FORESTS FOREVER

"Prof Richard Peltier, the senior author of the research, said: 'For the most part, wood burning produces significant amounts of particle air pollution, and a small but measurable fraction of this is a powerful neurotoxicant.'”

Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find Study of samples from seven winters suggests neurotoxic metal coming from wood itself rather than old paint

"Documents Wilderness Watch obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate the Forest Service wasn’t being forthright and the Idaho proposal is part of a nationwide effort to let commercial outfitters run chainsaws throughout protected Wilderness areas. According to internal emails, the agency is bringing in an outside contractor to 'help address the chainsaws in wilderness issue at the national scale.'”

Freedom of Information Act records reveal U.S. Forest Service considering nationwide chainsaw use in Wilderness Conservation organizations, trail groups, and retired agency wilderness specialists express strong opposition to requests from commercial outfitters and guides for chainsaw use in Wilderness

"Managers at various locations have already lifted prohibitions on hunting stands that damage trees and training hunting dogs, using vehicles to retrieve animals and hunting along trails, according to an NPCA review of site regulations the organization recently performed after learning of the order."

Trump is lifting restrictions on hunting in national parks, refuges and wilderness areas President Donald Trump's administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions.

"Characterized by extremely low precipitation, deserts are found on every continent and cover about one-third of Earth’s land."

"This visualization ranks and maps the world’s largest deserts by area, based on data from WorldAtlas, showing how Earth’s biggest dry regions range from ice sheets to subtropical basins."

Ranked: The World's Largest Deserts This ranking and map of the world's 10 largest deserts shows that the two largest deserts are polar, covering Antarctica and the Arctic.

The disingenuously named "Save Our Sequoias Act" employs debunked science and outright lies to argue that wildfire threatens to drive the sequoias to extinction, when the opposite is true. Sequoias need fire—very hot fire—to best reproduce and thrive.

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www.forestsforever.org

"Alito does not own stock in either ExxonMobil or Suncor Energy, according to his most recent financial disclosure report, which was filed last year. But at that time, he did hold stock in oil companies ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66, as well as five other firms involved in the energy sector, his financial disclosure report says."

Justice Alito pushes back on calls to sit out a major Supreme Court climate case The conservative justice has no financial conflict that would require him to recuse himself from the case, a court spokeswoman told NBC News.

"The investigation also reported that a U.S. Forest Service safety assessment relied heavily on a study later retracted after allegations that it had been ghostwritten by employees of Monsanto, the agrochemical company best known for producing glyphosate-based herbicides before being acquired by Bayer in 2018."

Lake Tahoe’s fire restoration plan includes controversial herbicide use across thousand of acres LAKE TAHOE BASIN, Calif. – A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones is casting new scrutiny on the use of glyphosate in California forests at the same time the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management...

"We ask the public to call their senators and urge them to oppose the Fix Our Forests Act (S. 1462). Alternatively, we ask congress and the public to support the Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act (H.R. 582 / S. 3609), a bill that would focus funding on scientifically supported and proven wildfire mitigation strategies."

The Hidden "Fix Our Forests Act" Loophole Putting Logging Projects Above Environmental Laws

"Logging to halt the cutting of a two-acre state-managed parcel around the Sadie Creek campground. Webster paid the Department of Natural Resources half of those funds, which will be divided between the agency and county beneficiaries."

Fundraising effort saves patch of state-managed forest in western WA from logging • Washington State Standard Environmental activists have raised the $32,000 needed to spare the trees surrounding a campground on the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula from logging.

"Our sequoias are being harmed by human activities, including logging and climate change. Cutting and burning our forests only brings more heat, aridity, and wind, and therefore, the risk of more severe fire. What we are doing is speeding up their demise. If we truly want to 'save' our sequoias, we need to stop logging and burning projects and finally address climate change."

Giant Sequoia Cut Down - June 3rd, 2021 Tulare County decided to cut down this giant sequoia located in Alder Creek Grove after it was reported to still be on fire (from the 2020 SQF Complex / Cast...