On April 14th this week Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced the Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA). The bill – which is presented as a measure against wildfire – could open the door to unlimited logging across millions of acres of national forests, erode environmental laws, and make it harder for members of… (read more)
I’m writing about forest protection this month, and I wanted to look at forest advocates, and that led me to Cascadia Wildlands, a grassroots conservation organization based in Eugene, and focused on the Cascadia bioregion, the forest zone extending along the Pacific Coast from northern California to south-central Alaska. Cascadia Wildlands is known for innovative and effective campaigns through advocacy, outreach,… (read more)
I’ve written quite a bit about forests in our EFM blog over the years (October 2023 and August 2024). I’m led to review and update now because our forests (like everything else we hold dear) are under new threat. On March 1, 2025, President Trump issued a pair of Executive Orders aimed at promoting domestic production of… (read more)
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