In The News

News articles that feature John Muir Project activities or quotes from JMP staff.

Fire Suppression and Illegal Marijuana Cultivation Threaten Rare Pacific Fishers

February 27, 2014

By Christie Turner
High Country News

The Pacific fisher, a small, carnivorous forest-dwelling mammal, is a candidate for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act this year, and big wildfire could be to blame – or rather, the lack of it.

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Study Challenges Views About Western Forest Fires

July 20, 2012

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
Missoulian

Scientists using field notes from surveys first conducted by the government before the Civil War believe they’ve gained a better understanding of how Western wildfires behaved historically.

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Protection Sought for Rare Woodpecker

May 2, 2012

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
The Spokesman-Review

Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that’s survived for millions of years is in danger of going extinct.

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The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. … So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.

John Muir, "The National Parks and Forest Reservations" in a speech by John Muir
(Proceedings of the Meeting of the Sierra Club Held November 23, 1895.) Published in Sierra Club Bulletin, (1896)