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Here’s a link to the op-ed written by Governor Kate Brown, Chris Edwards and Bob Van Dyk. Perhaps we’ve discussed this before? It sounds pretty impressive. We can all wish for a lasting peace on private forest management in Oregon. But this Forest Accord be able to do that? What do Oregonians here at TSW … Read more
Quoting Wildfire Today: A letter signed by a bipartisan group of 28 lawmakers urged that steps be taken to avert critical staffing shortages in the wildland firefighting workforce. The document was sent May 10 to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Secretaries of the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior. … Read more
It’s interesting that the EO was leaked to “five individuals” who gave it to the WaPo. So those news stories had certain spins. After reading it, there are other items of interest. Note the actual title mentions both communities and local economies. Here’s the link. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) I signed into … Read more
FYI…. From the DoI’s Office of Wildland Fire…. President’s 2023 Budget Proposes Significant Investments to Address the Nation’s Wildfire Crisis $1.5 billion, including $340 million in the Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund, targeted to reduce wildfire risk, build resilient landscapes, and expand workforce capacity WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s … Read more
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! It’s snowing and blowing and drifting here pretty seriously so I won’t be heading to the pub. I thought everyone could use a break from trying to understand the complexities of oil and gas production.. so here’s a brief post by Peter Williams, as a collaboration literature expert, in answer … Read more
The Forest Service via the National Forest Foundation is setting up a series of roundtables to get feedback and help on carrying out their Wildfire Strategy. Check out the NFF site here. In January 2022, the USDA Forest Service released Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s … Read more
We’ve discussed various aspects of the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest Plan and Sam Evans’ post here and here. Also I posted specifically about the concept of “ecological integrity” and how a sample of partners talk about/use this concept. This discussion is about “what this plan says about the 2012 Planning Rule.” First, I’ll lift out some key … Read more
I’ve been wanting to hear from stakeholders involved with 2012 planning processes. Many thanks to Sam Evans for taking the time to share his experiences. I’m sure this will lead to a great discussion! In addition to the specifics of this plan, we can reflect on the overall context of the 2102 Rule, as Sam … Read more
More research—this time by Oregon State, Colorado State, and the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station—suggesting that the U.S. Forest Service and timber industry continues to bark up the wrong tree with a focus of logging on public lands as a means to protect communities from wildfire. This quote from Dr. Chris Dunn of Oregon … Read more
I may have missed it, but was there already a post on the Custer-Gallatin plan? This news story from Explore Big Sky talks about it, and about how collaboration on the plan worked. And it only took six years, which is good for a complex plan. “In the first stages of this, we had … Read more