On episode 75 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg goes on a road trip with Deanna Lynn Wulff, Director of Unite the Parks, to talk about how closing old logging roads could help prevent human-caused wildfires along with her organization’s mission to link up Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon NationalContinue reading “GREEN ROOT PODCAST #75: Closing Logging Roads for Fire Danger (w/ Deanna Lynn Wulff, Unite the Parks)”
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ENVIRO MEDIA REPORT CARD #4: “Recapping Montana’s 2024 Fire Season” by Caroline Weiss, KPAX
ARTICLE: “Recapping Montana’s 2024 Fire Season” REPORTER: Caroline Weiss OUTLET: KPAX (Montana)
GREEN ROOT PODCAST #73: Forest Politics in Washington, D.C. (with Jennifer Mamola of John Muir Project)
On episode 73 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg goes to Capitol Hill with Jennifer Mamola, Policy and Advocacy Director for John Muir Project, who forecasts some environmental legislation to expect from Congress.
Green Root Podcast #72: Environmental Strategy Under Trump
On episode 72 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg proposes a tried-and-true strategy for an environmental movement that has literally been losing ground for decades in what is perhaps its darkest hour.
Evidence from U.S. Forest Service Study: Forest “Thinned” for “Fuel Reduction” Burned SEVERELY in Wildfire, Adjacent Unlogged Forest DIDN’T BURN AT ALL
Evidence in a study funded by U.S. Forest Service, and co-authored by Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and the Colorado Field Office for The Nature Conservancy, shows that 122 acres of public forest outside Nederland “thinned” in 2015 in the name of “wildfire fuel reduction” burned at “high severity” during the 2016 Cold Springs Fire, destroyingContinue reading “Evidence from U.S. Forest Service Study: Forest “Thinned” for “Fuel Reduction” Burned SEVERELY in Wildfire, Adjacent Unlogged Forest DIDN’T BURN AT ALL”
NEW STUDY: Fast Moving, Wind Driven Wildfires Most Dangerous
Fast moving fires are the most deadly, according to a new study out of University of Colorado Boulder, published in the journal Science. These findings dovetail with other peer reviewed studies showing how “wildfire fuel reduction” logging opens forests to wind which can spread flames more rapidly to communities.
New Science Challenges Assumptions That Utah “Fuel Reduction” Logging Will Protect Communities from Wildfire
Outdated land management practices in Utah’s Salt Lake and Summit Counties ignore a large and growing body of peer-reviewed scientific papers disputing claims that “thinning” trees protects communities from wildfires.
Advocates in Eight Western States Call on Congress to Fund Prevention of Human-Caused Wildfires
Eco-Integrity Alliance, a national advocacy group with organizing members in Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, and Montana, calls on elected officials to allocate additional funds and updated guidance to federal, state, and county agencies to better prevent human-caused wildfires, instead of wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on ineffective and destructive “fuel reduction”Continue reading “Advocates in Eight Western States Call on Congress to Fund Prevention of Human-Caused Wildfires”
Eco-Integrity Alliance Awarded Grant for Rocky Mountain Wildfire-Forests Media Campaign
Eco-Integrity Alliance is pleased to announce our receipt of a generous grant from a foundation based in the western U.S. for its Rocky Mountain Wildfire-Forests Media Campaign. The goal of the campaign across Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, is to balance the dominant narrative promoting unscientific “wildfire fuel reduction” logging in mainstreamContinue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance Awarded Grant for Rocky Mountain Wildfire-Forests Media Campaign”
Public Invited on Guided Hike through Colorado Forest Threatened by “Wildfire Fuel Reduction” Logging
On Sunday, May 26 at 10 a.m. Eco-Integrity Alliance will host a guided hike through a section of the Pike National Forest outside Sedalia threatened by 116,600 acres of scientifically-contested “wildfire fuel reduction” logging. The easy to moderate hike is free and open to the public with an RSVP to eia [at] eco-integrityalliance [dot] org.
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