Become a volunteer and help us collect data on wildlife this fall. As fall arrives, animals will be on the move across the country. Whether it is an annual migration, the “rut” or reproduction season, or animals fattening up for the winter, animals are moving through our landscapes. Those same landscapes are now criss-crossed with roads and human infrastructure, which has broken up habitat, making it harder for animals to find resources and get to where they need to go. It is

The Scott and Shasta Rivers are critical salmon watersheds, including habitat for threatened coho salmon. But both rivers have suffered from serious water-quality problems for decades. The Scott River is listed as impaired by excessive temperatures, sediment, and biostimulatory conditions, while the Shasta River is impaired by excessive temperatures and low dissolved oxygen. Hot water, sediment, and low oxygen can make it difficult for salmon to survive, particularly during t

The Trump Administration is proposing sweeping revisions to another important protection for federal forests: the Travel Management Rule. The repeal of the Travel Management Rule has garnered less attention than other recent regulatory gutting—like Trump’s recent Endangered Species Act rollbacks or the Roadless Rule rescission—but this action would reverse decades of work to help address the Forest Service’s failing road network.

At the beginning of September, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a report titled Limiting Overshoot: Navigating Exceedance of 1.5°C and Pathways Towards Return. In it, UNEP calls on the world to face the likelihood that we will exceed the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

On Friday, Governor Newsom vetoed AB 2494 (Rogers), our bill to modernize the management of state-owned “demonstration forests.” Under existing law, these public lands are to be managed for “maximum sustained production” of timber products, while only “giving consideration” to other management values, like recreation, biodiversity, research, and wildfire resilience.

A federal judge has struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log the forested ridges above Lake Siskiyou, one of the region's most popular recreation destinations near the city of Mt. Shasta. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Dena Coggins of the Eastern District of California vacated a “Biological Opinion” issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, finding the deficiencies in the document to be sufficiently meaningful that the document needed to be thrown out.

Tannery Gulch Campground could look very different by fall. Last week, EPIC joined Forest Service staff; members of the Trinity County Collaborative; Trinity RCD; and about a dozen concerned campers, including a camp host with her two children, who's worked there for 15 years; and campers who've been coming for more than 50 years and have spent every summer of their lives here with their whole family. At one point, standing near one of the marked trees, the camp host told the