Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities

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,

by Steve Kariainen: HFHC Great Lakes Director Montana’s Bruce Vincent likes to remind us, “The world is run by those who show up!” Margaret Mead is famous for saying, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can

A Democratic Governor in a deep-blue state made headlines in declaring a state of emergency ahead of this year’s wildfire season.  As part of the declaration, California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved to ease state regulations to expedite targeted forest management

The U.S. Forest Service released its budget justification for Fiscal Year 2020 and it includes a lot of information about the agency and its finances.  Buried in this voluminous document are details about settlement awards and attorneys fees related to

Jim Dudley is Vice President of Timber Resources for Swanson Group, a forest products company. The following is an excerpt of his address to the 2019 Oregon Logging Conference, of which he served as president. We have reprinted Jim’s address

Last month Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild launched well-publicized attacks against the Bureau of Land Management’s “Pedal Power” timber sale, near Springfield and Willamalane Park and Recreation District’s Thurston Hills Natural Area.  You may be curious about what this manufactured

Steve Kariainen is Great Lakes Director for Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Change is nothing new to the forests of the Great Lakes region of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The forests are relatively young, having developed in the wake of the