"Something needs to change. To prevent catastrophic and costly fires in the future, leaders in DC should take steps now to remove regulatory burdens and help critical forest management projects move forward."
"Our chronically ambiguous federal and state environmental permitting laws have enabled fringe anti-forest management groups to weaponize the courts and shut down critical projects, even projects that are good for our forests and our environment."
"The focus must be on expediting good projects to remove excess fuels in our forests, not limiting the use of good tools."
"The Middleman Project is a textbook example of how our federal and state environmental permitting processes are broken and fuel litigation that harms our most critical projects, even those that will ultimately be good for our environment."
"Yet despite successfully achieving this collaboration, The Pintler Face Project serves as a poignant illustration of how the real problem holding vital forest management projects is actually our permitting process."
"More active forest management is great news for those who love Montana’s “clean and healthful” environment and want to improve the global climate."
"Reasonable reforms like these are needed to make litigation and injunctions less disruptive and fix America’s forests."
A small collection of litigants, however, continues to derail forest management efforts with lawsuits—jeopardizing the environment they claim to be protecting.
"With proactive efforts to restore our forests, we can begin to tackle the wildfire crisis."
"While the federal and state government oversee many wildfire prevention and suppression efforts, private businesses are also emerging as much-needed leaders in the space."
"Leaders must dramatically increase the pace and scale of active forest management or our right to a clean and healthy environment will continue to be put at risk."
"It’s time for our leaders to prioritize active forest management to mitigate the growing threat of catastrophic fires and secure Montanans’ fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment."