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Forest Protection Forums

Join the Stop Clearcutting CA Sierra Club Chapter monthly at 4PM PT for educational forums about forest conservation efforts.

NEXT FORUM: 

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PAST FORUMS:

• Rita Vaughn Frost, Jane Jacoby, Dr. Shaye Wolf| Stop GSNR | December 16, 2024 (see Stop GSNR slides)
• George Wuerthner | Why Forest Thinning Proposals are Misguided | November 25, 2024 (see George Wuerthner's slides)
• Chad Hanson | Mixed-Intensity Forests: Nature's Phoenix | October 21, 2024 (see Dr. Hanson's slides)
• Dr. Shaye Wolf | Emerging biomass threats: BECCS, hydrogen, and wood pellet expansion in California | Sept. 16, 2024 (click here to view slides)
• Chuck Willer | Industrial Forestry and the Water You Drink | July 15, 2024
• John Perlin | A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization | June 17, 2024 
• J.P. O'Brien | Jackson Demonstration State Forest: History and management within the broader context of the redwood region and climate change impacts to forest resources | May 20, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
• Rita Vaughan Frost | California forests aren’t fuel: Golden State Natural Resources’ (GSNR) Biomass Boondoggle | April 15, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
• Greg King | History lives on: The changeless face of industrial redwood logging in California | March 18, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
• Ethan Arutunian | How we completely stopped a Logging Plan in California, and you can too | Feb. 26, 2024 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Chad Hanson | Why Recent Wildfires are the Salvation of Giant Sequoia Groves | Jan. 22, 2024 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Gary Hughes, Americas Program Coordinator, Biofuelwatch | Global Bioenergy Sector Targets California’s Forests With Massive Wood Export Pellet Scheme | December 11, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Colin Baptie and Maeve Katherine Bergman from the Guerneville Forest Coalition | The Battle to Protect The Russian River Redwoods: Lessons Learned from a Successful Campaign | November 20, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• John Talberth | The Climate Impacts of Industrial Forest Practices | October 16, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Maya Khosla | Where Are All of the Forests Going? | September 25, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Linda Sheehan | The Rights of Nature and Forest Protection | August 21, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
• Katherine Egland | Debunking Forest-Fueled Climate Myths | July 31, 2023
• Joan Maloof | The Old Growth Forest Network | June 12, 2023
• Dominick DellaSala | Have Western Fire Suppression and Megafire Active Management Approaches Become a Contemporary Sisyphus? | May 15, 2023
• Ernie Niemi | The Economics of Logging in 2023 – Insights from the Pacific Northwest | April 17, 2023
• Chad Hanson | Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate | March 20, 2023
• Bryant Baker | Why Recent Claims About Fire- and Drought-Related Tree Mortality and Forest "Loss" Are Overstated | Feb. 27, 2023

Fact Sheets

• Frequently Asked Questions About Clearcutting
• It’s Time to Ban Clearcutting in California!
• Healthy Forests Combat Climate Change
• Plantations Increase Fire Risk
• Clearcut Forests Threaten Our Water
• Conventional Biomass Incineration Is Not the Answer

