Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities

This is the second interview in our series in partnership with Evergreen Magazine: The Evergreen Foundation Emily, from Seattle, discusses wildfire and climate change with a unique perspective having grown up near Paradise, CA and now as a resident of

We’ve joined forces with Evergreen Magazine to announce the first of our new Man on the Street interview series. These are a collection of interviews, offering both urban and rural viewpoints- aimed at exploring the public perception of wildfire, forest

In May, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced S. 1262. This matters to Southern Oregon because it expands the Wild Rogue Wilderness by 60,000-acres and creates a 98,000-acre recreation area adjacent to the existing Wild Rogue Wilderness Area (maps

The alternating sunny warm weather interspersed with soaking rains has made for the most prodigious crop of grass and brush on the landscape that I have seen in decades. Coupled with that, the signs from the flora and fauna are

Anna Yarbrough, a forester, contributed the following article in light of a proposed tax increase in the Oregon Legislature. We appreciate her willingness to allow us to publish the following, which first appeared on her Facebook page: First, let me

Please join the editor of Scorched: Wildfires The New Normal Hell NO™ for a Clean Air Rally – Saturday, June 1, 2019 Medford, Oregon Click here to download flyer Another Summer of Smoke is Inevitable! Your Voice Must Be Heard

by Steve Kariainen: HFHC Great Lakes Director The following is taken from a newspaper op-ed entitled, “Earth Day – A Day to Celebrate Forestry!” that I wrote a couple years ago while doing some work for Forest Resources Association: Earth

Jacob Steensen is a forester of Coos Bay, Ore. He allowed us to share this perspective on the recent closure of a mill in his community. With the closure of Georgia Pacific’s mill in Coos Bay Oregon, many Coos County

Rachel Lee Hall previously contributed her Forest Under Stress research here. Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities thanks her again for allowing us to share this follow-up to her work: I am a long time resident of Oregon and a citizens advocate

Last year, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to end the practice of “fire borrowing,” where the U.S. Forest Service “borrows” money from forest management accounts to pay for escalating wildfire suppression costs. Yet this “fix” doesn’t take effect until 2020,