The "Fix Our Forests Act" (FOFA) will only continue to endanger communities. Read our latest Substack to revisit comments we received on social media about (how wrong we are regarding) FOFA: https://t.co/dLI8dvJPtF
FOFA would only expand the same flawed paradigm—making these reforms urgent. Big loss: Following the 2020 Thielsen Fire north of Crater Lake National Park, some large, resilient trees were cut down in the name of public safety. Photo: Francis Eatherington
Must-read: https://t.co/49EkgJ2Ak2
Nathan Gilles exposes how the Forest Service has weaponized wildfire prevention tools—emergency authorities, “streamlined” NEPA, stewardship contracts, and the Good Neighbor Authority—
dressed up as “fire mitigation” or “forest health”. The FS should be removed from USDA and replaced with a Department of Ecology to safeguard public lands, forests, watersheds, and fire-adapted ecosystems for people and the diverse flora and fauna that depend on them.
At the end of October, Dr. Chad Hanson joined the Methow Valley Forest Forum as a panelist. Watch and listen as he shares mechanized 'thinning' 'restoration' projects created and pushed by the Forest Service that adversely affect not just our forests, but our communities, too ⤵️
For this next week, please speak up, please call your Senators, if they're on the committee, at (202) 224-3121 and push them to vote against FOFA. Or send a message through our action alert here: https://t.co/Q09zrtO7Ff
Next week, October 21, the Senate Agriculture Committee will markup the “Fix Our Forests Act” (FOFA), S. 1462, a bill that would open the door for widespread logging across federal forests under the false pretense of wildfire prevention.