by Web Editor | Apr 2, 2014 | News, News/PR
Numerous billion-dollar proposals to create more water storage in California are competing for attention and funding during this third year of drought. But there may be a less-expensive way to increase water flows into the Central Valley: Start thinning out the...
by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A renowned conservation biologist who has done research for the Forest Service for more than a decade is suing the agency to try to block logging in the Sierra Nevada mountains above Lake Tahoe. He says it’s being done illegally under the guise of reducing...
by Web Editor | Oct 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you burn it, they will come. That movie-based logic is how federal dollars get allocated for forests, say foresters, scientists, environmentalists and others familiar with how fire risk gets handled in the Sierra Nevada range. The Rim Fire that started Aug. 17 and...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
A new management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument places greater limits on timber cutting in and near groves of the world’s largest trees, but would still allow logging in nearly a quarter of the monument. The plan, released Tuesday by the U.S....