Monthly Archives: October 2025

Forest Under Stress | Respiration & Filtered Sunlight- Rachel Lee Hall

In this special presentation, Rachel Lee Hall of Forest Under Stress captures what she calls the forest’s “breathing system”—the cycle of sunlight, air, and moisture that sustains life on the forest floor.  The images in this presentation tell the story of forests losing their ability to breathe under decades of overcrowding, and how science-based management…

Video: This is What Happens When Wildfires Burn Again and Again

When wildfires strike our national forests, what happens next determines their future. In Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, the 1996 Charlton Fire burned inside a designated Wilderness area where no trees could be salvaged or replanted. Decades later, it continues to reburn, destroying soil, releasing carbon, and turning forestland into wasteland. Just miles away, the Shady…

The Deadman Fuels Treatment Project: When Prevention Met the Fire Line

When a lightning strike sparked the Katy Creek Fire in northeast Washington, firefighters found themselves facing a landscape that, like much of the West, had gone a century without a major burn. The dense, overgrown forests were the result of decades of fire exclusion and forest “non-management,” policies that stopped the small, low-intensity fires that…