Media
Wild Heritage In the News
January 2023 - Current
US inventory: old forests cover area larger than California
The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government lands.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-plans-new-forest-protections-issues-growth-inventory-98717681
Experts on old-growth forests review the federal inventory of older forests
Dr. Dominick DellaSalla, chief scientist at Wild Heritage, and Dr. Richard Birdsey at Woodwell Climate Research Center comprehensively review what they find and do not find in the inventory.
Kentucky Residents Angered by U.S. Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees
Biden pledged to protect old-growth trees, but proposed clear-cutting in national forests collides with climate policy.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05032023/kentucky-old-trees-young-forest-carbon-storage/
Biden admin may boost carbon storage in national forests – https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/01/05/biden-admin-may-boost-carbon-storage-in-national-forests-00076546
January 2022 - December 2022
Scientists call for stepped up protections of primary forests on the Tongass for their climate and biodiversity values –https://grist.org/project/accountability/tongass-national-forest-roadless-rule-loophole/
Nearly 100 scientists call on the BC government to protect primary forests –
Covered by The Globe and Mail and Canada Press and NRDC
READ LETTER
Dr. DellaSala’s Testimony on Wildfires and Climate Change –
https://wild-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DellaSalaHouseEnvironmenttestimonyv2-3-11-22.pdf/
Protecting the Tongass rainforest in Alaska –
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/tongass-national-forest-old-growth-tree-climate/
Logging controversy over wildfires in eastern Oregon –
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/climate/fire-forest-management-bootleg-oregon.html
October 2021 - December 2021
Speaking truth to power –
https://kboo.fm/media/105223-speaking-truth-power
Climate Summit misses the mark on US forests –
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-deforestation-old-growth-forests-cop26_n_61841ea9e4b06de3eb726e8a
COP26 not doing enough on forests –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/as-fossil-fuel-use-surges-will-cop26-protect-forests-to-slow-climate-change/
US forests hold climate keys –
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/581612-us-forests-hold-climate-keys
COP26 Glascow Declaration –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/cop26-glasgow-declaration-salvation-or-threat-to-earths-forests/
End to logging of older US forests –
https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2021-11-01/tue-8-am-rogue-valley-scientist-proposes-an-end-to-logging-of-older-u-s-forests
July 2021 - September 2021
Increased logging endangers BC rainforests –
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/interior-wet-belt-interior-temperate-rainforest-1.5800915
Why old growth is an ally in fighting climate change –
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/why-old-growth-forests-are-an-ally-in-fighting-climate-change-1.6088794
BC’s rate inland rainforest nearing imminent collapse –
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-old-growth-inland-rainforest-study-2021/
Biden to restore roadless protections on Tongass –
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/climate/tongass-roadless-rule-alaska.html
Pacific Northwest old growth hold climate keys –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/old-growth-forests-of-pacific-northwest-could-be-key-to-climate-action/
Rebuilding burned towns better –
https://www.mailtribune.com/guest-opinion/2021/09/05/what-ive-learned-as-a-talent-resident-a-year-after-almeda/
Almeda fire – one year later –
https://www.sopbs.org/programs/locally-produced/local-focus/local-focus-almeda-fire/
April 2021 - June 2021
Tongass rainforest lungs of North America –
https://www.ktoo.org/2021/04/01/tongass-holds-more-than-40-of-all-carbon-stored-by-national-forests/
Tongass rainforest is globally unique –
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/04/26/indigenous-peoples-have-always-known-the-tongass-is-our-lifeblood-new-research-confirms-it/
BC forests are white rhino of old growth –
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/british-columbia-poised-to-lose-white-rhino-of-old-growth-forests/
January 2021 - March 2021
Year of fires –
https://kboo.fm/media/100014-year-fires
Destruction of world’s forests increased in 2020 –
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/31/destruction-of-worlds-forests-increased-sharply-in-2020-loss-tree-cover-tropical