Eco-Integrity Alliance is pleased to announce our receipt of a generous grant from a foundation based in the western U.S. for its Rocky Mountain Wildfire-Forests Media Campaign. The goal of the campaign across Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, is to balance the dominant narrative promoting unscientific “wildfire fuel reduction” logging in mainstreamContinue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance Awarded Grant for Rocky Mountain Wildfire-Forests Media Campaign”
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Hikers Tour Largest Logging Project in Colorado History
On May 26 Eco-Integrity Alliance hosted a guided hike for over thirty people (photo shows most, though not all attendees) through a section of the Pike National Forest outside Sedalia threatened by 116,600 acres of scientifically-contested “wildfire fuel reduction” logging, the largest logging project in Colorado history.
Guided Hike in Colorado Forest Threatened by “Emergency” Logging | Sunday, May 26 @ 10 a.m.
On Sunday, May 26 at 10 a.m. you’re invited on a guided hike through public forests threatened by the “Lower North-South Vegetation Management” outside Sedalia. The 3-mile, slow-to-moderately-paced hike will include identifying birds and rare, medicinal, and edible plants threatened by logging, along with evidence showing how this project will harm wildlife and the climate,Continue reading “Guided Hike in Colorado Forest Threatened by “Emergency” Logging | Sunday, May 26 @ 10 a.m.”
Forest Management Analyst Warns of “Strongly Adverse Impacts” from 116,000-acre “Wildfire Fuel” Logging in Roadless Areas
Rocky Smith, a Denver-based forest management analyst and consultant of more than 40 years, is voicing “strong concerns” with the “Lower North-South Vegetation Management” project, 116,600 acres of scientifically-contested “wildfire fuel reduction” logging in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest in the Front Range mountains of Jefferson and Douglas Counties, 18,500 acres within protected Colorado RoadlessContinue reading “Forest Management Analyst Warns of “Strongly Adverse Impacts” from 116,000-acre “Wildfire Fuel” Logging in Roadless Areas”
Green Root Podcast #67: Heartwood Forest Council (w/Matt Peters)
On episode 67 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg talks with Matt Peters, member of the Heartwood coordinating council, who covers the state of eastern U.S. forests and invites you to the 32nd annual Heartwood Forest Council on May 24-27 in Ohio.
32nd Annual Heartwood Forest Council | Meigs County, Ohio | May 24-27
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”
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”
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]
Jefferson County, CO April Wildfire Panel Excludes Scientists and Public Input
After pushback from local residents on clearcutting and old-growth logging in Open Space parks, Jefferson County is hosting a “Community Conversation” Town Hall on wildfire on Saturday, April 8 @ 9 a.m. at Evergreen Fire Protection District (1802 Bergen Parkway), without a single scientist or meaningful public engagement.
Jefferson County, Colorado Logging Old-Growth Trees for Contested “Wildfire Risk Reduction”
Right now Jefferson County Open Space is cutting hundreds of fire-resistant mature and old growth trees up to 129 years of age and 2.5 feet in diameter at Elk Meadow Park in Evergreen off Route 74, under the phony guise of “wildfire risk reduction.”
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