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Why Federal Tax Dollars are Funding the National Wild Turkey Federation
March 13, the National Wild Turkey Federation crowed about its “new Participating Agreement with the USDA Forest Service, marking a...
Don’t Offer up our National Forests for Industrial Carbon Waste Dumping
by Jim Furnish In my 34-year career at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency worked to support American industry while also maintaining public...
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asSAuLTing a Unique Forest on the Toiyabe
Reaching 11,918 feet above sea level, Mt. Charleston is the highest peak in the Spring Mountains, a forested oasis on the Toiyabe National...
Protecting Salmon Strongholds in the Klamath Mountains
by Grant Werschkull The Smith River watershed in northern California and southern Oregon is a land of superlatives. Ancient redwood forests...
The Northwest Forest Plan Amendment
The Northwest Forest Plan — the world’s largest ecosystem management plan — was adopted in 1994 after President Bill Clinton essentially...
Researchers Sequence Whitebark Pine Genome
Among efforts to stave off the rapid decline of whitebark pine trees, researchers have recently sequenced the genome of this keystone species...
2023 Brings Quietest U.S. Fire Season in Decades
The most current data show 2023 was a relatively quiet fire year. The National Interagency Fire Center reports 54,273 wildfires burned...
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Old-Growth Forests
Can the Forest Service Kick its 100-year Addiction to Logging? President Biden was widely praised for Executive Order 14072, which ordered the...
How Homes Can Survive Wildfire
While there’s no historical evidence that Nero “fiddled while Rome burned,” there’s been plenty of fiddling in our forests while homes and...
Mature and Old-Growth Forest Inventory
The first national inventory of old-growth and mature forests on federal lands was completed this spring in response to Executive Order 14072,...
Fire Truth
How Homes Can Survive Wildfire
While there’s no historical evidence that Nero “fiddled while Rome burned,” there’s been plenty of...
Paying the Piper
In the 20th century, the Forest Service promised to build post-war America with logs cut from...
Jefferson Public Radio Interviews Andy Stahl About Fire Retardant
The Jefferson Exchange: The cavalry, or the contaminator? The debate over tankers dropping fire...
Effectiveness of Landscape-Scale Fuel Treatments Questioned
A comprehensive 2021 Forest Service report by Theresa B. Jain, et al., identifies significant...
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