Opinion Pieces

• Home Hardening Not Fuel Reduction – The Wildlife News
• Commentary: Don't believe everything about forest thinning
• Industry's Not-So-Golden Plan for California's Forests
• White House must redirect the forest service to preserve old forests
• Biden Shouldn't Give Wood Pellet Biomass Clean-Energy Tax Credits - Bloomberg
• Viewpoint: Forest thinning intensifies global warming (missoulacurrent.com), Missoula Current
• Is Reducing Wildfire Fuels Common Sense? – The Wildlife News
• Earth Month Reflection, 2024
• Viewpoint: Work on the Community, Not the Forest
• We Thought We Were Saving the Planet, but We Were Planting a Time Bomb
• Opinion: We've Got it All Wrong About Sequoias and Wildfire
• Guest Column: Celebrate Earth day with Protections for Old Forests
• White House Must Take Older Trees off Federal Forest Cut List
• High Country News Engages in Climate Change Denialism and Greenwashing
• Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it, Greta Thunberg and others, 9/5/22
• It Costs Nothing to Leave Our Trees as They Are, 8/25/22
• Why mature and old forests are so important for climate mitigation and adaptation, 8/23/22
• Biden's Infrastructure Bill Promotes Subsidized Logging
• Open Letter to Decision Makers Concerning Wildfires in the West, Geos Institute, 2018 - 217 scientists sign letter opposing logging as a response to wildfires
• Want to Fight Climate Change? Stop Clearcutting Our Carbon Sinks, 2017
• The Nature Gap, Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the Destruction and Protection of Nature in America, 2020
• Commentary: Don’t be fooled by the great biomass incineration scam | CalMatters
• The Active Forest Management Scam
• Fueling the Next Rim Fire
• Rethinking Forest Fires
• Fire-Proofing Forests is Not Possible
• It’s Time to Stop Clearcutting our National Forests
• Logging Makes Forests and Homes More Vulnerable to Wildfires
• Infrastructure Spending Should Not Facilitate Sawing Down Our National Forests
• Fire Suppression Myths

Some of the Science

• A Looming Health Crisis Shadows the South’s Wood Pellet Boom | School of Public Health | Brown University
• Retrofitting a Home for Wildfire Resistance
• Unintended consequences of fire suppression
• Retention forestry amplifies microclimate buffering in boreal forests
• Greater biodiversity shields forests from climate extremes, say scientists
• Wildland-urban Fire Disasters aren't Actually a Wildfire Problem
• Study: Burning Wood Pellets for Energy Endangers Local Communities' Health
• Integrated Global Assessment of the Natural Forest Carbon Potential
• The Carbon Costs of Global Wood Harvests
• The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires | PDF Report
• Climate-Smart Forestry: Promise and Risks for Forests, Society, and Climate
• Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus? | Elsevier Enhanced Reader
• Huge forest fires don’t cause living trees to release much carbon, OSU research shows, 3/14/2022
• Dissolved Matter in Stream Ecosystems, L.A. Kaplan & R.M. Cory, Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, 2016, https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/clearcutting
• Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, Cook-Patton, et al, Nature, Sep;585(7826):545-550, 2020
• Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the Western United States, Bradley et al, Ecosphere, 2016  

In The News

• Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction – World Energy Data
• It’s The Wind Stupid – The Wildlife News
• The U.K. “Clean” Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S (theintercept.com)
• US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say | Trees and forests | The Guardian
• Selective logging proponents state their forestry case - Prince George Citizen
• Opinion: Politicians aren't connecting climate change with wildfires | Edmonton Journal
• The “Clean Energy” Industry Ravaging Natural Forests to Feed Power Generators - In These Times
• Burning Wood Is Not ‘Renewable Energy,’ So Why Do Policymakers Pretend It Is? - The Good Men Project
• JMP Press Release: Biden Old-Growth Amendment is Logging Plan in Disguise
• The British Are Coming! The Invasion of California’s Forests? - Rachel Carson Council
• Burning Trees: As the Biomass Industry Grows, Its Carbon Emissions Go Uncounted
• UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants
• Viewpoint: Consequences of unrestrained logging, thinning
• Forest thinning isn't the answer to bushfires
• Forests Know how to Protect Themselves from Fire
• Old Forests are Critically Important for Slowing Climate Change and Merit Immediate Protection from Logging
• How Management Affects Carbon Stored in Forest Soils
• Another Timber War Looms
• Oregon's Drinking Water is at Risk from Clearcutting
• Timber Harvests to Meet Global Wood Demand Will Bring Soaring Emissions: Study
• New Trees are No Substitute for Old Trees
• A Good Week for Forests, a Bad Week for Bioenergy
• Is the Forest Service "Falsifying the Scientific Record" on Wildfires? With Chad Hanson, PhD
• Combining Science with Poetry to Protect Post-Fire Forests: the Activism of Maya Khosla
• Landmark Study Finds Pattern of "Falsification of the Scientific Record" in Government-Funded Wildfire Studies
• Mature Federal Forests Play an Outsized Role in the Nation's Climate Strategy
• California’s giant sequoias are burning up. Will logging save them?, 8/16/22
• Sacramento Bee Misleads Readers on Logging in Yosemite
• Yosemite National Park Logging Project
• Is clear-cutting U.S. forests good for wildlife?
• Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires
• Old growth forests are most important 
• Silent Forests
• Prominent progressive Democrat and scientists support stopping clearcutting
• New reason to conserve redwoods — they’re best at storing polluting carbon         
• The dirty little secret behind 'clean energy' wood pellets 
• How a California state forest has become a battleground for logging redwoods on public land

