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Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities thanks State Rep. Daniel Bonham (R-The Dalles) for his work to pass bipartisan legislation (HB 4118) promoting the use of Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) in Oregon. Under federal law, GNA allows states to partner with the

Bark beetles have caused widespread tree mortality on roughly one-fifth of Colorado’s forestland over the past two decades. But the problem of dead and dying trees in the state’s forests offers an opportunity: standing dead trees can hold value for

Nearly 3.3 million tons of carbon monoxide was emitted during Oregon’s 2017 wildfire season, according to an estimate by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Carbon monoxide is not only a greenhouse gas, it poses a hazard to public health.

Note: The following article by Patrick Barkey and Todd Morgan originally appeared in Montana Business Quarterly, a publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana.  Depression era bank robber Willie Sutton’s reasoning for why he robbed banks

Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret. contributed the following opinion article to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. An open letter to the officials and legislators of all western states and counties: By way of an explanation for my persistence

The Forest Service is seeking public comments as it works to modernize its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations for the first time in a quarter century.  Here’s your chance to help reduce the “analysis paralysis” that keeps more work from being done on

Colorado takes the stage in the next episode of the new national TV series, America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell. The series explores challenges, opportunities and innovations happening in America’s forests, and the Colorado episode will air on Rocky Mountain PBS

Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret. contributed the following opinion article to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. First and most importantly; there is nothing normal or natural about catastrophic wildfire. Catastrophic wildfire is man-caused and the genesis of these man-caused

Last summer’s Chetco Bar Fire ignited on a snag-filled burn scar within the Kalmiopsis wilderness, sending flaming logs and brush through the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and down toward the Chetco River, spreading into a 191,000-acre fire that destroyed homes

Wildfire smoke impacted Idaho’s air quality significantly in 2017. Wildfires burned on over 5 million acres in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and British Columbia Canada combined. Over 700,000 acres were affected by wildfire in Idaho this year. This report presents