This Giving Tuesday, November 29th, after spending quality time gorging comfort foods with family and friends and waddling around like penguins from store to store, don’t forget to set aside some of your stash for the forests, rivers, and wildlife that sustain us with the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the water we drink. Founded as a response to the commercialization and consumerism of the holiday season, Giving Tuesday, the international day of charitable giving, is i

Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) is the largest state forest in California at nearly 50,000 acres. It is located in the unceded ancestral Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki territory of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians. Since its inception in 1947, the State has primarily managed this forest to cut it for profit, not preserve it. The Tribe, along with a statewide coalition of environmental justice advocates have joined together to protect and preserve the trees and a

Region 5 (R5) of the U.S. Forest Service has recently released two-of-three Environmental Analyses along with Draft Decision Notices for the R5 Post-Disturbance Hazardous Tree Project, which covers nine national forests. While removing hazard trees after wildfire sounds innocuous enough, the project is being proposed on over 6,000 miles of roads and trails. That’s enough distance to go from Los Angeles to New York City and back! The project is so large, it has been split into