Category Archives: Press Release
Peer-Reviewed Study Exposes “Falsification of the Scientific Record” in Agency-Funded Wildfire Narrative
A new study debunks industry/agency claims of “unprecedented” high-severity wildfires across “overgrown” western forests, revealing how U.S. Forest Service-funded scientists omitted evidence to push a narrative currently being used to justify proposals to log tens of millions of acres of public lands across the west, including 3.5 million acres in Colorado’s Front Range.
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 Commissioner Dahlkemper Falsely Denies Logging Old-Growth Trees at Public Meeting
At a public “town hall” in Evergreen on Saturday, February 4, Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper falsely told a small group of citizens in attendance and hundreds more via livestream that the county was not logging old-growth trees in Open Space parks, despite photographs of dozens of such logged trees—up to 129-years old—on the tableContinue reading “Jefferson County, Colorado Commissioner Dahlkemper Falsely Denies Logging Old-Growth Trees at Public Meeting”
Instead of Saving Homes from Wildfire, Colorado’s Congressional Delegation Spends Billions to Log National Forests
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Joe Neguse helped spend over $3.3 billion in taxpayer dollars to log national forests, funds that could’ve protected homes from wildfire, according to Eco-Integrity Alliance, a national coalition uniting the environmental movement, with a base in Colorado. Eco-Integrity Alliance has erected a billboard on E. ColfaxContinue reading “Instead of Saving Homes from Wildfire, Colorado’s Congressional Delegation Spends Billions to Log National Forests”
Eco-Integrity Alliance + 20 Conservation Groups Ask Rep. Neguse to Reschedule Canceled Hearing on Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)
Eco-Integrity Alliance, a new coalition of U.S. environmentalists uniting the environmental movement, along with 20 leading conservation organizations, sent a letter today to Rep. Joe Neguse, chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, asking him to schedule a new Congressional hearing for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA).Continue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance + 20 Conservation Groups Ask Rep. Neguse to Reschedule Canceled Hearing on Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)”
Eco-Integrity Alliance Supports Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)
Eco-Integrity Alliance, a new coalition of U.S. environmentalists uniting the alternative environmental movement, endorses Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), a bill encompassing nearly 20 million acres across Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming, creating biological zones to connect new and existing wilderness and roadless areas. Containing some of the most ecologically-rich lands left inContinue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance Supports Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)”