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Massive Crater Lake Wilderness Area Fantasy
Oregon Wild has proposed a massive half million acre Wilderness Area, partly to “protect” Crater Lake. The Klamath County Commissioners are saying no, with fears that summer fires would affect public...
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Wood Stoves, Pollution and Climate Change from the New Scientist
This article in New Scientist (UK-based) is a bit of a public service announcement, or item of curiousity, for wood stove owners. It’s also interesting how they look at the climate effects. The New...
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New Study About Forests Impacted by Extreme Mortality
http://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/bix146/4797261 Massive tree mortality has occurred rapidly in frequent-fire-adapted forests of the Sierra Nevada, California....
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Choo-Choo To the Rescue: The Rio Grande National Forest, Spruce Beetle Kill...
Spruce beetle damage from Colorado State Forest Service This story is interesting because of the creativity of the people involved, and the unusual partnership with the railroad, from a reporter at the...
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Sierra Club Comments
I have seen a trend in postings from the Sierra Club, on their Facebook page. Online petitions have been popular with eco-groups but, those petitions really don’t do anything. They seem to be a way of...
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Slash Piles Burned in the Air or for Bioenergy: Example from British Columbia
Forest companies regularly burn slash piles after harvesting a site for lumber and pulp. Bioenergy companies say slash burning is a waste because they could use the waste material to create pellets.–...
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Sequoia ForestKeepers Weigh in on HUD Grant for Stanislaus National Forest...
Volunteer from Tuolumne River Trust working on Rim Fire restoration.Ara Mardosarian of Sequoia ForestKeeper posted this as a comment on an earlier thread. Since it is specific and about something new,...
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Wood Pellets, Southern Forests, and Bottomland Hardwoods
Enviva’s wood pellet production plant in Ahoskie, N.C., is booming because of the European Union’s aggressive renewable and low-carbon policies. Wood pellets are co-fired with coal to lower the carbon...
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Talking Past Each Other on Forest Carbon: Differing Questions Asked and...
For many years, folks have been disagreeing about different aspects of forest carbon. First, there’s using different abstractions, which aren’t necessarily clearly defined, as we saw yesterday. Then...
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Support Renewable Energy from Forest Restoration: Guest Post by Brad Worsley
This is an unusual post for TSW.. there’s only a couple of times I’ve posted something about contacting Congress. If you live in a state with a Republican Senator and forest thinning for fuel...
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I. Woody Restoration Residuals- ENGOs in Agreement : Background and Sierra...
I mentioned that I was working on a project to find areas of agreement between environmental groups of various kinds (ENGOs) and others on a variety of topics related to restoration, fuels management...
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The Other Side of the Story: CNN Story on Enviva and “Helicopter Journalism”
Franklin Williams, Northampton County’s Economic Development Director Matthew posted this CNN piece, and my original thoughts were “I bet there are Black people who work at Enviva and who supply wood...
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DePartisanizing Issues: Biomass Utilization and Fuel Treatments
It’s been interesting to watch the mechanics of how an issue becomes partisanized.. or departisanized. Two cheery notes on this wherein what used to be considered that bad R people had are now the...
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‘Fuel for the next fire.’ Why California can’t unload the trees that worsen...
IMHO, this is a really really good story. Unfortunately, it’s for subscribers of the Sacramento Bee only. Fortunately, they have a 99 cent day rate (yay, wish everyone had that). There are also...
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4FRI By The Numbers- January 2022 Accomplishment Report
Why it 4FRI important? At our Region 2 Wildfire Strategy Roundtable, I heard “entrepreneurs need some guarantees for supply.” Which makes sense. But as we have seen, that and “having NEPA done” hasn’t...
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Yale Forest Forum (Western) Fuel Treatment Residues/Bioenergy Webinars of...
Here’s a link to all of Bioenergy series webinars organized by the Yale Forest Forum. They have links to the recordings and the slides. I took the slides above from the presentation by Matt Donegan,...
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How Surprising is That Really?: “To Fight Wildfire, California Gets a...
A new sawmill under construction near Lake Tahoe is offering hope to state officials and some environmental advocates. Its first job will be to process wood from trees killed in the massive Caldor Fire...
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Who Knew? Wood Is Still Main Heating Fuel For Some: A Roundup of...
Many of you have been following the great gas stove controversy (who actually decides which of the many health/environment/climate enhancing ideas to generate campaigns about?). Perhaps wood stoves...
View ArticleFrom Frivolous Litigation to Western Headquarters Via Many Other Ideas:...
Subtitle C actually says “addressing frivolous litigation” and Section 121 is titled “Commonsense Litigation Reform” Here’s the text. We’re going to need help from lawyers out there.. a) IN GENERAL.—A...
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A New Biochar Research Program? Part of Westerman Bill
The Westerman Draft bill wants to support biochar research. It seems that many folks are already studying biochar. An idea would be to round these up, and look for gaps and overlaps before we send any...
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