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“Boiling Point”: How a Prominent Climate Podcast is Being Used as a Forum for Climate Greenwashing and Methodological Manipulations (opens the original)
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[Author’s Note: From the outset here, I’ll acknowledge that this article is arguably a bit long. However, if you care about forests, climate change, and scientific integrity, as I do, then I encourage you to read it, completely. Because you are being lied to, and I think you should know how, why, and by whom.]The new climate change deniers aren’t who you may think they are. They aren’t popping off about how climate change is a hoax. They aren’t ignorant, or obvious. They are smart, educated, and
A Shadowy “Coalition” is Destroying Giant Sequoia Groves on Public Lands (opens the original)
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Chad Hanson, Ph.D., Wildfire ScientistJohn Muir Project(www.johnmuirproject.org)As I write this, a shadowy coalition is making substantial sums of money exploiting and destroying giant sequoia groves on public lands and lying about it. The “Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition” (GSLC), comprised of federal and California land management agencies and other entities financially involved in logging, is currently clearcutting old-growth stands, conducting large post-fire clearcut logging projects, and lo
When Your Backyard Burns (opens the original)
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Fire has become a large part of my life. I work for a forest and fire science non-profit organization. I enjoy backpacking through snag forest habitats. I spend much of my time thinking about how wildfire shapes forests, shrublands, and other wildlife habitat—and how we can better coexist with it. Wild ecosystems evolved with fire of varying intensities. Low-, moderate-, and high-intensity fire create different habitats and successional conditions across fire-adapted landscapes. It’s well-known
Stop Celebrating the Loophole (opens the original)
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This administration is trying to gut the Roadless Rule, and that fight is real. But the mainstream pushback is uninspiring. Citing that thirty-four percent of Forest Service “treatment” activity happened inside roadless areas, as groups have this Congress, isn’t a defense of these forests. It’s proof the loophole already lets a lot through, offered up like a selling point instead of the problem it is. That loophole permits cutting “generally small diameter timber,” a phrase
Protecting Communities (opens the original)
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Instead of focusing limited resources on backcountry vegetation management, we need to shift our efforts toward strategies that are proven to increase home survival and community protection—home hardening, defensible space pruning, and evacuation planning. Watch our full interview with NBC 6 South Florida.
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