February 22, 2022: For the first time in more than two decades, Big Green has decided to take on “big timber” issues on the National Forests, announcing a campaign designed to pressure the Biden Administration to “protect mature trees and forests on Federal lands,” claiming doing so is “critical” to combatting climate change. The…
Press Statement: Forest Service 10-Year Strategy on Wildfires: “The time is now for the Forest Service to start making a difference on the ground.” The following statement is from Federal Forest Resource Coalition President Tom Schultz: January 18, 2022: “We applaud USDA for issuing a new strategy to combat the wildfire crisis that has…
Testimony Submitted for the Record to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry on behalf of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition The 2020 Fire Season Should be the Watershed Moment for Federal Forest Management September 24, 2020 The wildfires that came in the late summer of the 2020 Fire Season have created unprecedented challenges for our public and…
Chuck Roady Vice President & General Manager – F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Company, of Columbia Falls, Montana and President – Federal Forest Resource Coalition issued the following statement at the White House, at an event featuring remarks by President Donald J. Trump on the Administration’s conservation accomplishments. “President Trump has placed more focus and…
FFRC Executive Director Bill Imbergamo testified in front of the House Interior Subcommittee yesterday, in support of an active timber sale program. You can watch the testimony at this link. His testimony is below. Testimony of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: Re: Fiscal Year 2020…
In a new report entitled “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States”, an independent economic research firm called the Rhodium Group analyzed the negative consequences of climate change on the American economy. The report synthesizes the probability and magnitude of the impacts of climate change on eight regions across the…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced they have extended the listing deadline for the Northern Long-Eared Bat (NLEB) for six months and re-opened the comment period for 60 days. The FWS said they did so intending to provide “additional time to resolve questions received during the public comment period regarding the species’ population and…
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula to stop the Rendezvous Trails timber sale on the Gallatin National Forest. The sale calls for thinning lodgepole pine along ski trails on the forest. The litigants allege that the Forest Service acted too quickly in…
A forest treatment project in the Helena National Forest is finally beginning after being postponed by nearly a decade of litigation. The project includes mostly thinning on 2,900 acres as part of a broader, 15,600-acre project intended to reduce fire danger and increase forest health. The Cabin Gulch Vegetation Treatment Project aimed to increase forest…
A study by the Pacific Northwest Research Station found that both intensive and moderate thinning worked to reduce fire intensity and protect communities in the Wallow Fire, the largest wildfire in Arizona history that scorched over 539,000 acres in 2011. Conservative and intensive fuel treatments worked to allow for the protection of homes according to…