by FSEEE | Jul 21, 2026 | Action Alert, In the News
The Bureau of Land Management announced Friday that it will auction 41 oil and gas parcels totaling 2,840 acres in the Wayne National Forest on September 15. This lease sale would bring modern hydraulic fracturing to Ohio’s only national forest for the first...
by FSEEE | Jul 20, 2026 | FS Reorganization, In the News
In Ely, Minnesota, last week, the Air Quality Index (AQI) hit 797.5, nearly triple the threshold for “hazardous,” and the highest reading the state has ever recorded. State climatologists are calling it the most intense wildfire smoke event Minnesota has...
by FSEEE | Jul 19, 2026 | Featured Forest
Located on the Olympic Peninsula in the northwest corner of Washington, Olympic National Forest encompasses more than 2 million acres and surrounds much of Olympic National Park. Within the national forest’s borders lies a striking diversity of landscapes, ranging...
by FSEEE | Jul 15, 2026 | Dispatch, In the News
Trump cuts the two national monuments by 90%. On Monday, July 13, President Trump signed a pair of executive orders cutting nearly 3 million acres out of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah. That is roughly 90 percent of the...
by FSEEE | Jul 14, 2026 | Briefly, FSEEE in the News, Science Notes
CQ Researcher just published a report titled “Wildfire Management: Are new strategies needed as fire risks grow?” that takes a wide-angle look at how Canada and the U.S. are (and aren’t) adapting their wildfire strategies as fire seasons grow longer,...
by FSEEE | Jul 12, 2026 | Fire Truth, In the News
In the mountains near the Colorado/Utah border, five federal firefighters deployed emergency fire shelters as flames overran their position. Three did not survive. Their deaths have pulled back the curtain on a set of sweeping changes to how the U.S. fights wildfire —...
by FSEEE | Jul 10, 2026 | In Depth, In the News
A single logging project in western Oregon has become the test case for a legal theory that, if it holds up in court, could put the management of hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land in question. Cascadia Wildlands, a Eugene-based grassroots...
by FSEEE | Jul 3, 2026 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
An article by Emily Gardner published by the American Geophysical Union in Eos highlights FSEEE Executive Director Kevin Hood’s concerns about recent changes to the U.S. Forest Service. The article reports that historic drought, record-low snowpack, and extreme...
by FSEEE | Jun 29, 2026 | Dispatch, Fire Truth
Across the United States, communities are working to prepare for a future shaped by more frequent floods, wildfires, droughts, and extreme weather events. From wildfire-prone neighborhoods in Colorado to flood-vulnerable towns in Mississippi, many communities rely on...
by FSEEE | Jun 23, 2026 | Dispatch, Fire Truth, Science Notes
Among members of the Karuk Tribe, whose ancestral lands encompass present-day Happy Camp (Athithúfvuunupma), California, fire is recognized not as an enemy but as one of the oldest teachers. For thousands of years, the Karuk have used low-intensity cultural burning to...
