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]
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”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]
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.
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.
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”“California’s historic wet winter risks making wildfire season even worse”
Today’s News Herald / Havasu News by Tribune News Service, April 16, 2023
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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””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 Lesley Dahlkemper (who also sits on the Colorado Fire Commission) lying about the logging of hundreds of fire-resistant mature and old-growth trees up to 129-years-old at county parks under the phony guise of “wildfire risk reduction” during a public town hall in Evergreen, Colorado on February 4, 2023.
Dahlkemper had been provided photos of the trees via email several days prior with a laminated version of the same photos sitting on the table in front of her.
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