Enjoy and Protect Your National Forests
Spring and Summer are near, and it is time to plan a visit to your favorite national forest. We encourage the public and members of the John Muir Project to visit some of the places that we are working to protect in the Sierra Nevada and other areas in California. As Americans, these places belong to you. By simply visiting and enjoying your national forests, you can help protect them. But you can do even more by taking action to assist us in their protection. TAKE ACTION
JMP in the News
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Ecologists agree that there is no way to win the War Against Wildfire. So why is the Forest Service spending more than ever on fire suppression?
by Jason Marks (Earth Island Journal, Winter 2009)
Fire and ancient forests belong together
by Matthew Koehler (High Country News, Jan. 15, 2009)
Another view: Don't assume that fire is bad for forests
by Chad Hanson, PhD. (Sacramento Bee, Dec. 15, 2008)
Give Thanks for Burned Forests
by Matthew Koehler (Counterpunch, Nov. 27, 2008) Wildfire's role in the life of a forest
by Chad Hanson, PhD. (San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2008) The Ecology of Severely Burned Forests
by Richard Hutto (Counterpunch, July 10, 2008)
Logging Industry Misleads on Forest Fires and Climate Change by Chad Hanson, PhD. (Counterpunch,
July 9, 2008)
New Logging Proposed in the Giant Sequoia National Monument
The Forest Service continues to cling to practices of the past and has proposed three timber sales in the Giant Sequoia National Monument under the guise of routine road maintenance, suggesting that it must log "hazard" trees along over 100 miles of road because they may one day fall. The three sales, in combination, would log almost 2 million board feet of timber, which rivals the size of logging prior to the monument proclamation. These include the Hume Lake Roadside Hazard Project, the North Roadside Hazard Project, and the Blackrock Roadside Hazard Project.
Take Action - Write to Tina Terrell,
Sequoia National Forest Supervisor <tterrell@fs.fed.us>
Ask her to issue direction to Giant Sequoia National Monument managers to provide safety from hazard trees without timber sales and without removing trees from the monument as the monument proclamation requires. User safety can be achieved by cutting and leaving imminent hazard treesin the monument.
JMP Mounts Legal Challenge Against Lassen NF's Misuse of Science and Data
In order to justify logging in the Champs Project, the Forest Service has overstated forest stand density, erroneously relied upon an unanalyzed Regional Directive, and has selectively interpreted and incorporated data, creating a fictitious need for logging medium and large trees to reduce stand densities, and thus prevent trees from dying, when in fact, the areas to be logged are not overly dense and are already deficient in large dead trees (snags) which are necessary for the survival of numerous imperiled wildlife species. Click here to continue reading ...
John Muir Project Halts Massive Logging Project on the Plumas NF
On October 31, 2008, JMP forced the Plumas NF to conceed that it did not need to log 15 million board feet of trees along 96 miles of road under the guise of "routine" road maintenance. Instead, the Plumas NF entered into a court-ordered agreement with JMP that it would fell and leave no more than 50 trees that may imminently fall. The Forest Service has withdrawn the project, which was located within the Moonlight Fire perimeter in northeast Plumas County.
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