Logjam – The Supply Chain Problem
Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that’s primed to burn—and they need foresters, loggers, and mills to reduce that risk. Download full article by clicking the link below.
California’s giant sequoias are burning up. Will logging save them
KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Every June, Tony Caprio and his wife, Linda, hike into the Sugarbowl — a cluster of giant sequoias high in the Sierra Nevada — to admire the profusion of wildflowers and walk among some of the oldest and tallest trees on the planet. Now…
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Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon
A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070 By Minho Kim, E&E News on July 26, 2023 CLIMATEWIRE I U.S. forests could worsen global warming instead of easing it because they are being destroyed by natural disasters and are losing their ability to…
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Were We Stand
As professionals working passionately to promote forest health and protect communities from wildfire, we are compelled to provide a response to the letter to the editor that was published July 10, 2023 that perpetuates misinformation*. In California, much of this misinformation relies on a small body of agenda-driven science that…
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Wildfires, climate change put California forests at tipping point
Many of the state’s 20th century policies do not work in today’s world By Matt Dias and Julee Malinowski-ball Published: March 8, 2022 at 5:15 a.m. The last two years have been California’s most destructive fire seasons. Thirty-six people lost their lives, and more than 14,000 structures were destroyed or…
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California’s Wildfire Crisis is a Rallying Cry for Help. Let’s Answer the Call.
As I wrote this piece, I glanced outside and saw what so many other Californians saw on the morning of August 18: an orange sun, a greyscale sky, and an endless cloud of ash particles. This is all the compelling evidence anyone in our state needs to conclude that we…
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Climate Change
The Earth’s climate has always been changing. There have been four ice ages in the past 450,000 years. Surprisingly, analyses of mile-deep ice cores taken from the Greenland ice sheet in the late 1900s has shown that during the last ice age between 18,000 to 80,000 years ago there were…
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Policy & Regulation
All forest practices in California are highly regulated. Public land administered by the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are governed by a nine landmark laws of which The Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act, 1960; The Wilderness Act, 1964; the Endangered Species Act, 1973; and the National Forest…
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Sustainable Forest Management
What is meant by “sustainability”? The generally-accepted definition was framed in 1987 by the United Nations Brundtland Commission1 “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. But this isn’t as simple as it might sound: meeting what needs and for…
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Wildlife Management
Due to its unique topographic diversity including coastal areas, deserts, mountains, vegetative cover, and Mediterranean climate, California is one of the most biologically diverse places in the world and consequently has unusual wildlife diversity. Native wildlife species include about 68 amphibians, 429 birds, 185 mammals, and over 27,000 terrestrial invertebrates …
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