Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
151 FOLLOWERS
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
1M ago
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
2M ago
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
2M ago
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
2M ago
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
2M ago
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
3M ago
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
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
3M ago
The Mount Hood National Forest encompasses 1.1 million acres, with about a third of those acres designated as wilderness within eight wilderness areas. The Forest has a rich history and offers year-round recreation opportunities. Its watersheds provide drinking water to more than a million people in the greater Portland area. Mount Hood, an active stratovolcano ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
4M ago
The Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Senate Bill 1254) achieved an important milestone when it cleared the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Committee Dec. 14. Sen. Patty Murray (D, Wash.) first introduced the bill in 2012 and reintroduced it yet again in April along with House co-sponsor Rep. Derek ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
5M ago
While there’s no historical evidence that Nero “fiddled while Rome burned,” there’s been plenty of fiddling in our forests while homes and communities burn in the American West. Jack Cohen has not been fiddling. His decades-long research at the Forest Service Missoula Fire Sciences Lab has dispelled commonly espoused wildfire myths and demonstrates that people ..read more
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
5M ago
The Forest Service has the kind of problem that most of us wish we suffered from. It has more money than it can spend. Thanks to exceedingly generous appropriations by Congress to fix the Wildfire Crisis (sic), the agency is awash in cash. So what could be the problem with too much money? Just hire ..read more