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The Western Governors’ Association has been having a Working Lands Roundtable with sessions on different topics. I previously posted on a session here. Here is a link to the presentations- they are all on video. Nothing “newsworthy” happened there. For me, as a retiree who doesn’t work daily with the folks slogging through this … Read more
From time to time, The Smokey Wire community is called on to support journalists in their work. I think the best way we can do that is to add our voices of experience and tell our stories. Even the simplest question has a variety of outcomes depending on where in the country we are (social, … Read more
Thanks to Susan Jane Brown for sharing the link to the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. It is a joint effort by TNC and the Watershed Center. There are many interesting posts there, (and it’s great that there’s a whole section of Fantastic Failures), and I thought I’d highlight this one that tells a story … Read more
Press release from Oregon State today: 2-4-19 NW Forest Plan 25 years later: Wildfire losses up, bird populations down By Steve Lundeberg, 541-737-4039, [email protected] Sources: Matt Betts, 541-737-3841, [email protected]; Ben Phalan, [email protected] This story is available online: http://bit.ly/2G97xKn. CORVALLIS, Ore. – Twenty-five years into a 100-year federal strategy to protect older forests … Read more
USFS press release: Idaho and USDA sign historic agreement to improve forest health DECEMBER 18, 2018 AT 3:00 PM EST – The State of Idaho and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today entered into a new agreement to improve forest health conditions across Idaho that sets an example of interagency collaboration for other states to … Read more
The Colville National Forest released a draft Record of Decision for its revised forest plan on September 8. During the planning process, a collaborative group, the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition submitted a proposal to designate more than 200,000 acres of new wilderness, to be offset by increased logging on other parts of the Forest and … Read more
Livestream keynote, roundtables at today’s Invasive Species Workshop. This is another webinar from WGA on Biosecurity and Invasive Species. As always, anyone in the NCFP community is invited to watch and summarize for us, either as a comment or a separate post (email to Sharon). Here’s the link, it will also be available afterwards. The … Read more
This article is about the fact that the Malheur National Forest hasn’t had a lawsuit in 15 years. Hannibal said “three to four times the amount of work” is getting done nowadays compared to 15 years ago. Timber sales data from the Malheur National Forest tell a similar story. From 2010 to 2016, the volume … Read more
Three years ago the Forest Service had this to say about the greater sage-grouse: Two US Forest Service Records of Decision and associated land management plan amendments are the culmination of an unprecedented planning effort in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management to conserve greater sage-grouse and its habitat on National Forest System lands … Read more
Original post (Sharon – did I miss a new rule about threads being closed to new comments? This one was started 8/13, and Steve replied 9/7, but I couldn’t today and it says “comments are closed” at the end.) Steve posted this from AFRC: Ninth Circuit Undercuts Collaborative Landscape Management A Ninth Circuit ruling on … Read more