by FSEEE | Aug 24, 2025 | Briefly, Fire Truth
Researchers Max Moritz and Luca Carmignani have penned an article raising concerns about a California plan to ban plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety. “As scientists who study how vegetation ignites and burns, we recognize that well-maintained plants and...
by FSEEE | Jul 27, 2025 | Featured Forest
At 3.36 million acres, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge is Montana’s largest national forest. The Forest provides habitat for 355 species of birds, including bald eagles, sandhill cranes, golden eagles, and trumpeter swans, the largest waterfowl in North America. President...
by FSEEE | Jul 8, 2025 | Dispatch, Fire Truth
Citing “the devastation of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires,” President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14308 on June 12, 2025, mandating the consolidation of federal firefighting under a single agency. Trump’s EO echoes his “Big, Beautiful...
by FSEEE | Jun 29, 2025 | Action Alert
Senate Bill 1672 targets our hard-won legal victories. If signed into law, the bill would exempt aerial fire retardant from the Clean Water Act. Just last year, USC scientists proved that retardant is toxic waste containing cadmium, vanadium, chromium, and other heavy...
by FSEEE | May 19, 2025 | FSEEE in the News
Jordan Hansen, writing for The Daily Montanan, was the first to report on FSEEE’s latest aerial fire retardant lawsuit. Hansen acknowledges the USC study that provides the scientific basis for he lawsuit. “A study by the University of Southern California...
by FSEEE | May 11, 2025 | Briefly, Fire Truth
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics filed another federal lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over the agency’s use of aerial fire retardant on May 7. In this latest complaint, FSEEE alleges that the Forest Service’s use of fire retardant...
by FSEEE | Apr 30, 2025 | Briefly
Various studies have shown that forests act as a buffer to climate extremes, creating micro-climates that support forest resilience and biodiversity. The authors of a new study, “Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2025 | Briefly
In a statement to investors, Compass Minerals announced that it “has decided to wind down its fire retardant business, Fortress North America,” as “part of a larger strategic refocus to improve the profitability of the company’s core Salt and Plant Nutrition...
by FSEEE | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured Forest
Located in northwestern Pennsylvania, the Allegheny is the state’s only national forest, established in 1923. The 514,029-acre Forest sits on the Allegheny Plateau and features: Two wilderness areas, Hickory Creek and Allegheny Islands. Two national scenic areas,...
by FSEEE | Apr 18, 2025 | Briefly
The extralegal firing of Forest Service employees by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” will undermine the agency’s firefighting capabilities. Musk’s pseudo-agency claimed that firefighters were exempt from the purge, but as reported by Kylie Mohr in...
