South Revilla old growth logging proposal moves forward in Tongass
The federal government proposes to offer more than 5,000 acres of old growth forest in Tongass National Forest for commercial logging. While Conservationists are sounding the alarm over the project…
Read More...Trillion trees effort gets corporate buy-in
Over the next decade, Salesforce plans to conserve and restore 100 million trees. Mastercard plans to reach the same number in five years. Timberland is also planting trees: 50 million…
Read More...Benefits of Cattle Grazing for Reducing Fire Fuels and Fire Hazard
The widespread and severe wildfires in California during the past several years highlight the importance of understanding how land management practices such as cattle grazing affect wildfire risk. The California…
Read More...‘Living with fire’ may lead to less destructive wildfires, say Indigenous land stewards
As wildfires rage across California, leveling structures and taking lives, Indigenous leaders say the lessons of the state’s first inhabitants might have mitigated this disaster and could still help avoid others. Although unpredictable…
Read More...Forests scorched by wildfire unlikely to recover, may convert to grasslands
A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study offers an unprecedented glimpse, suggesting that when forests burn across the Southern Rocky Mountains, many will not grow back and will instead convert…
Read More...USDA and Wyoming sign Shared Stewardship Agreement to improve forests and grasslands
The Shared Stewardship Agreement establishes a framework for federal and state agencies to promote active forest management, improve collaboration, and respond to ecological challenges and natural resource concerns in Wyoming.
Read More...California looks to battle mega wildfires with fire
The effort marks a milestone in California’s pivot away from a century of suppressing fire at all costs and toward working with it instead—using controlled flames to restore ecosystems that…
Read More...Forest thinning, fire can boost Western watersheds
We know there are ways to actively manage our Western forests to improve water quality, provide for jobs, reduce the cost of firefighting and increase forest resiliency. Now we have…
Read More...Pine Gulch Fire grows to 2nd-largest in Colorado history
wildfire burning in remote terrain in western Colorado is now the second largest in the state’s history, fire officials said Wednesday. As of Wednesday morning, the so-called “Pine Gulch” fire…
Read More...Warmer winters spark boom in tree-devouring beetles
A plague of tiny mountain pine beetles, no bigger than a grain of rice, has already destroyed 15 years of log supplies in British Columbia, enough trees to build 9…
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