Television & Radio

JMP staff being heard and seen discussing forest ecosystems and forest policy.

KQED FORUM: Federal Wildfire Legislation Sparks Debate on Salvage Logging

August 3, 2015

KWED | Chad Hanson was a guest on the KQED Radio program FORUM discussing how the the so called “Resilient Forest Act of 2015” simply promotes more logging with less oversight at the expense of our native forest ecosystems which evolved with fire and benefit from this natural process. To listen to the Program or submit a comment click the link below.

JEFFERSON PUBLIC RADIO: How Fires — Even Big Ones — Help Forests

July 2, 2015

Jefferson Public Radio | Chad Hanson and Dominick DellaSalla talk about their new book, “The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fire: Nature’s Phoenix”, and discuss why and how federal policy on wildland fire should change so that communities are better protected, firefighters are not put unnecessarily at risk and fire is allowed to improve our ecosystems all while saving billions in taxpayer dollars.

Forest Service Considering King Fire Restoration Options

March 26, 2015

FOX40 News | U.S. Forest Service officials hosted a community meeting in Placerville Wednesday night to discuss King Fire restoration options in the El Dorado National Forest.

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)