by FSEEE | Oct 16, 2025 | Briefly
A recently published paper reveals old-growth resilience to climate shifts in the Amazon Basin. “Our results can be understood as a sign of the resilience of Amazonian forests, showing that any impacts of climate change on larger trees have been more than alleviated...
by FSEEE | Oct 4, 2025 | Briefly, Fire Truth
Mass layoffs, deferred resignation offers, and other policies from a hostile administration eliminated record numbers of Forest Service employees earlier this year. Firefighters were supposedly exempt from these job cuts, but Forest Service firefighters, already...
by FSEEE | Sep 21, 2025 | Dispatch
Forests cover much of the American South, but the region does not have an abundance of national forests. However, Caddo Lake in northeastern Texas boasts impressive bald cypress forests in its shallow, mysterious waters and is recognized as a wetland of international...
by FSEEE | Sep 14, 2025 | Dispatch
The Forest Service and other federal agencies have missed the deadline of Sept. 10, to implement President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14308 mandating consolidation of federal firefighting into a single agency in the Department of Interior. Citing...
by FSEEE | Sep 11, 2025 | Briefly
During a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association in New Mexico, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the Department of Agriculture is rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule. “This outdated administrative rule contradicts the will of Congress and...
by FSEEE | Sep 4, 2025 | Briefly, Fire Truth
Regarded as “one of the most significant ecological crises facing land managers in the arid West,” invasive cheatgrass has increased fire frequency in the Great Basin from once every 30-70 years to every 3-10 years. As Aldo Leopold observes in A Sand County Almanac,...
by FSEEE | Aug 28, 2025 | Briefly
As reported by The Colorado Sun, wild turkeys are thriving in the eastern half of Colorado to the point of becoming a nuisance in towns and cities. Merriam’s turkeys are native to the foothills and mountains of Colorado, but the population explosion is occurring among...
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...
