series. These are a collection of interviews, offering both urban and rural viewpoints- aimed at exploring the public perception of wildfire, forest management, stewardship of public lands, and forest-to-community health. Dottie, a retired USFS employee and resident…
In May, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced S. 1262. This matters to Southern Oregon because it expands the Wild Rogue Wilderness by 60,000-acres and creates a 98,000-acre recreation area adjacent to the existing Wild Rogue Wilderness Area (maps available here). These public lands are near several communities that have been identified as being at high…
The alternating sunny warm weather interspersed with soaking rains has made for the most prodigious crop of grass and brush on the landscape that I have seen in decades. Coupled with that, the signs from the flora and fauna are that summer is coming early and will be long and very hot! The combination of…
Anna Yarbrough, a forester, contributed the following article in light of a proposed tax increase in the Oregon Legislature. We appreciate her willingness to allow us to publish the following, which first appeared on her Facebook page: First, let me preface this by saying I come from a family of educators and I 100% support…
Please join the editor of Scorched: Wildfires The New Normal Hell NO™ for a Clean Air Rally – Saturday, June 1, 2019 Medford, Oregon Click here to download flyer Another Summer of Smoke is Inevitable! Your Voice Must Be Heard – It’s Time To March! The State of Oregon MUST act – Our Lives Depend…
by Steve Kariainen: HFHC Great Lakes Director The following is taken from a newspaper op-ed entitled, “Earth Day – A Day to Celebrate Forestry!” that I wrote a couple years ago while doing some work for Forest Resources Association: Earth Day – an event celebrated worldwide each year on April 22nd – has its roots…
Jacob Steensen is a forester of Coos Bay, Ore. He allowed us to share this perspective on the recent closure of a mill in his community. With the closure of Georgia Pacific’s mill in Coos Bay Oregon, many Coos County residents and employees are asking “Why?”. The reasons for the closure provided by leadership at…
Rachel Lee Hall previously contributed her Forest Under Stress research here. Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities thanks her again for allowing us to share this follow-up to her work: I am a long time resident of Oregon and a citizens advocate for forest policy change from passive forest management (management by nature or hands-off) to active…