Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities

Note: This column originally appeared in the Redding Record-Searchlight, in response to this article. One doesn’t need to write 38 books about wildfire to understand that fuel loads influence the size and severity of forest fires.  Decades of scientific research

HFHC Rocky Mountain States Director Molly Pitts had the following letter published in the Durango (Co.) Herald on June 29. Please send a quick message in support of the Resilient Federal Forests Act by clicking here! With Arizona, New Mexico,

Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret. contributed the following opinion article to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. The column offers a solution that Capt. Simpson says will save the Bureau of Land Management $58 million annually just on the

In our latest video we highlight a forest project that’s reducing the risk of wildfire and enhancing recreational opportunities, while delivering wood to a local mill to support rural jobs. The revenue generated from the logging goes back into the

Here are some photos from a recent forest tour hosted by Miller Timber Services and Starker Forests demonstrating cut-to-length logging using high-tech equipment from the Finnish company Ponsse. Cut-to-length logging is a process where the harvested trees are cut to

The U.S. Forest Service often blames the lack of employees and money for its inability to implement more (and larger) forest projects that mitigate catastrophic wildfire, insect infestations and disease.  Much of this is due to the growing, unsustainable costs of

On June 8 the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a hearing to examine how litigation and increasingly excessive environmental analysis facing the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has exacerbated the ongoing forest health crisis. Fifty-eight million acres of national forests are

The federal Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination program has expired after years of declining and uncertain payments to counties and schools. A bipartisan group of senators is seeking to reauthorize the program that is intended to compensate rural counties for

CBS Television’s 60 Minutes recently aired an important report on catastrophic wildfire and what can be done by homeowners in the Wildland Urban Interface to save lives and properties.   60 Minutes’ Steve Inskeep interviewed Robert Bonnie, a key Obama

The 2016 Pioneer Fire was a devastating event for the Boise National Forest. The fire burned nearly 190,000 acres in three directions from its start southwest of Idaho City. It was the largest wildfire on national forest land last year,