Daily Archives: July 23, 2020

Forest management is for the birds (and many other wildlife)

This month American Wildlife Conservation Partners (representing the country’s top 50 hunting conservation organizations) released a report recommending specific actions that can be taken to improve wildlife conservation and management in the United States. Their Wildlife for the 21st Century: Volume VI can be found here.  Among the recommendations is the need to increase active forest management on…

Frank Carroll: ‘Managed Fire’ and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Note: Frank Carroll contributed the following article to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. Forest Service supervisors in Utah are enforcing a moratorium on “managed wildfires” in 2020, this terrible year of the pandemic “wildfire” that so affects all aspects of our lives. The thinking is that Covid19 is putting enough pressure on hard working firefighters without…