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Our forests are highly vulnerable to catastrophic fire and disease, which threatens our environment and economy.

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Our forests are highly vulnerable to catastrophic fire and disease, which threatens our environment and economy.

Wildfires produce toxic smoke and carbon emissions that are harmful to our health.

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Wildfires produce toxic smoke and carbon emissions that are harmful to our health.

Tell Congress: Reduce wildfire risks on national forests.

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Tell Congress: Reduce wildfire risks on national forests.

Forest management helps protect our forests and communities.

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Forest management helps protect our forests and communities.

Bruce Ward and David Peri: Forests Burn Like Never Before, What are We Going to Do About it?

healthyforests September 16, 2020 News

Note: Bruce Ward and David Peri contributed the following article to our blog At last the smoke begins to clear and it feels like we can once again get out and run and cycle and enjoy the outdoors after being

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Capt. William E. Simpson II: California Wildfires Yield Unparalleled Devastation – Are They Preventable?

healthyforests September 10, 2020 News

Catastrophic wildfires over the past years are devastating the American landscape and the socioeconomic infrastructure. Landscapes left behind catastrophic wildfires resemble war zones with death and destruction all around. The 2020 California wildfire season is wreaking havoc on the already

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Update: Protect working forests in Snohomish County

healthyforests September 3, 2020 News

Thanks to your help, we’re making progress protecting working forests in Snohomish County. First, the Snohomish County Council has so far declined to seek “reconveyance” (or conversion) of DNR trust lands into a county park- a proposal that comes with

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State budget shortfalls could have a devastating impact on state forestry agencies

healthyforests August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 News

Note: This article was provided to us by the National Association of State Foresters The COVID-19 pandemic has produced the largest economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. During the Great Recession of 2008, America’s real GDP

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Lawsuit kills businesses, threatens forests, water and wildlife

healthyforests August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 News

Note: The following is a news release from New Mexico Forest Industry Association An ongoing lawsuit brought by a Santa Fe environmental group has led to the closure of several rural New Mexico businesses, threatening the long-term health of the

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Overwhelming majority of Oregonians support more active management of federal forests

healthyforests August 12, 2020 News

Our friends at Communities for Healthy Forests, Inc. have released the results from a recently conducted statewide poll conducted by the Portland based independent, nonpartisan opinion research firm DHM Research. The goal of the survey was to assess Oregonians’ opinions

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End “paperwork protests” for healthier forests and communities

healthyforests August 4, 2020 News

“Paperwork protests” are keeping the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from reducing wildfire and smoke risks on public lands, and providing sustainable timber harvests to support jobs. The good news is the BLM is proposing to modernize its forest management rules for

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Forest management is for the birds (and many other wildlife)

healthyforests July 23, 2020 News

This month American Wildlife Conservation Partners (representing the country’s top 50 hunting conservation organizations) released a report recommending specific actions that can be taken to improve wildlife conservation and management in the United States. Their Wildlife for the 21st Century: Volume VI can

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Frank Carroll: ‘Managed Fire’ and the COVID-19 Pandemic

healthyforests July 23, 2020 News

Note: Frank Carroll contributed the following article to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. Forest Service supervisors in Utah are enforcing a moratorium on “managed wildfires” in 2020, this terrible year of the pandemic “wildfire” that so affects all aspects of our

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NEPA 101: The National Environmental Policy Act Process

healthyforests May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 News

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service to undertake an assessment of the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making decisions.  Though some use the NEPA process to stall or

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