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.
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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 ofContinue reading “A Team of All Goalies Never Wins (Why the Public Lands Movement Can’t Stop Losing)”
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)”
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 #93: DO DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?
On episode 93 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we get political on the topic of whether elected officials in the Democratic party are walking their talk when it comes to protecting the natural world, with Karen Breslin, democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate from Colorado. Host Josh Schlossberg talks withContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #93: DO DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?”
SIGN-ON to Fortify Roadless Protections: Stronger Than the Rule, Permanent in Law
We invite your organization to join us in urging Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to go beyond simply reinstating the weakened Roadless Rule rescinded this summer. Instead, we must push for stronger, loophole-free legislation that permanently protects inventoried roadless areas from logging, road construction, livestock grazing, and other extractive activities.
Green Root Podcast #92: FOREST FIRE MALFEASANCE (with Dr. Chad Hanson, Fire Ecologist)
On episode 92 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we get scorched by FOREST FIRE MALFEASANCE (ForestFireMalfeasance.org), a new report exposing a government coverup of peer-reviewed science to promote logging on public lands, with Dr. Chad Hanson, research ecologist and director of John Muir Project. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Chad about:Continue reading “Green Root Podcast #92: FOREST FIRE MALFEASANCE (with Dr. Chad Hanson, Fire Ecologist)”
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 “
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