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Forest Management Analyst Warns of “Strongly Adverse Impacts” from 116,000-acre “Wildfire Fuel” Logging in Roadless Areas

Rocky Smith, a Denver-based forest management analyst and consultant of more than 40 years, is voicing “strong concerns” with the “Lower North-South Vegetation Management” project, 116,600 acres of scientifically-contested “wildfire fuel reduction” logging in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest in the Front Range mountains of Jefferson and Douglas Counties, 18,500 acres within protected Colorado RoadlessContinue reading “Forest Management Analyst Warns of “Strongly Adverse Impacts” from 116,000-acre “Wildfire Fuel” Logging in Roadless Areas”

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)”