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Destructive Jellico Mountains Logging Project Withdrawn
In a letter to Kentucky Heartwood, District Ranger Kyle Edmonds announced the withdrawal of the draft “Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Jellico Vegetation Management Project” on the Daniel Boone National Forest. FSEEE, along with Kentucky Heartwood and others, opposed the Jellico Mountains project, which proposed to log mature and old-grow...

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Senator Cassidy Drops Proposal to Carve up Kisatchie, Louisiana’s Only National Forest
Reporting for New Orleans-based Verite News, Tristan Baurick writes that Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy has abandoned his plan to transfer 140,000 acres of Kisatchie National Forest to Grant Parish after his bill “sparked outrage from conservationists and parish leaders.” In the wake of public backlash, Cassidy removed any mention of Kisatchie National Forest from hi...

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Climatologist: Fuel-Reduction Logging is a Trojan Horse
Dr. James Hansen, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and former Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, doesn’t like the Fix Our Forests Act. A Boston Globe op-ed coauthored by Hansen and attorney Dan Galpern questions basic premises of the proposed legislation and calls fuel-reduction logging a “Trojan horse.” “The pretense of […]

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Study Reveals ‘Substantial, Persistent Fire Deficit’
Government agencies and corporate media consistently emphasize the expansion of wildfire acreage caused by a warming climate. Studies that examine only two or three decades of North American fire history support these claims. “Considering these studies, forest managers and the general public may be surprised to learn that a significant fire deficit persists in many […]

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Debunking Early-Successional Habitat Myths
“ A campaign is underway to clear established forests and expand early-successional habitats … with the intention of benefiting specific species.” So begins a 2023 report published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. The authors of that report analyze this forest-management trend with a focus on the Northeast and Upper Great Lakes regions. As […]

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