[Below is a letter to the editor submitted to multiple Colorado newspapers that was never published. In recent months, Colorado’s corporate media outlets have rejected close to 100 percent of letters to the editors and opinion pieces from a variety of local residents critiquing public lands extraction while publishing many pieces promoting it.
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SHORT FILM PREMIERE: “Deer and Elk Hunter on ‘Wildfire Fuel Reduction’ Clearcuts” | Monday, March 23 @ 6 pm MT on YouTube
Join Eco-Integrity Alliance on Monday, March 23 @ 6 pm MT for the YouTube premiere of the short film, DEER AND ELK HUNTER ON “WILDFIRE FUEL REDUCTION” CLEARCUTS. Join here (you can have YouTube alert you in advance by clicking “notification on” in the bottom left hand corner of the video). This 6-minute film featuresContinue reading “SHORT FILM PREMIERE: “Deer and Elk Hunter on ‘Wildfire Fuel Reduction’ Clearcuts” | Monday, March 23 @ 6 pm MT on YouTube”
New Report on Agency Failure to Protect Canada Lynx
The Yellowstone to Uintas Connection has released a new report on agency management for Canada lynx. The report provides a detailed analysis and critique of agency management and its current Recovery Plan and Critical Habitat Designation. John Carter notes that “This report illustrates agency deflection around most of the factors that adversely affect Canada lynx, its habitat and preyContinue reading “New Report on Agency Failure to Protect Canada Lynx”
Colorado House Bill to Route Funding from Logging to Home Protection from Wildfires
On March 2, Rep. Tammy Story (District 25, Jefferson County) introduced HB 26-1310 into the Colorado House of Representatives to reroute a portion of the state’s “wildfire mitigation” taxpayer funding away from controversial and scientifically-contested “fuel reduction” logging towards proven home hardening protections, prioritizing grants to low-income residents along with seniors and those with disabilities.Continue reading “Colorado House Bill to Route Funding from Logging to Home Protection from Wildfires”
Tree Species Facing EXTINCTION?
Sam Hitt with Santa Fe Forest Alliance warns about the dual threats to the unique southwestern U.S. tree species known as the white pine from logging and exotic disease.
NASA Climatologist Dr. James E. Hansen Speaks Out against Wildfire “Fuel Reduction” as “Trojan Horse” for Logging
Dr. James Hansen, former Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and current Director of the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University, penned a January 29, 2026 opinion piece in the Boston Globe speaking out against wildfire “fuel reduction” in forests and opposing the “Fix Our Forests” Act, whichContinue reading “NASA Climatologist Dr. James E. Hansen Speaks Out against Wildfire “Fuel Reduction” as “Trojan Horse” for Logging”
Comments Needed on U.S. Forest Service’s “Post-Fire Recovery: by Monday, Jan. 26
-By Rocky Smith, Forest Management Consultant (Denver, Colorado) & Eco-Integrity Alliance The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a nationwide Environmental Assessment (EA) “to analyze the effects of post-fire recovery actions”—i.e. destructive logging and roadbuilding—in National Forests. Specifically, the agency wants to log “fire-killed and damaged trees before they lose their economic value” (including clearcutting andContinue reading “Comments Needed on U.S. Forest Service’s “Post-Fire Recovery: by Monday, Jan. 26”
Green Root Podcast #108: Democrats Greenwashing Trump’s Assault on Public Land?
On episode 108 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg tries to figure out why so many supposedly pro-environment Democrats not only refuse to fight Trump’s onslaught on public lands but ACTIVELY PROMOTE the unprecedented extraction. Josh talks about: -The danger of Democrats greenwashing some of the mostContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #108: Democrats Greenwashing Trump’s Assault on Public Land?”
Green Root Podcast #107: DO COWS BELONG ON PUBLIC LAND? (with Dagny Signorelli, Western Watersheds Project)
On episode 107 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Dagny Signorelli, Wyoming/Northern Utah Director with Western Watersheds Project, exposes the severe and worsening ecological, wildlife, and watershed impacts from ranchers grazing livestock on public lands across the West. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Dagny about: -How supposedly protected public lands—includingContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #107: DO COWS BELONG ON PUBLIC LAND? (with Dagny Signorelli, Western Watersheds Project)”
Conservationist Files Lawsuit Against Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper for Alleged Violation of Colorado Open Records Act
Ecosystem advocate, Josh Schlossberg, filed a civil complaint in District Court in Jefferson County, Colorado last week alleging that Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper deleted and/or withheld emails requested in a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) filing.
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