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JMP and Partners Sue Forest Service Over Giant Logging Project Masquerading as ‘Community Protection’
Media Contact: Josh Hart, Spokesperson, Feather River Action! [email protected] Chad Hanson, Ph.D., Ecologist John Muir Project [email protected], 530-273-9290 John Preschutti, Plumas Forest Project [email protected] Community Groups Sue U.S. Forest Service over Unprecedented Plumas Forest Logging Plan that Would Increase Rural Towns’ Wildfire Vulnerability The Massive $650 Million Logging Project Targets Mature and Old-Growth Forest, While…
Read MoreSuppressing Wildfires is Harming California’s Giant Sequoia Trees
By Adam Popescu
NewScientist: Life
Recent years have seen some of the largest wildfires in California’s history, and one of the best approaches to limiting their damage is controlled burns that reduce natural fuel for the fires. But now, it seems these burns are destroying the state’s iconic sequoia trees.
Read MoreJMP and Colleagues Publish Landmark Study Finding Giant Sequoias Regenerate Best in High-Severity Fire Areas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Landmark Study Finds Giant Sequoias Thrive in Severe Wildfire Areas Contact: Chad Hanson, Ph.D., [email protected], 530-273-9290 Tonja Chi, M.S., [email protected] Maya Khosla, M.S., [email protected] Bryant Baker, M.S., [email protected] Michael Dorsey, Ph.D., [email protected] A new scientific study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Ecology and Evolution, reports that iconic giant sequoias in California’s…
Read MoreOver 200 Scientists and Over 200 Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Protect Mature and Old-Growth Forests for Real
In early 2024, over 200 scientists and over 200 environmental and environmental justice groups signed letters to the Biden Administration, urging the Administration to completely protect all mature and old-growth forests on federal public lands from logging, including “thinning”, and regardless of the reasons that federal land agencies claim for wanting to sell public trees…
Read MoreForest Service Sued for Approving Plumas Forest Logging Project
By Samantha Hawkins
Bloomberg Law
The US Forest Service approved a logging project in the Plumas National Forest without adequately assessing its environmental effects, environmental groups said in a lawsuit filed Friday in California federal court. The $650 million Central/West Slope Project plans to log and burn 217,721 acres of mature and old-growth habitat in Plumas National Forest, located in the northern Sierra Nevadas, John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute and other groups said in the lawsuit.
Read MoreCBS News Spot on JMP’s Unprecedented Research on Giant Sequoias and Wildfires
KPIX | CBS News Bay Area | A recent study outlines how wildland fires are an important factor in saving California’s giant sequoias.
Read MoreTeam of Researchers Find Wildfire is Future to Saving California’s Giant Sequoias
CBS13 News | Wildfires were once seen as the downfall of the treasured giant sequoia trees in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, but a team of researchers with the John Muir Project released a recent study outlining how they could be our best shot at saving them.
Read MoreTeam of Researchers Find Wildfire is Future to Saving California’s Giant Sequoias
By Hunter Sowards
CBS13 News
Wildfires were once seen as the downfall of the treasured giant sequoia trees in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, but a team of researchers with the John Muir Project released a recent study outlining how they could be our best shot at saving them.
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