by FSEEE | Jul 4, 2023 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
FSEEE is featured on the front page of the July 3 issue of the Los Angeles Times in Hayley Smith’s article about fire retardant. Smith accurately points out some of the problems with Phos-Chek, the widely used red retardant that contains ammonium phosphate....
by FSEEE | Jun 15, 2023 | Action Alert, Briefly, Fire Truth
Elemental is a new documentary about wildfire in the drought-prone West. Directed by Trip Jennings, the film brings together respected experts from across the board — firefighters, wildfire survivors, research ecologists, indigenous elders, fire scientists, wildlife...
by Guest Author | Jun 4, 2023 | Fire Truth, Guest Author, Science Notes
by Andy Kerr As public lands conservationists continue their fight to save the last of the mature and old-growth forests for the benefit of this and future generations, we must not forget the preforests. In 1988, fires in Yellowstone National Park caused the media to...
by FSEEE | May 30, 2023 | Fire Truth, Victories
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ruled in our favor in our lawsuit challenging Forest Service use of aerial fire retardant, affirming that dumping the toxic slurry into water violates the Clean Water Act and that the Forest Service must acquire a Clean Water Act...
by Joe Stone | May 25, 2023 | Fire Truth, In Depth
How a Community Planning Project Spawned a Forest Health Collaborative Christopher Ketcham’s guest column in the Fall 2022 edition of Forest News struck a chord with me. Ketcham’s column, excerpted from his book, This Land, reveals how forest health collaboratives...
