Trump’s Forest Service Pressuring Media to Cover Up Public Lands Logging?

-by Josh Schlossberg, Colorado Advocate, Eco-Integrity Alliance [This opinion piece was sent to multiple media outlets in Colorado, yet each refused to publish it, in effect, media covering up its own cover up.]

Trump’s Fake “Emergency” Logging and Burning of Old-Growth Forests on Utah’s Public Lands

The U.S. Forest Service’s “Pine Valley Wildfire Risk Reduction” in the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah, seeks to log, burn, or take other destructive management actions across 127,667 acres—including in old-growth forests—harming ecosystems, biodiversity, watersheds, climate, air quality, and public health.

A Team of All Goalies Never Wins (Why the Public Lands Movement Can’t Stop Losing)

Those who like hockey know that the most important member of any team is its goalie, whose difficult and often dangerous job is to put their body on the line to keep the other side from scoring. Any club without a good goalie will lose every single game no matter how skilled the rest ofContinue reading “A Team of All Goalies Never Wins (Why the Public Lands Movement Can’t Stop Losing)”

Green Root Podcast #98: WHY PUBLIC LANDS ADVOCACY MATTERS MORE THAN EVER (with Jillian Bar-Av, Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast)

On episode 98 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we talk about past, present, and future threats to public forestlands with Jillian Bar-Av, member of Heartwood (est. 1991) and host of the new Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jillian about: -How Heartwood has united forest protection advocates acrossContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #98: WHY PUBLIC LANDS ADVOCACY MATTERS MORE THAN EVER (with Jillian Bar-Av, Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast)”

Green Root Podcast #97: BEATING BACK TRUMP’S FOREST SERVICE (with Jeff Stant, Indiana Forest Alliance)

On episode 97 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we celebrate a major victory over the Trump administration’s U.S. Forest Service in the Hoosier National Forest in Indiana, with Jeff Stant, National Forest Program Advisor for Indiana Forest Alliance. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jeff about: -The “stop work” order enforced onContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #97: BEATING BACK TRUMP’S FOREST SERVICE (with Jeff Stant, Indiana Forest Alliance)”

Green Root Podcast #96: DOES ENVIRONMENTAL COMPROMISE WORK? (with Adam Bronstein, Our Public Lands)

Video: Audio only: https://open.substack.com/pub/ecointegrityalliance/p/green-root-podcast-96-does-environmental?r=4yod0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true On episode 96 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we question whether or not decades of well-funded, influential “Big Green” environmental NGOs  compromising with industry and government has been effective, and explore how a strong and united grassroots movement might offer a better alternative, with Adam Bronstein, hostContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #96: DOES ENVIRONMENTAL COMPROMISE WORK? (with Adam Bronstein, Our Public Lands)”

Green Root Podcast #95: ANDY MAHLER: A LEGEND OF FOREST PROTECTION (1951-2025)

On a very sad but very special episode 95 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we share one of the last interviews with legendary forest advocate, Andy Mahler, who passed away in August at the age of 74. We hope you enjoy and savor this conversation with—and tribute to—the man who hasContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #95: ANDY MAHLER: A LEGEND OF FOREST PROTECTION (1951-2025)”

Colorado on Front Lines of “Roadless Rule” Battle with Trump Admin

Despite what appears to be an intentional statewide media coverup, Colorado is on the front lines of a battle with the Trump administration over the U.S. Forest Service’s looming rollback of the “Roadless Rule,” which currently limits industrial extraction (logging, grazing, mining, and drilling) across almost sixty million acres of America’s wildest lands.

155 Conservation Groups Unite to Fortify Roadless Protections

155 conservation organizations signed the letter co-written by Eco-Integrity Alliance, John Muir Project, Western Watersheds Project, and Eco Advocates NW urging Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to go beyond simply reinstating the weakened Roadless Rule official rescinded last week.