Note: This article was provided to us by the National Association of State Foresters The COVID-19 pandemic has produced the largest economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. During the Great Recession of 2008, America’s real GDP declined by 8.4% during the second quarter of 2008. A recent estimate by the Federal…
Note: The following is a news release from New Mexico Forest Industry Association An ongoing lawsuit brought by a Santa Fe environmental group has led to the closure of several rural New Mexico businesses, threatening the long-term health of the state’s watersheds and causing a firewood shortage for the state’s most vulnerable communities. The lawsuit,…
Our friends at Communities for Healthy Forests, Inc. have released the results from a recently conducted statewide poll conducted by the Portland based independent, nonpartisan opinion research firm DHM Research. The goal of the survey was to assess Oregonians’ opinions about how to manage federal forests in Oregon to prevent severe wildfires and what to…
“Paperwork protests” are keeping the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from reducing wildfire and smoke risks on public lands, and providing sustainable timber harvests to support jobs. The good news is the BLM is proposing to modernize its forest management rules for the first time in 35 years. These rules provide an alternative to the paperwork protests…