Posts tagged climate change

Maybe we need to start naming these devastating wildfires after members of Congress that refuse to support forest restoration pace and scale.

This is part 3 of our series “It’s time to declare war on wildfire”.  You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. In …

This is Part 2 of our series “It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire.” Part 1 can be found here. This section begins with Rob …

It might be the Christmas season, but you’d never know it from the volume of angry email we’re getting concerning the West’s wildfire pandemic. The …

The immediate need is to rebuild the forestry side of the Forest Service. This means that Republicans and Democrats in the next Congress need to find an extra $5 billion in Fiscal 2021. Funds must be specifically allocated for forestry staffing and forest management – not wildfire.

The Forest Service’s boots-on-the-ground ranks have been decimated over the last 15 years. Lots of new people will need to be hired and trained. It will take at least a decade to restore the skill sets needed to do the necessary forest restoration work at the required pace and scale. Fire ecologists I know tell me we have a 30-year window before wildfire takes what we have not treated. If we accept 90 million acres restored as our 30-year target, we need to thin three million acres annually.

Editor’s Note: Evergreen Readers will be familiar with our colleague, Michael Rains, one of the finest minds the U.S. Forest Service ever employed. Now retired …

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Editor’s note: This is the last segment of a five-part interview with Michael T. Rains, who was Director of the Northern Research Station at Newtown …

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