Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stacks and piles of recently harvested trees in backcountry forest area. The Fix Our Forests Act act isn’t forest management. It’s ...

When bad things are happening, we naturally feel a strong urge to do something, anything, in response. Unfortunately, if we fail to think through our panicky response, we may end up making things ...

America’s public forests are under assault. We have already seen the massive timber harvests called for by President Trump’s executive order, the elimination of the Roadless Rule, and the gutting of ...

America’s public forests are in increasing danger. The Fix Our Forest Act (FOFA), which essentially opens up millions of acres of forest to logging in the name of wildfire prevention, is scheduled for ...

Here in Western Colorado, we don’t need another summer of smoke to remind us that wildfire season isn’t what it used to be. Communities across the Western Slope need scientifically sound, effective ...

Walk into the heart of the Deschutes National Forest in the summer and usually you can feel it and see it. The duff is a weave of dry carpet. The shrubs and pines may not be suffering, but they could ...

As shown by recent fires, our forests face an escalating crisis of catastrophic wildfires, intensified by years of fire suppression and climate change, which the Fix Our Forests Act aims to address ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At first glance, the logic behind the Fix Our Forests Act makes a twisted sort of sense and the scientific backdrop behind the act is real. A century of ...

America’s public forests are under assault. We have already seen the massive timber harvests called for by President Trump’s executive order, the elimination of the Roadless Rule, and the gutting of ...

The deceptively named Fix Our Forests Act, recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives awaits a floor vote in the Senate. To their credit, both Reps. Teresa Leger-Fernández and Melanie Stansbury ...