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Here is a podcast by Adam Bronstein interviewing Jennifer Mamola with the John Muir Project. Jenn discusses insights and frustrations with current wildfire policy in Washington, D.C. She stresses the importance of shifting focus from backcountry forest management to home hardening and defensible spaces around communities. Criticizing ineffective policies like the Fix Our Forests Act,…
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On Sunday afternoon, the Dear Leader issued a wonderful Executive Order titled Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production. The EO : We are thrilled to see that we will be quickly returning to the golden era, the era of greatness of timber sales that started at the end of World War II but ended towards…
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The Trump administration believes that unless it can be sold or collateralized, it has no value.
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I recently attended a program about the future status of the Deschutes River presented by the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC). The presentation was primarily self-congratulatory about how collaboration promised to restore some of the river’s flows with the assistance of irrigators. At one time, the Deschutes River had the most even flow of any river…
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If you missed yesterday’s showing of Desert Trout about Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, it’s now available to watch at any time on the Desert Trout page. You can view the film directly on YouTube here. Be sure to take it full screen.
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America’s public lands are one of the Nation’s most outstanding achievements. Public lands are part of every citizen’s heritage and an essential part of the national inheritance. It is especially vital to the people living in the western states, where we enjoy an abundance of public land. The public domain is critical to our perception…
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We have all read about the thousands of Forest Service employees Elon Musk laid off without cause in Trump’s reckless attempt to cut the Federal budget by $2 trillion. Unfortunately, many of those laid off were minimally-paid seasonal employees who clean outhouses, maintain campgrounds, and clear hiking trails. The old saying “penny wise and pound…
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Editor’s Note: As I have said before, it’s the small to tiny organizations who do most of the work. Here, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, working on a shoestring budget with basically a single full-time person, is taking on the Goliath of the Forest Service. Again, my suggestion from having worked in the trenches of…
