May 24-27, 2024Memorial Day WeekendUnited Plant Savers Land Sactuary35703 Loop Road, Rutland 45775Meigs County, Ohio Since 1991, the annual Heartwood Forest Council has been a forum where activists gather to forge the future of the forest protection movement. Each year we meet over the Memorial Day Weekend in a different part of the Heartwood region,Continue reading “32nd Annual Heartwood Forest Council | Meigs County, Ohio | May 24-27”
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Farmer Bordering National Forest Opposes “Emergency” Logging That Studies Show Will Make Her Home Vulnerable to Wildfire
Deanna Meyer, a small organic farmer in Sedalia, Douglas County whose property abuts the Pike National Forest, is sounding the alarm about a massive “emergency” logging scheme that studies show will increase the risk of wildfire burning down her home. “The proposed North South Vegetation Management Project is making my farm, my family, and myContinue reading “Farmer Bordering National Forest Opposes “Emergency” Logging That Studies Show Will Make Her Home Vulnerable to Wildfire “
900,000 Acres of Unscientific “Emergency Action” Logging in U.S. National Forests
As of July 15, 2024, 900,368 acres of unscientific “emergency action” logging and burning has been approved or proposed across fifteen National Forests in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Washington.
Green Root Podcast #66: CLEARCUTTING CALIFORNIA? (w/ Melissa Soderston of Tahoe Forests Matter)
On episode 66 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg chats with Melissa Soderston, director of Tahoe Forests Matter, where she reveals a massive logging scheme planned for California’s carbon-storing public forests and how you can help locals planning to stop it.
US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colorado) and Val Hoyle (D-Oregon) are co-sponsoring a bill to spend 30 billion in taxpayer dollars to log and clearcut carbon-storing public forests across the West, a scientifically contested scheme that would undermine President Biden’s “commitment to protect old growth forests on National Forest system lands” while ignoring proven strategies forContinue reading “US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection”
New Plans to Log Millions of Acres of Colorado’s Carbon-Storing Forests
On top of a scheme to log 3.5 million acres of Front Range forests, the U.S. Forest Service is now proposing to cut nearly 800,000 acres of carbon-storing national forests—including old growth—in western and north-central Colorado.
Boulder County, Colorado Violates Management Plan to Log High-Elevation Big Trees
This spring, Boulder County logged hundreds of large, mature, fire-resistant conifers in Caribou Ranch Open Space 1.5 miles outside of Nederland in violation of its own management plan. [1]
Unscientific “Emergency” Logging of National Forests Would Block U.S. Climate Goals
The first logging projects under a new federal “emergency action” loophole that allows cutting of National Forests without customary legal challenges by claiming “threats” from natural wildfires are quickly moving forward in California, Idaho, and Montana.
State of Colorado Lets Accused Drinking Water Polluter Investigate Itself
Months after receiving photos of sediment being dumped into Longmont’s drinking water supply from “wildfire risk reduction” logging carried out by Boulder County Parks and Open Space, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) admitted it had let the accused violator investigate—and exonerate—itself.
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