Monthly Archives: April 2022

Chuck Leavell and Tom Martin: Let’s Not Let Smoke Cloud Our Vision or Our Will

By Chuck Leavell, Owner of Charlane Woodlands and Keyboardist with The Rolling Stones; and Tom Martin, former President and CEO of The American Forest Foundation As we celebrate another Earth Day we can take pride in the conservation progress of the last half-century. Our nation is a richer, safer place with abundant wild places to…

Locking up forests for carbon storage not so clear cut

Of the 193 million acres of National Forest System (NFS) lands, less than half (45 percent) are unreserved and available for forest management and timber harvest. The rest are either permanently set aside as Congressionally-designated wilderness areas or national monuments or are “inventoried roadless areas” where management is prohibitive. For a coalition of anti-forestry groups, that 45…