George Wuerthner

  • Large blazes

    Logging proponents fail to acknowledge that climate is the ultimate arbitrator of wildfires. That is why the coastal forests of Oregon and...

  • Wildfires

    One continuously hears from the timber industry and its allies that the present occurrence of large wildfires is primarily the result of 100 years...

  • Collective ignorance

    A researcher in California is collecting seeds of sugar pine that appear to have resistant to bark beetles. Her goal is to capture and propagate...

  • In praise of dead trees

    Dead. Most of us have negative associations with the word. After all how did Death Valley get its name? Not because it was a favorite vacation spot...

  • A killing machine

    Wildlife Services is a secretive taxpayer-supported federal agency whose prime purpose is to kill wildlife. Wildlife Services uses a host of cruel...

  • Restoring forests

    “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope?” wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers.Jeffers encapsulated the idea...

  • The public value of forests

    Recently in an interview about the 2018 Farm Bill, US Sen Steve Daines advocated more ‘active’ management of our national forests. ‘Active’...

  • Off limits to logging

    Logging, conducted ostensibly to ‘thin the forest’, ‘reduce fuels’ or for so-called ‘restoration’, causes a net loss of carbon from...

  • Saving forests

    There is a huge difference between the Industrial Forestry worldview and an ecological perspective. Many people assume that foresters understand...

  • Why California is burning

    The recent fires in California offer lessons that every westerner should pay attention to. First forest reduction projects will not preclude large...

  • Climate deniers

    Most environmental/  conservation  groups are Climate  Change deniers.  Specifically, I am talking  about the...