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)”
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SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: Beetle-Killed Forests Do NOT Increase Chance of Wildfire
Colorado Governor Jared Polis’ and Department of Natural Resources’ recent claim that the latest natural wave of native mountain pine beetle in Front Range forests will increase wildfire threats to communities and forests has long been disproven by the consensus of peer-reviewed—and even government agency—science. This includes conclusive studies from CU Boulder and Colorado StateContinue reading “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: Beetle-Killed Forests Do NOT Increase Chance of Wildfire”
(de)Fund the (de)Forest Service?
Picture a childcare business with the motto, “Caring for the children and serving parents.” True to its word, it hires on a small team of talented, dedicated people who really love kids and do a great job watching over them. Yet, there’s another, much larger side to this business kept on the downlow. The sameContinue reading “(de)Fund the (de)Forest Service?”
Green Root Podcast #102: THE WORST WE’VE EVER SEEN ON PUBLIC LANDS
On episode 102 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), we strategize with Rocky Smith, forest management consultant with over forty years’ experience, about the worst threat we’ve ever seen on public lands in the West—including the now biggest logging project in Colorado history announced last week—and one quick action youContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #102: THE WORST WE’VE EVER SEEN ON PUBLIC LANDS”
Brand New “Biggest Logging Project in Colorado History” Brings Total to Half-Million Acres and Seventeen Roadless Areas
This week, the U.S. Forest Service proposed what is now the largest public land logging scheme of the century (and possibly history) in Colorado, “Pike’s Peak Vegetation Management,”194,567 acres of industrial logging—13,500 acres within four protected Roadless Areas—and 244,210 acres of toxic herbicide spraying in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests in El Paso,Continue reading “Brand New “Biggest Logging Project in Colorado History” Brings Total to Half-Million Acres and Seventeen Roadless Areas”
One of the Most Liberal Counties in America Won’t Stop Clearcutting Public Lands
Boulder County, Colorado—where 79% of the electorate voted for Kamala Harris in 2024—continues to almost completely ignore the overwhelming body of science and warnings from the conservation community as to the lack of efficacy, the ecological harm, and the increased danger of spreading fire to communities from its rampant and indiscriminate “fuel reduction” logging acrossContinue reading “One of the Most Liberal Counties in America Won’t Stop Clearcutting Public Lands”
Green Root Podcast #101: ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA: INEPT OR CORRUPT?
On episode 101 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host and former investigative journalist Josh Schlossberg tries to make sense of whether most media outlets are unable or unwilling to accurately and honestly cover environmental topics. Josh talks about: -The ideological and partisan bias he uncovered while working as an award-winning environmentalContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #101: ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA: INEPT OR CORRUPT?”
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.
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)”
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