Posts by Bekah Mamola
La Tala de “Reducción de Combustible” Aumenta la Intensidad de los Incendios Forestales y Pone a las Comunidades en Mayor Riesgo
How a California Community Helped Prevent the Bridge Fire From Destroying Their Town
September 23, 2024
By Chad Hanson
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed
In recent years, Wrightwood got very serious about community fire-safety measures. Long before the Bridge fire began, the local Fire Safe Council held educational events, coordinating with multiple agencies and governments. They promoted the importance of simple “home hardening” measures to make homes more fireproof, such as sweeping pine needles and leaves off of roofs and installing modern exterior vents that prevent flaming embers from entering houses.
Read MoreOrganizations Call on Biden Administration to Protect Mature and Old-Growth Forests from Logging
JMP et al. Comments on Biden Administration Mature and Old-Growth Forest DEIS
Wildfire Prevention – What’s Working and What Needs Improvement?
KTLA | Dr. Chad Hanson is in the studio discussing state and federal wildfire prevention efforts–what’s working and where improvements are needed. He compares traditional wildfire management approaches to the John Muir Project’s focus on community-driven fire prevention, emphasizing strategies like home hardening and defensible space to help protect homes from wildfires, making them more fire-proof.
Read MoreThis is the Likely Cause of Massive ‘Line Fire’ Ravaging Over 20,000 Acres in California: Expert
Forbes Breaking News | Dr. Chad Hanson joined Cat Oriel on “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss the Line Fire spreading across Southern California and the issues with federal & state-level efforts to prevent and fight wildfires.
Read MoreFirefighting Tactics in California Need to Change, An Expert Tells KNX News
KNX News
Hanson, author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, said, “[CAL Fire and the US Forest Service] do some things that are really helpful and are very productive and effective and some things that are not. So it’s really kind of a mixed bag.”
Read MoreWORLDFIRE – Chapter 16, Part I: A Green Fire Rising
Coming Home to Gaia, Tom Weis | As explained by one of the world’s top wildfire authorities, Chad Hanson, in his eye-opening book, SMOKESCREEN (which should be on every forester’s bookshelf): “[F]ire-adapted forest ecosystems evolved with fire and depend on it. Excluding fire from these ecosystems is like trying to keep rain out of a rainforest.” Hanson reminds us that mixed-intensity forest fires are natural and have been occurring since time immemorial.
Read MoreLogging Industry’s Wildfire Claims are Misleading the Public
August 12, 2024
By Chad Hanson
The Hill Op-Ed
The Park Fire in northern California has reached approximately 400,000 acres in size, and already logging industry advocates are pushing out misinformation about the fire in an attempt to promote their deceptively-named Fix Our Forests Act logging bill. The timber industry’s political apologists tell us that the Park Fire grew so big, so fast ostensibly because public forestlands are “overgrown” and in need of “thinning.”
Read MoreUpcoming Webinar Series: Discover Nature’s Phoenix
Discover the Wonders of Nature’s Phoenix Second Edition! We are thrilled to announce the release of the extensively updated 2nd edition of Nature’s Phoenix. This new edition is once again co-edited and authored by Wild Heritage’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Dominick DellaSala & John Muir Project’s Director and Principal Ecologist, Dr. Chad Hanson, with contributions from…
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