Timber Harvest Plans (THPs)

• How Timber Harvest Plans Work (EPIC)
• THP Workshop (EPIC)
• Fight Back!  A Forest Defender’s Handbook
• Forest Practices Act, establishes oversight for logging on private and state-owned forest lands in California 
• 2021 Forest Practice Rules, based on the Forest Practices Act and all subsequent relevant legislation and created by Board of Forestry
• CalFire’s CalTrees, contains timber harvest plans, comments and other related documents. If you create an account, you can request alerts
• THP Blog, private site, based on CalTrees data, very accessible, not regularly updated since the coronavirus pandemic

Videos

• Wood pellets boom in the US raises health and environmental concerns
• Frontline Voices on the Impacts of Tree Burning in UK Power Stations and How to Take Action
• Rejuvenation by Maya Khosla
• Wildfire Myth Busting – Fuel Breaks
• Beyond Burning | Narrated by Emma Thompson
• Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other | TED Talk
• How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest | Decoder - YouTube
• Carole King: 'The forest service is not serving the forest — It's serving the timber industry'
• Clearcutting in California
• Forests & Climate introductory video
• Clearcutting Kills Forests
• Clearcutting Nation
• Our Planet
• Timber Harvest Plan: Session 1
• Timber Harvest Plan: Session 2

Books

• The Ghost Forest, Greg King, Public Affairs, 2023
• The Wild Trees, Richard Preston, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
• Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests, Joan Maloof, Timber Press, 2016, New Edition 2023
• Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations and Climate Change, Daniel Mathews, Counterpoint Press, 2020
• Sterile Forest: The Case Against Clearcutting, Ned Fritz, Eakin Press, 1983
• The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear, Doug Bevington, Island Press, 2009
• Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, Edited by Jeremy B. Jones and Emily H. Stanley, Elsevier Books, 2016
• The Overstory, Richard Powers, W.W. Norton, 2018
• The Forests of California, A Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, 2020
• Smokescreen:  Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, Chad Hanson, Kentucky Press, 2021

Webinars

• Burning Up the Biosphere - Threat Map Webinar - Zoom
• John Muir Project & FCC presents: Biomass: Bad for Communities, Climate & Forests Webinar
• Costs of Industrial Forest Practices Webinar Recording
• Understanding the Science, Ep. 2: Are Current Fire Management Practices the Contemporary Sisyphus?
• The Perfect Storm Webinar

Letters to the Editor (LTEs)

• How to Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) | Sierra Club
• LTE Training Slide Show
• LTE Handout
• Talking Points
• Newspaper Tracker
• Recent Published LTES by Our Writing Team
• Join Our Team! Contact forests@lomaprieta.sierraclub.org

Some of our allies

• Tahoe Forests Matter
• Biofuelwatch
• Climate Forests
• The John Muir Project
• California Chaparral Institute
• Friends of Gualala River
• Forests Forever
• We Advocate Through Environmental Review (WATER)
• Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc
• Battle Creek Alliance
• Forests Unlimited 
• Environment Now
• Los Padres ForestWatch

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