Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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Our mission is to protect national forests and to reform the U.S. Forest Service by advocating environmental ethics, educating citizens, and defending whistleblowers. FSEEE is made up of thousands of concerned citizens, present, former, and retired Forest Service employees, other government resource managers, and activists working to change the Forest Service's basic land management..
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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March 13, the National Wild Turkey Federation crowed about its “new Participating Agreement with the USDA Forest Service, marking a significant step in bolstering efforts to continue the great work that is being accomplished.” The press release gushed about the Federation’s new funding “entirely from federal dollars authorized in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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Researchers have shown that reforestation in the southeastern U.S. has had a cooling effect on the region. The findings of Mallory Barnes and her associates are documented in a Feb. 13 research article in Earth’s Future, published by the American Geophysical Union. This new research helps explain a “warming hole” over parts of the Southeast ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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Please call and urge your senators and representatives to support Senate Bill 440, the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act, and Senate Bill 162, the Smith River National Recreation Area Expansion Act. Together, these bills will protect vital salmon strongholds and drinking water supplies from strip mining in the Klamath Mountains. The Congressional switchboard phone number is ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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by Grant Werschkull The Smith River watershed in northern California and southern Oregon is a land of superlatives. Ancient redwood forests stand along the lower river as it flows through Redwood National and State parks. The Smith is the only major undammed river in California, and it contains the highest density of Wild and Scenic ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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The Northwest Forest Plan — the world’s largest ecosystem management plan — was adopted in 1994 after President Bill Clinton essentially imposed the Plan on the Forest Service and other reluctant federal agencies. Of the Washington, Oregon, and California lands affected by the Plan, 19.4 million acres (79% ) are on national forests. Operating within ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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by Jim Furnish In my 34-year career at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency worked to support American industry while also maintaining public lands and the renewable resources they foster. That’s why I am shocked to learn that the agency plans to make a fundamental change to how it manages our public lands: allowing private ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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by John Clayton, Writers on the Range When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles from a trailhead. I’d seen grizzlies before—from the car. But this experience was on a whole other level. I felt vulnerable, nervous. I also felt fully alive. That ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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Can the Forest Service Kick its 100-year Addiction to Logging? President Biden was widely praised for Executive Order 14072, which ordered the first-ever national inventory of old-growth and mature forests on federal lands. Issued April 22, 2022 (Earth Day), the order emphasizes “Restoring and Conserving the Nation’s Forests, Including Mature and Old-Growth Forests” and states ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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Among efforts to stave off the rapid decline of whitebark pine trees, researchers have recently sequenced the genome of this keystone species and are publishing their findings. Conifer genomes can be challenging to sequence as they are 3-10 times larger than the human genome. Project lead David Neale, professor emeritus, Plant Sciences Dept., University of ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
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The most current data show 2023 was a relatively quiet fire year. The National Interagency Fire Center reports 54,273 wildfires burned 2,627,112 acres through Dec. 18. While the number of fires was in line with the 10-year average, the number of acres burned was the smallest in more than two decades, dating back to 1998 ..read more