As of July 15, 2024, 900,368 acres of unscientific “emergency action” logging and burning has been approved or proposed across fifteen National Forests in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Washington.
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Green Root Podcast #66: CLEARCUTTING CALIFORNIA? (w/ Melissa Soderston of Tahoe Forests Matter)
On episode 66 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg chats with Melissa Soderston, director of Tahoe Forests Matter, where she reveals a massive logging scheme planned for California’s carbon-storing public forests and how you can help locals planning to stop it.
US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection
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 forContinue reading “US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection”
New Plans to Log Millions of Acres of Colorado’s Carbon-Storing Forests
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.
Unscientific “Emergency” Logging of National Forests Would Block U.S. Climate Goals
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.
Peer-Reviewed Study Exposes “Falsification of the Scientific Record” in Agency-Funded Wildfire Narrative
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.
Jefferson County, Colorado Commissioner Dahlkemper Falsely Denies Logging Old-Growth Trees at Public Meeting
At a public “town hall” in Evergreen on Saturday, February 4, Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper falsely told a small group of citizens in attendance and hundreds more via livestream that the county was not logging old-growth trees in Open Space parks, despite photographs of dozens of such logged trees—up to 129-years old—on the tableContinue reading “Jefferson County, Colorado Commissioner Dahlkemper Falsely Denies Logging Old-Growth Trees at Public Meeting”
Jefferson County, Colorado Logging Old-Growth Trees for Contested “Wildfire Risk Reduction”
Right now Jefferson County Open Space is cutting hundreds of fire-resistant mature and old growth trees up to 129 years of age and 2.5 feet in diameter at Elk Meadow Park in Evergreen off Route 74, under the phony guise of “wildfire risk reduction.”
Eco-Integrity Alliance Comments on Buffalo Springs “Restoration” Project
We, the steering committee and membership of Eco-Integrity Alliance, are writing in hopes of urging you to protect and preserve Buffalo Springs in the Hoosier National Forest for the invaluable benefits of carbon sequestration and storage to fight climate change, fish and wildlife habitat, clean air and water, and flooding and erosion control. As youContinue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance Comments on Buffalo Springs “Restoration” Project”
“ACTION” HIKE: Flying J Ranch Park on Sept. 25 @ 9 a.m. in Conifer, Colorado
Join Eco-Integrity Alliance on a short and easy guided hike (3 miles, no hills) at Flying J Ranch Park (40 minutes from downtown Denver, 9661 County Hwy 73, Conifer, CO 80433-4008) to enjoy the splendor of ponderosa pine forest, tallgrass meadow, and 150 acres of clearcut devastation courtesy of Jefferson County Open Space, Denver MountainContinue reading ““ACTION” HIKE: Flying J Ranch Park on Sept. 25 @ 9 a.m. in Conifer, Colorado”
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