The Cohesive Strategy says we’ll need to understand risk and be willing to accept some short term risks for the long term gain. In the Sierra Nevada, managers are thinning trees and putting fire on the ground “on their terms” to make the forest more resilient and store more carbon. Take a look. 

A forest with beetle-killed trees as seen from Mt. Fraser, British Columbia.  Photo: The Mighty Quill We’ve all seen it across the West – entire landscapes covered in the red blanket of beetle killed trees.  The mountain pine beetle has destroyed more than 40 million acres of forest in the western United States. (that’s about the size..

The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project in Central Oregon released this video this week – a short narrative with compelling visuals to help the general public understand the need for fire on the landscape. Although the video is specific to the dry pine forests of Central Oregon, there are many other places around the West that..

Dry Creek Fire near Stanley, Idaho 2016. Photo: MagicValley.com The Sawtooth Valley Wildland Fire Collaborative is a four-year old group of stakeholders that include federal, city and county government, private landowners and businesses that are working to find solutions to mitigate the threat of large fires in Idaho. The group recently unveiled plans to thin..