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The latest original material from Tommy and related authors on current issues and the environment, including cited news content.

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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Judge Rules Kern River Must Be Allowed to Flow Through Bakersfield

November 3, 2023

This article by Ian James originally appeared in the Nov. 1, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times. It is shared here because of the story’s interest to our environmental […]

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Hetch Hetchy and America’s First Modern Conservation Fight

March 11, 2023

This episode of Treehuggers International originally aired on April 29, 2012, on KBZT FM 94/9. Thanks to Mike Marshall for his help making this program possible, with special thanks to Paul […]

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Fracking and Logging on Federal Public Lands on the Central Coast

September 2, 2020

When Donald Trump won the presidency on an electoral college misfire after losing the popular vote in 2016, his administration rolled into office with a breathtaking lack of self-consciousness, and […]

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