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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Green Root Podcast #106: IS THE PUBLIC LANDS MOVEMENT SELLING OUT “PRIVATE” LANDS?
On episode 106 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg wades into an old but ongoing debate within the environmental movement about whether it’s ethical for ecosystem advocates to focus exclusively on public lands protection at the expense of “private” land extraction. Josh talks about: -The arbitrary yetContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #106: IS THE PUBLIC LANDS MOVEMENT SELLING OUT “PRIVATE” 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”
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)”
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 hasContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #95: ANDY MAHLER: A LEGEND OF FOREST PROTECTION (1951-2025)”
Colorado on Front Lines of “Roadless Rule” Battle with Trump Admin
Despite what appears to be an intentional statewide media coverup, Colorado is on the front lines of a battle with the Trump administration over the U.S. Forest Service’s looming rollback of the “Roadless Rule,” which currently limits industrial extraction (logging, grazing, mining, and drilling) across almost sixty million acres of America’s wildest lands.
Green Root Podcast #91: IS DEFENDING THE ROADLESS RULE ENOUGH? (w/ Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater)
On episode 91 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we get off the beaten path to discuss current threats to roll back the “Roadless Rule” and whether the decades-old conservation strategy of defending the status quo of weak public lands protections is working, with Gary Macfarlane, board member of Friends of theContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #91: IS DEFENDING THE ROADLESS RULE ENOUGH? (w/ Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater)”
Green Root Podcast #90: HOW THE PUBLIC LANDS MOVEMENT FAILED (w/ Denise Boggs, Conservation Congress)
On episode 90 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we peek behind the green curtain to uncover the REAL reasons why we keep losing our public lands to more logging, mining, drilling, and grazing, with Denise Boggs, director of Conservation Congress (conservationcongress-ca.org).
FOREST FIRE MALFEASANCE: Emails Expose Government Coverup of Science and Intentional Deception of Public & Media on “Wildfire Fuel Reduction” Logging
Hundreds of emails from a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request show indisputable evidence of Jefferson County Commissioners and Open Space staff colluding with 23 government officials, land management agencies, logging industry trade groups, NGOs, a university, a fire department, and a government-funded “collaborative” on an orchestrated disinformation campaign to push through thousands of acresContinue reading “FOREST FIRE MALFEASANCE: Emails Expose Government Coverup of Science and Intentional Deception of Public & Media on “Wildfire Fuel Reduction” Logging “
25 Coloradans Hike to Stop the Biggest Logging Scheme of the Century
On Saturday, June 14, Forest Management Analyst Rocky Smith, Wildlife Habitat Conservationist Andrew Rothman (formerly with WildEarth Guardians), mountain lion expert David Neils, and Eco-Integrity Alliance’s Josh Schlossberg led a hike to the biggest logging project in recent Colorado history.
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