by FSEEE | Sep 24, 2026 | In the News, Inside FSEEE
Rollback Would Strip Wildlife and Watershed Safeguards from 193 Million Acres of Public Land as the Forest Service Faces an $11.44 Billion Maintenance Backlog and Plans to Cut Two-Thirds of Its Permanent Workforce Washington, DC — Forest Service Employees for...
by FSEEE | Sep 10, 2026 | In the News
Against the backdrop of the Spokane fires, Lauren Sommer with National Public Radio recently reported on the struggles of state governments to enact effective wildfire codes. Sommer spoke with Spokane resident Dave Kokot, whose home was threatened by two of the three...
by FSEEE | Sep 2, 2026 | In the News
U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, a Democrat representing New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, recently issued a press release announcing that she and other members of Congress are seeking an investigation into the prevalence and impacts of toxic heavy...
by FSEEE | Aug 25, 2026 | Briefly, Fire Truth, In the News
The human-caused Hawk Fire in Nevada made headlines after it grew to 15,000 acres from Saturday, Aug. 22, to Sunday, Aug. 23. as winds pushed the flames into parts of northwest Reno. Like a majority of fast-growing fires, the Hawk Fire burned mainly in brush and grass...
by FSEEE | Aug 18, 2026 | In the News
A study published June 11 in Science by Stanford researchers Iván Higuera-Mendieta and Marshall Burke and covered last week by The Washington Post confirms what fire ecologists and Indigenous communities have advocated for generations: low-severity, controlled burning...
