Monthly Archives: December 2020

Climate Benefits of Forest Management and Harvested Wood Products

In a recent letter to congressional leadership, dozens of scientists urged policymakers to support legislative proposals recognizing forest management and wood utilization as part of the solution to climate change. Their research found wood and wood products, when appropriately deployed, can reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment, transportation, and manufacturing sectors, “with…

Fuel Reduction Success Story on the Badger Fire

The following is an informational release from the Klamath National Forest and Cal Fire. In the afternoon of July 18, 2020, two fires were reported within the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Siskiyou Unit’s direct fire protection area in the area of Hawkinsville/Humbug, just north of Yreka, California. Weather conditions were…

Severe fires are taking a toll on our forests, wildlife

Annual land area burned by severe wildfires in the western United States has grown eight times larger in less than four decades. Roughly 210,000 acres burned in 2017, up from 26,000 acres in 1985, in high severity fires that kill more than 95 percent of trees in their path, according to a new study by the U.S.…