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New California Bill Targets Federal Push to Sell Off Public Lands

January 28, 2026

This article originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Jan. 28, 2026. By Chaewon Chung, Sacramento Bee On Jan. 27th, California lawmakers held a news conference introducing a bipartisan environmental […]

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Study Finds Key Exception to Pretext That Logging Reduces Wildfire Risk

August 21, 2025

This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 20, 2025. By Kurtis Alexander The Trump administration recently identified a goal of increasing timber production on federal forests […]

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U.S. Forest Service Chiefs: Trump’s Approach Has Us Worried for the Future of Public Lands

April 21, 2025

This opinion piece originally appeared in the April 13, 2025, edition of the Denver Post. By Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth, Gail Kimbell, Tom Tidwell, Vicki Christiansen, and Randy Moore Collectively, […]

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Logging Threatens Area Between Wallowa Range and Hells Canyon

April 5, 2023

Submit Your Remarks to the Forest Service Here One of the highlights of my conservation career occurred during the summer of 2013, when I recorded the plaintive howl of OR-4 […]

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