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.
The Biden administration is thankfully re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement and will announce its climate commitments at the end of this month. Wild Heritage is providing preliminary analyses of the carbon and climate importance of the Tongass and older forests and large trees nationwide.
The Biden administration is thankfully preparing for the climate meetings in Glasgow and will soon announce it’s climate commitments. 111 scientists, led by Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Wild Heritage, are asking the president to set aside the nation’s most carbon and bio-rich older forests beginning with the Tongass in Alaska.
Wild Heritage’s Chief Scientist, and former spotted owl recovery team member, comments on what it will take to save the owl and mature forests in the Pacific Northwest in The misguided spotted owl shell game.