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You’ve gotta love this business. In 1980 at the Fifth North American Forest Biology Workshop, I remember a fellow geneticist talking about how climate change was going to cause trees to die out because they couldn’t move north due to uninhabitable spaces for them compared to post-glaciation (say fields instead of forests in the Midwest). … Read more
This article was prepared by Yale Environment 360. Although its focus is primarily on protecting watersheds, most of the well validated scientific principles that Sound Forest Management is based on are clearly demonstrated in a way that easily shows the value of human intervention in our federal forests for other site/situational specific prescribed purposes as … Read more
An article titled “How Wildfires Are Polluting Rivers and Threatening Water Supplies” Published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies makes the following points: 1) “As hotter and dryer conditions spawn an increasing number of wildfires in North America and around the world, one of the overlooked impacts of these worsening conflagrations is … Read more
Pileated Woodpecker made this comment here on this post about the Outdoor Industry and Bears Ears. There is, I think, a very critical reason why the issue now is not the same, or at least is not perceived that way: the water produced by damming Hetch Hetchy benefited a great many people. The profits produced … Read more
For my California NCFP friends: hope this doesn’t happen to you…(my italics). This is from an editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette here that touches on some of the problems we are experiencing here. I personally agree with legalization, but we can’t pretend that unexpected problems don’t exist, and we need to consider that some … Read more
It took more than the allotted time to extract paragraphs from this pdf and reformat, so I just left the Newsletter as is, in pdf 2015_05_26 NFS Litigation Weekly, with the following associated legal documents. 20150507OrderConservationCongress_v_George_KelseyPeak 20150511ComplaintAWR_v_SavageEastReservoir 20150511NOI_EastDeerlodgeProject 20150512MotionToReconsiderFFRC_v_Vilsack2012PlanningRule 20150513NOI_AdvocatesForTheWestGrazingFremontWinema
Native trout on the headwaters of the Blue River, Lane County, Oregon, August 24, 2013. How do salmonids respond in the years following a catastrophic wildfire? Photograph by Aaron L. Zybach. If some of the regular readers here have wondered why I haven’t been too active the past several weeks, this post contains one of … Read more
Thanks to Char for sending this.. here’s an excerpt: Not all fire’s consequences are as obviously beneficial, at least not for those of us dependent on mountainous watersheds to sustain our thirsty downstream communities. Yet it turns out that in this context too words, and the thoughts and actions they generate, matter. Although some reports … Read more
Area Description: Roosevelt Lake is a year-round recreation destination location in central Arizona on the Tonto National Forest. A two-hour drive northeast of Phoenix, Roosevelt Lake is the largest of the four Salt River lakes and is nestled in the beautiful Sonoron Desert. The lake’s main attractions are water-based activities such as fishing and boating.Other … Read more
This is an example of the FS getting its side of the story out there. Good on them and to KTVZ for publishing it here. Here’s a quote from the FS side: The EXF Thinning, Fuels Reduction and Research Project is a collaborative effort between the Deschutes National Forest and the Pacific Northwest Research Station, … Read more