Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities

Wildfire-driven deforestation rates in California are now among the highest in the world, according to new research highlighted by Phys.org.  California’s wildfire crisis has become so severe that Governor Gavin Newsom waived portions of the California Environmental Quality Act, commonly

Some anti-forestry groups claim active forest management comes at the expense of outdoor recreation on public lands. Stop logging, they argue, and rural communities will transition toward more prosperous tourism-based economies. New research recently highlighted in The Conversation helps dispute

The House of Representatives has passed the Save Our Sequoias Act with strong bipartisan support, advancing a focused effort to protect and restore giant sequoia groves in California.  The legislation directs the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service to

For decades, federal wilderness and forest policies have largely been guided by a preservation framework rooted in laws written 40 to 50 years ago.  These policies were adopted in a different era, before prolonged drought, extreme wildfire behavior, insect outbreaks,

New research from the University of Washington shows that active forest management can strengthen water security. In a study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, researchers examined how forest thinning affects snowpack in the eastern Cascade Mountains.  Snowpack

As wildfires grow larger and more destructive across the West, forest health projects remain stuck in court. It can take a decade to plan a project and a single court ruling to stall it completely, even as wildfires continue to

This guest post is from Cody Altizer of the Give for Grouse Initiative. Please contribute to this important campaign here. There was a time, in our not-so-distant history, that an iconic upland species called our young forests home. All across

Note: This blog post responds to an oped in The Hill by Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth Tom Tidwell and Vicki Christiansen, former Chiefs of the US Forest Service. Twenty-five years ago, when the Roadless Rule was adopted, few people anticipated

The Forest Service is asking for public comment on a new plan designed to help the agency act faster after severe wildfires on national forests. Wildfires today are larger, more intense, and more destructive than in the past. When fires

The holiday season is filled with familiar traditions, many of which have roots in the forest. From Christmas trees in living rooms, to paper wrapping gifts, to the wood that helps warm homes on cold winter nights, forests play an