Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities

In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden told Congress his administration would prioritize the use of American-made building materials in government-funded infrastructure projects. Even in the current political climate, this statement was met with rousing applause by Republicans and

The 2021 South Yaak Fire scorched portions of Montana’s Kootenai National Forest, underscoring the need for proactive and preventative active forest management to reduce future risks to local forests, nearby communities, indigenous resources, wildlife habitat, water resources and other values.

“Proforestation” is a relatively new term in the environmental community. The Sierra Club defines it as: “extending protections so as to allow areas of previously-logged forest to mature, removing vast amounts of atmospheric carbon and recovering their ecological and carbon

There are many good reasons for public lands managers to take quick action to remove dead and dying trees after a wildfire. Salvaging scorched timber is not only important to supporting our local forest sector, it is critical to ensuring

This year, California public radio embarked on a year-long investigation, titled BURNED chronicling the U.S. Forest Service’s struggle to reduce wildfire risks in the Golden State, a story that’s all too common throughout the west. The agency’s efforts to thin

A sustainable forest is only made possible by the cooperation of multiple stakeholders. That’s why forestry students at the University of Idaho are exposed to a broad range of perspectives on forest practices — an environment where students must come

Healthy Forest Healthy Communities joins We the Forest for a film profile on Malcolm North, the Affiliate Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of California, Davis, Research Forest Ecologist at the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. With 35

This piece by Melvin Thornton was originally published in a print edition of the Eugene Register-Guard I spent my career fighting fires in western Oregon. But you don’t have to be a professional firefighter to see the growing threat of

In the wake of the bombshell 60 Minutes report on California’s Caldor Fire and the fate of Grizzly Flats, Americans want to know what the federal government is doing to reduce the risks of wildfire, as well as to contain

Singer Carole King leveraged her celebrity status to publish an oped in the New York Times on Aug. 25, calling for an end to commercial timber harvests on federal lands. It’s unclear what makes her an expert on forestry, other