Previously logged Plum Creek Timber Company lands which didn’t stop 36,ooo acre plus Jocko Lakes Fires. Photo George Wuerthner Recently Governor Greg Gianforte praised forest management for limiting the […]
Chainsaw Medicine in the Gravelly Range (Greenhorn Vegetation Project)
The Gravelly Range lies west of Ennis, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner The 17,000-acre plus Greenhorn “Vegetation” Project in the Gravelly Range of the Beaverhead Deer Lodge National Forest (BDNF) is […]
Good News In The Maine Woods (Lessons for Conservation)
The Maine Woods is the largest undeveloped (not untouched) region in the eastern United States and is part of RESTORE’s vision for a 3.2 million-acre national park. Photo George Wuerthner […]
A Bigger Hammer Won’t Stop Large Wildfires
Fire killed trees store carbon for decades. Photo George Wuerthner In an Aug. 29 letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, lawmakers — mostly from California […]
Expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness
The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness encompasses Montana’s highest peaks and some of the most extensive area above timberline in the lower 48 states. Photo George Wuerthner By Phil Knight and […]
People Hate National Parks and Monuments–Until they Don’t
Last week, the state of Utah filed a court challenge to the Biden Administration’s expansion of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah. The state […]