Wildfire
The most ecologically rational and fiscally prudent course is to eschew thinning before reintroducing fire into fire-dependent forests.
Read MoreBlumenauer’s bill would open up Mount Hood National Forest to new logging loopholes.
Read MoreFigure 1. Goodbye, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Source: Wikipedia.
Fortunately, the Trump administration was generally so grossly incompetent at governing that most of the Trumpian rollbacks were, are being, or can be overturned through a combination of executive, judicial, and congressional actions.
Read MoreThe seven-member Oregon Board of Forestry will decide next Tuesday, October 6, whether to proceed in seeking a habitat management plan and concurrent incidental take permit for sixteen imperiled species that inhabit western Oregon state forests.
Read MoreFigure 1. There is lots of money to be spent by taxpayers and made by the fire-industrial complex. Fires boost the local economy. Source: National Interagency Fire Center.
The fire-industrial complex needs to be redirected to only set fires on wildlands and only put out fires on buildings.
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