Nearly 100 scientists call on the BC Government to protect Primary Forests. This was covered by The Globe and Mail and Canada Press and NRDC.
If we look hard we can find a patch of forests that had been thinned and burned with prescribed fire, and then burned at less intensity in wildfire. Yet when we look across the vast landscapes that burned in the Bootleg and Almeda fires (Oregon), and Caldor and Dixie fires (California), we see homes burned to the ground, despite the extensive fire breaks and massive amounts of money spent on thinning and fire suppression.
More than 70 groups have launched the Climate Forests Campaign calling on the Biden administration to take executive action to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands to fight climate change and protect biodiversity. Last January President Biden signed Executive Order 10048, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, pledging to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050.
Read Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala’s OpEd on U.S forests and climate change.
We wrote about our closing thoughts on COP26 and forests!
Wild Heritage is a lead signatory on an open letter to the Biden Admin. calling for the removal of provisions in the budget reconciliation and infrastructure bills that will worsen climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its first of three reports from its latest assessment (6th Assessment Report) on the state of the climate change crisis. The findings are very disturbing.
The Tongass temperate rainforest in southeast Alaska has been called “North America’s lungs” as towering spruce and hemlock absorb and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
The USDA is developing a climate strategy in response to President Biden’s Executive Order and requested stakeholder input.
Read the letter Wild Heritage and partners sent to the Biden Administration outlining our views on a forest strategy for achieving the U.S. 30×30 objective
Earth Day turned 51 on April 22. Our Chief Scientist, Dr. Dominick DellaSala, points out the accomplishments and challenges ahead for a planet in peril.
Hear a recorded press conference on the importance of the Tongass rainforests, older forests, and large trees nationwide for climate mitigation.