-By Rocky Smith, Forest Management Consultant (Denver, Colorado) & Eco-Integrity Alliance The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a nationwide Environmental Assessment (EA) “to analyze the effects of post-fire recovery actions”—i.e. destructive logging and roadbuilding—in National Forests. Specifically, the agency wants to log “fire-killed and damaged trees before they lose their economic value” (including clearcutting andContinue reading “Comments Needed on U.S. Forest Service’s “Post-Fire Recovery: by Monday, Jan. 26”
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Green Root Podcast #108: Democrats Greenwashing Trump’s Assault on Public Land?
On episode 108 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg tries to figure out why so many supposedly pro-environment Democrats not only refuse to fight Trump’s onslaught on public lands but ACTIVELY PROMOTE the unprecedented extraction. Josh talks about: -The danger of Democrats greenwashing some of the mostContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #108: Democrats Greenwashing Trump’s Assault on Public Land?”
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?”
SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: Beetle-Killed Forests Do NOT Increase Chance of Wildfire
Colorado Governor Jared Polis’ and Department of Natural Resources’ recent claim that the latest natural wave of native mountain pine beetle in Front Range forests will increase wildfire threats to communities and forests has long been disproven by the consensus of peer-reviewed—and even government agency—science. This includes conclusive studies from CU Boulder and Colorado StateContinue reading “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: Beetle-Killed Forests Do NOT Increase Chance of Wildfire”
Green Root Podcast #104: CAN GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY SAVE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY?
On episode 104 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg brainstorms about ways that grassroots advocacy might fix our broken chain of participatory democracy between corporations, government, media, and the public. Josh talks about: -Why media—the biggest broken link in the chain—should be held accountable or bypassed -HowContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #104: CAN GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY SAVE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY?”
(de)Fund the (de)Forest Service?
Picture a childcare business with the motto, “Caring for the children and serving parents.” True to its word, it hires on a small team of talented, dedicated people who really love kids and do a great job watching over them. Yet, there’s another, much larger side to this business kept on the downlow. The sameContinue reading “(de)Fund the (de)Forest Service?”
Green Root Podcast #103: BIOMASS OR BIO-MESS? INCINERATING FORESTS FOR ELECTRICITY
On episode 103 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Hudson Kingston, legal director for CURE, battles government plans in Minnesota to greenwash dirty, forest-killing “biomass” energy by ignoring carbon emissions from incinerating trees and trash for industrial-scale electricity. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Hudson about: -How the Minnesota Public UtilitiesContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #103: BIOMASS OR BIO-MESS? INCINERATING FORESTS FOR ELECTRICITY”
Green Root Podcast #102: THE WORST WE’VE EVER SEEN ON PUBLIC LANDS
On episode 102 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), we strategize with Rocky Smith, forest management consultant with over forty years’ experience, about the worst threat we’ve ever seen on public lands in the West—including the now biggest logging project in Colorado history announced last week—and one quick action youContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #102: THE WORST WE’VE EVER SEEN ON PUBLIC 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”
One of the Most Liberal Counties in America Won’t Stop Clearcutting Public Lands
Boulder County, Colorado—where 79% of the electorate voted for Kamala Harris in 2024—continues to almost completely ignore the overwhelming body of science and warnings from the conservation community as to the lack of efficacy, the ecological harm, and the increased danger of spreading fire to communities from its rampant and indiscriminate “fuel reduction” logging acrossContinue reading “One of the Most Liberal Counties in America Won’t Stop Clearcutting Public Lands”
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