January 19, 2021 Trump Administration issues EO creating Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee Federal wildland fire management lacks a single focal point of responsibility for policy leadership and accountability for cost controls. While executive departments and agencies…
September 26, 2020 Retired Fire Chief: The end of logging is turning forests into tinderboxes Going back to Native Americans in America, controlled burning (later called Prescribed Fire) have saved the west from huge conflagrations. By burning large brush…
September 20, 2020 Tree Huggers vs Science: The environmental movement’s confused forest policy In a historic forest, gentle fires burned often enough to clear dead wood and small trees from under the big trees. They might flare…
January 17, 2020 Climate experts confirm Trump’s assertion that bad forest management is responsible for California wildfires Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a…
January 14, 2020 Australia’s Fires: Caused by Bad Forestry and Arson, Not Global Warming There is only one way to prevent unmanageable fires, and that is to reduce the one variable that man can control: ground fuel. A…
October 9, 2019 California’s forest management crisis leads to power outages for millions The company was found responsible for numerous wildfires in the past, including the 2018 Paradise fire that killed 86 people… This preemptive move aims…
July 8, 2019 California’s 147 million dead trees a powder keg waiting to be lit “It’s just a matter of time,” says Amy Head, a Cal Fire battalion chief. “When it happens, we’re looking at dry standing fuel ready…
June 14, 2019 How much worse will forest fires have to get before feds act decisively? The USFS says since 1994, bark beetles have wiped out over four million acres in the southern Rockies. The trees turn red, then brown,…
May 30, 2019 Enviros want Forest Service to address 222,000 acres of dead trees with crosscut saws In the Weminuche and South San Juan wilderness areas, however, trees have been falling down at a slower pace, but with such frequency the…
December 26, 2018 Trump order frees up agencies to apply more effective wildfire strategies The order also calls on federal officials to streamline regulations and permitting processes to allow the harvest of at least 3.8 billion board feet…
