Lawfare on Logging & Forest Management
"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."
Lawfare Threatens Clean, Healthful Environment
"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."
Lost Potential: The Middleman Project And The Consequences Of Our Permitting Processes
"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."
Derailing Collaborative Conservation: The Pintler Face Project
"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."
On Earth Day, Thank A Logger
"More active forest management is great news for those who love Montana’s “clean and healthful” environment and want to improve the global climate."
Fixing Forest Litigation
"Reasonable reforms like these are needed to make litigation and injunctions less disruptive and fix America’s forests."
The Role of Forest Restoration
"With proactive efforts to restore our forests, we can begin to tackle the wildfire crisis."
Solving the Wildfire Crisis Through Good Business
"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."
Protecting The Right To A Clean & Healthful Environment With Better Forest Management
"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."
Catastrophic Wildfires Threaten Clean And Healthy Environment
"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."
Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill
"Fixing our forests will ultimately require cutting through the environmental red tape that prevents many forest-restoration projects from getting off the ground or stalls them until they go up in flames."
Time’s Up On The Cottonwood Fix
"The expiration of the temporary fix is a serious setback to forest restoration in Montana and around the West."
Montana’s Path To Burning Back Better
"Fixing America’s Forests will require a variety of tools, but Montana has a substantial opportunity to expand the use of prescribed fire on private lands."
Montana Can Control Its Own Wildfire Destiny
"With proactive measures like these to expand Montana’s forest restoration and wildfire response capabilities, we can take our wildfire destiny back into our own hands."
Forest Management Requires ‘Good’ Fire
"Prescribed burns, especially done in conjunction with mechanical treatments, proved their value as a proactive tool in controlling wildfires in Montana this summer."