by FSEEE | Oct 10, 2020 | In the News
By Anna V. Smith — In the early fall of 2018, Marina Anderson sped down the rough road connecting one side of Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island to the other. She had only a few hours to get to a public meeting over the potential opening of the Tongass National Forest,...
by FSEEE | Oct 4, 2020 | In the News
By Laurel Wamsley and Scott Neuman — The Trump administration has cleared the way to open the country’s largest national forest to more development and logging. In a revised environmental impact study made public on Friday, the Department of Agriculture...
by FSEEE | Sep 25, 2020 | FSEEE in the News, In the News
“Timber Wars,” a podcast from Oregon Public Broadcasting, is now available online. The new podcast tells the story of how a small group of activists and scientists turned the fight over old-growth trees and the northern spotted owl into one of the biggest...
by FSEEE | Sep 20, 2020 | Fire Truth, In the News, Science Notes
By Guest Columnist Tom Spies in The Oregonian — Spies is an emeritus scientist with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station. He lives in Corvallis. The devastating wildfires in western Oregon have caused tragic losses of life, homes and forests....
by FSEEE | Sep 10, 2020 | In the News
By Mary Forgione, Christopher Reynolds — With California menaced by fires and shrouded in smoke, state and federal officials have now closed 30 state parks, Highway 1 south of Big Sur and all of the state’s national forests. State parks officials posted most recent...