Staff Articles

Articles, Opinion Editorials (Op-Eds) and Letter's to the Editor about forest related issues authored by John Muir Project Staff and our allies.

Wildfire’s Role in the Life of a Forest

July 9, 2008
By Chad Hanson, Ph.D.
San Francisco Chronicle

Bonnicksen states, “The wildfire crisis is becoming more serious each year. Fires are getting bigger and more destructive, killing wildlife and polluting the air as well.”

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Logging Industry Misleads on Forest Fires and Climate Change

July 9, 2008
By Chad Hanson, Ph.D.
CounterPunch

Recent editorials by timber industry spokespersons are a wildly misleading attempt to promote increased logging of western U.S. forests under the guise of reducing wildland fires and mitigating climate change.

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Sierra Standoff – Chad Hanson Derails Forest Service Plans To Log

September 9, 2002
By Chad Hanson, Ph.D.
Sacramento News and Review

Was the Forest Service claiming portions of Lassen National Forest were dead just so it could allow commercial logging to proceed? It was, until Chad Hanson came along.

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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)