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Editors note: Kyle Johnson is a forester with the Bureau of Land Management’s Missoula Field Office. Mr. Johnson is not affiliated with Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities but gave us permission to share his message. It seems like the topic everyone

From 2020 to 2021, the Castle and Windy Fires in California combined to burn 154,000 acres of National Forest System lands (excluding designated Wilderness areas). Both fires caused extensive deforestation. Half of the acres burned in the Castle Fire alone

Episode 5 of Rick Dancer’s Truth About Timber Series: Rick visits the Oregon Logging Conference, the largest gathering of forest professionals in the country. Hear from a school teacher who is educating her students about modern technology and opportunities in

“Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.” – Mark Twain This comes to mind when considering the reaction by anti-forestry groups (and some in the news media) to the Biden Administration’s new old growth policy,

In December, the Biden Administration announced its long-awaited policy to conserve old growth forests on lands managed by the federal government. The policy caps a nearly two-year process after Biden signed his Earth Day executive order in 2022, including defining,

People can learn a lot about timber management going to school and getting a degree. But there are generations of loggers in Oregon, who not only have some formal education in logging, but have spent their entire lives working and

The U.S. Forest Service is floating a new rule to potentially grant “perpetual rights of use and occupancy” for carbon waste injection under national forests and grasslands. Such rights may include constructing extensive infrastructure such as pipelines, injection wells, and

When fires start in Oregon forests, loggers and others in the industry are some of the first people on the scene to fight fires. In our third of a series called “The Truth About Timber,” we profile those who drop

Wildfire smoke has reversed a quarter of air quality gains achieved under the federal Clean Air Act, according to a new study published in Nature. The Clean Air Act, first approved in 1972, targets particulate matter called PM2.5 that is

By Corey Bingaman, Western Oregon Field Coordinator for the American Forest Resource Council Fuel reduction projects are often maligned by those who oppose active forest management. Critics point to the fact that, during certain conditions, no amount of fuels reduction