by FSEEE | Jul 18, 2024 | Briefly, Fire Truth
The Darlene 3 Fire started Tuesday, June 25, a mile from the town of La Pine, Oregon, near Bend. Writing for the Capital Press, Morgan Owen and Michael Kohn reported that firefighters responded quickly, establishing “a full perimeter line around the fire Tuesday...
by FSEEE | Jul 16, 2024 | Action Alert
Using an outdated management plan, the Forest Service is set to approve a timber grab on the Daniel Boone National Forest. Please call USDA Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture Meryl Harrell and urge her to protect Kentucky’s Jellico Old-Growth Forest. Call...
by FSEEE | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured Forest
Encompassing a section of the Cumberland Mountains in eastern Kentucky, the 708,000-acre Daniel Boone National Forest features some of the most rugged terrain between the nearby Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains on the far side of the Great Plains....
by FSEEE | Jun 3, 2024 | Featured Forest
The Gila National Forest in New Mexico is home to Earth’s first wilderness area, established by the Forest Service 100 years ago today and 40 years before the Wilderness Act was signed into law. Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service supervisor working in New Mexico at the...
by FSEEE | May 7, 2024 | Briefly, Fire Truth
In August 2020, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned through Big Basin Redwoods State Park near Santa Cruz, California, consuming all of the foliage on some of the oldest redwoods. “It was shocking…. It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die,”...
by FSEEE | Apr 29, 2024 | Briefly
Researchers have shown that reforestation in the southeastern U.S. has had a cooling effect on the region. The findings of Mallory Barnes and her associates are documented in a Feb. 13 research article in Earth’s Future, published by the American Geophysical Union....
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2024 | Dispatch
Reaching 11,918 feet above sea level, Mt. Charleston is the highest peak in the Spring Mountains, a forested oasis on the Toiyabe National Forest west of Las Vegas. Because of its high elevation and drastically different ecosystem than the surrounding Mojave Desert,...
by FSEEE | Apr 17, 2024 | Action Alert
Please call and urge your senators and representatives to support Senate Bill 440, the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act, and Senate Bill 162, the Smith River National Recreation Area Expansion Act. Together, these bills will protect vital salmon strongholds and...
by FSEEE | Mar 7, 2024 | Dispatch, In the News
The Northwest Forest Plan — the world’s largest ecosystem management plan — was adopted in 1994 after President Bill Clinton essentially imposed the Plan on the Forest Service and other reluctant federal agencies. Of the Washington, Oregon, and California lands...
by FSEEE | Feb 1, 2024 | Briefly
Among efforts to stave off the rapid decline of whitebark pine trees, researchers have recently sequenced the genome of this keystone species and are publishing their findings. Conifer genomes can be challenging to sequence as they are 3-10 times larger than the human...
