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Green Root Podcast #100: A BEAUTIFULLY BURNED FOREST (with Richard Hutto, Wildlife Biologist)

On episode 100 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we explore the ecological wonderland and wildlife haven that is a severely-burned forest, with Richard Hutto, emeritus professor in wildlife biology and author of the new book, A BEAUTIFULLY BURNED FOREST: LEARNING TO CELEBRATE SEVERE FOREST FIRE.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Richard about:

-The science informing his book, A BEAUTIFULLY BURNED FOREST

-The wildlife species that need severely-burned forests to survive

-How industry, government, and media have demonized wildfire

-How advocates might inform the public as to the crucial role of wildfire in western forests and harm from “fuel reduction” logging

-Richard’s take on the root of the ecological crisis

Wildfire Pretense Logging: The Trojan Horse Destroying Public Lands

What do these recent actions on public lands have in common?

The Orwellian “Fix Our Forests” Act. Trump’s executive order to expand American timber production. The rescinding of the Roadless Rule. “Emergency” designation across 112 million acres—59% of National Forests.

All of them—unprecedented in scale and scope—push industrial logging under the pretense of “protecting” communities and forests from wildfire. (And, yes, despite bad faith denials, so-called “fuel reduction” meets the dictionary definition of logging, i.e. “to cut trees into logs”; the contractors hired to do the jobs are “logging contractors”; even project maps clearly label this as “logging.”)

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Green Root Podcast #99: 100 NEW NATIONAL PARKS (with Michael Kellett, RESTORE: The North Woods

On episode 99 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we talk about a positive alternative vision for public lands that would establish 100 new National Parks in the U.S.—at least one in every state—with Michael Kellett, executive director of RESTORE: The North Woods.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Michael about:

-How the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture treats National Forests as industrial croplands

-How the anti-science exploitation of wildfire to log western forests is now being pushed in the eastern U.S.

-The October conference “Forest Fires in Massachusetts: Myths and Realities”

-RESTORE: The North Woods’ upcoming campaign to designate 100 new National Parks, at least one in every state

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.

A Team of All Goalies Never Wins (Why the Public Lands Movement Can’t Stop Losing)

Those who like hockey know that the most important member of any team is its goalie, whose difficult and often dangerous job is to put their body on the line to keep the other side from scoring.

Any club without a good goalie will lose every single game no matter how skilled the rest of the players might be. But what happens when a team is made up of ONLY goalies?

Green Root Podcast #98: WHY PUBLIC LANDS ADVOCACY MATTERS MORE THAN EVER (with Jillian Bar-Av, Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast)

On episode 98 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we talk about past, present, and future threats to public forestlands with Jillian Bar-Av, member of Heartwood (est. 1991) and host of the new Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jillian about:

-How Heartwood has united forest protection advocates across the U.S. since 1991

-How to balance art with activism

-The passing of eco-musician Robert Hoyt and Heartwood founder, Andy Mahler

-The new Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast

-Jillian’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis

Listen to the Heartwood Forest Protection Podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/heartwood/

Green Root Podcast #97: BEATING BACK TRUMP’S FOREST SERVICE (with Jeff Stant, Indiana Forest Alliance)

On episode 97 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we celebrate a major victory over the Trump administration’s U.S. Forest Service in the Hoosier National Forest in Indiana, with Jeff Stant, National Forest Program Advisor for Indiana Forest Alliance.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jeff about:

-The “stop work” order enforced on the largest logging, burning, and herbicide-spraying project in the history of the Hoosier National Forest

-The court ruling finding that the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

-What this legal victory means for public lands protection in the region and across the U.S.

-Jeff’s take on the root cause of National Forest destruction

Green Root Podcast #96: DOES ENVIRONMENTAL COMPROMISE WORK? (with Adam Bronstein, Our Public Lands)

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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, host of Our Public Lands podcast.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Adam about:

-The victories and losses of the mainstream environmental movement over the years

-The influence of corporate foundations on public lands advocacy

-The collusion between Big Greens, the Democratic party, and many media outlets

-Certain large organizations’ attempts to fight the rollback of the Roadless Rule by allowing more logging

-Adam’s take on the root of the ecological crisis

Green Root Podcast #95: ANDY MAHLER: A LEGEND OF FOREST PROTECTION (1951-2025)

On a very sad but very special episode 95 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we share one of the last interviews with legendary forest advocate, Andy Mahler, who passed away in August at the age of 74. We hope you enjoy and savor this conversation with—and tribute to—the man who has done so much for Nature.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Andy about:

-How Andy and a coalition of other locals shut down logging in Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest for thirty years

-Recent wins in the fight against the so-called Buffalo Springs Restoration Project, “the largest and most destructive” logging sale ever proposed for the Hoosier National Forest

-History of the region as a past (and possibly future?) bison migration route

-Andy’s philosophy on the one-ness of humanity and the natural world

-And so much more!

(One amazing thing about this episode is that when we recorded it this spring, Andy’s internet was so shaky we eventually decided the footage was unusable. So, we had plans to re-record, made a couple attempts to set up a time, with the most recent email sent to Andy what ended up being a few days before his passing. Upon hearing the sad news, we went back to the recording to see if any clips might be salvaged, and incredibly somehow Zoom had fixed it so that 99% of the audio was saved and most of the video. Some video does remains choppy, blurry, and/or stationary and, at times, we replaced it with still shots of Andy others have taken of him over the years.)