The USDA is developing a climate strategy in response to President Biden’s Executive Order and requested stakeholder input.
Western towns need to be designed for fire safety in a changing climate including reducing ex-urban sprawl into areas likely to burn, hardening existing structures, and building new ones with fire safety in mind. Wild Heritage’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Dominick DellaSala, discussed the Talent, OR rebuild underway following the destructive Almeda fire that was climate driven.
Listen to the Jefferson Public Radio interview with Dr. DellaSala
The Almeda fire was driven by climate change and more of these urban disasters are happening across the West. The September 8 Almeda fire started from suspect arson in Ashland, OR spreading within hours to adjacent towns of Talent and Phoenix, OR, where it destroyed 3,000 homes. It was climate driven.
Carbon and IPCC scientists ask President-elect Joe Biden to extend his pledge of the Amazon to forests at home in this Seattle Times Op ed.
The Tongass rainforest in southeast Alaska is one of the nation’s last climate sanctuaries and needs to be protected from logging.
As trees grow and age over time they store massive amounts of carbon and help to keep Earth’s temperature from drastically overheating.
Chief Scientist Dr. Dominick DellaSala has worked on the Tongass for decades and is working with hundreds of scientists and elected officials to push back on this latest Trump conservation rollback.Chief Scientist Dr. Dominick DellaSala has worked on the Tongass for decades and is working with hundreds of scientists and elected officials to push back on this latest Trump conservation rollback.
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The recent fires in Oregon and California provide a teachable moment to rebuild communities using less carbon intensive and fire-safe materials that may reduce logging pressures to forests.
Our chief scientist, Dr. Dominick DellaSala, spearheaded an effort involving 115 scientists that asked the US Forest Service to scrap plans to log large trees in national forests of eastern Oregon and Washington.
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