Posts by Rachel Fazio
ACTION ALERT: Tell Sierra Nevada Conservancy – #ProtectRimFire Forests and Wildlife from Logging
Nature’s Resiliency on full display in Rim Fire. Don’t Cut down my home for biomass energy!
Read MoreACTION NEEDED: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Biomass Logging Threatens Rim Fire Burn Area Recovery!
May 3, 2018: In 2013 the Rim Fire burned 257,000 acres in/near Yosemite, now the resilience of our native forests is on full display!
Read MoreRepublican’s 2018 Farm Bill: Forget Nutrition, Let’s Cutdown our Public Land Forests Instead!
April 27, 2018: In a partisan move, Republicans in Congress have decided that instead of being the lungs of our planet, or, you know, ecosystems which give us clean air, clean water, offer the best carbon storage and sequestration and provide refuge for both wildlife and people alike, our Forests are crops and only…
Read MoreProtecting America’s Forests From Logging is Necessary to Reach Climate Goals
April 25, 2018: Climate Change is happening, temperature on the Earth is rising, in fact 17 U.S. towns are starting to relocate due to climate caused sea level rise. So how does forest protection factor into this equation? Most people understand that protecting rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia is essential to combat the impacts of…
Read MoreACTION ALERT: Congress Rollsback Environmental Laws In Bad Omnibus Deal – Call Senators Today
It is not Christmas, but Congress has a big gift for the timber industry in its newly proposed must pass (by this Friday, March 23rd at midnight no less) Omnibus Appropriations Bill which contains anti-environmental policy provisions that would expedite Logging on National Forests – exempting, through a Categorical Exclusion (“CE”) logging projects as…
Read MoreEnvironmental Groups To Congress: Wildfire “Funding Fix” Will Not Help Forests Or Communities
March 19, 2018: Today, forest protection organizations from around the country sent a letter to Congress detailing why the so called “Wildfire Disaster Funding Act” fails to fix any issues related to wildland fire. It would not protect communities, it would not lower costs, and it would harm our public forests. The text of…
Read MoreCongressional “Fire Funding Fix” Proposals Bad Deal for the Environment, Scientists Say
MARCH 16, 2018: Today over 200 Scientists sent a letter to Congress urging them to walk away from behind-closed-door Omnibus Appropriation bargaining to bring into existence a so called “Fix” for the way that wildfire suppression is funded by the Federal Government. Current backroom proposals run the gamut of authorizing billions of dollars each year…
Read MoreLittle Hoover Committee Report Ignores Best Available Science in Favor of Logging
Governor Brown’s Little Hoover Commission released a Report this week “Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada”. Unfortunately this report is often factually inaccurate, ignores science and simply pushes for more logging to prop up dwindling rural economies. The John Muir Project submitted extremely detailed comments and attended public meetings –…
Read MoreForest ‘Restoration’ Rule is Ruse to Increase Logging
January 31, 2018
By Chad Hanson
San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed
The U.S. Forest Service recently proposed a sweeping effort to identify aspects of environmental analysis and public participation to be “reduced” or “eliminated” regarding commercial logging projects in our national forests, with initial public comments due Friday. The Trump administration is attempting to spin this as an effort to promote “increased efficiency” for the expansion of forest “restoration,” but these are just euphemisms for more destructive logging.
Read MoreNew Study: Post-Fire Logging is a Threat to California Spotted Owl
BIG BEAR CITY, California (18 Jan 2018)- Wildlife ecologists studying the rare spotted owl in the forests of California have discovered that large, intense wildfires are not responsible for abandonment of breeding territories. Instead, the researchers found that post-fire logging operations, which are common on both private and National Forest lands, most likely caused declines…
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