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 for guarding forest-edge communities from wildfire. [1][2]
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.
Continue reading “New Plans to Log Millions of Acres of Colorado’s Carbon-Storing Forests”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.
Silt Dumped into Longmont, Colorado’s Drinking Water from “Wildfire Risk Reduction” Logging
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.
Continue reading “Peer-Reviewed Study Exposes “Falsification of the Scientific Record” in Agency-Funded Wildfire Narrative”ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT #1: “California’s historic wet winter risks making wildfire season even worse”
“California’s historic wet winter risks making wildfire season even worse”
Today’s News Herald / Havasu News by Tribune News Service, April 16, 2023
SYNOPSIS
California’s heavy rain and snow will increase vegetation growth that some claim may increase the likelihood and severity of wildfires.
Continue reading “ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT #1: “California’s historic wet winter risks making wildfire season even worse””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.
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