The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s bedrock environmental law. The goal of CEQA is simple: to ensure that the...

The High Cost of Lumber, Explained If you have been to the lumberyard recently, you likely came away with sticker shock. Lumber prices...

Our nation’s old growth forests are an incredibly important climate solution. Our temperate rainforests rival tropical rainforests in...

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest has proposed extensive post-fire logging under the guise of restoration within the August Complex...

The Northern Spotted Owl (“NSO”) is an iconic species of the forest defense movement. And because of decades of activism and laws like...

Last month, EPIC asked our members to tell CAL FIRE not to proceed with the Mitchell Creek Timber Harvest Plan (THP) or any THPs in the...

Aerial view of Green Diamond clearcut. Our planet is getting hotter. That is clear to the over 650,000 people displaced across the West...

Fires are Dynamic and Many Things Influence Fire Behavior There have been plenty of frustrating headlines that attribute one thing for...

Post-fire logged area Written by Clary Greacen Montagne Get ready, because a massive timber-industry push will begin shortly to “recover”...

“It is time that the Forest Service work with communities and stakeholders to restore forests, protect homes and communities and...

The National Forest Management Act requires that every national forest develop and maintain a land management plan, known as forest...

Red Salmon Complex Fire, July 27. Photo courtesy of Inciweb. The USFS has delegated authority to firefighters to bulldoze ridgetops in...

In 2018, the Ranch Fire burnt a significant portion of the Mendocino National Forest. In response, the Mendocino National Forest...

In late May, EPIC submitted an opening brief in the case to overturn a permit that threatens California’s last remaining Humboldt...

On February 27, 2020, Green Diamond submitted the “Gibson Ridge” Timber Harvest Plan (THP) # 1-20-000-24-HUM to clearcut over 200 acres...

View from Crawford project area looking over the Klamath River watershed into Marble Mountain Wilderness. Last Friday, EPIC and allies...

Spotted Owl. Photo by US Forest Service. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has sided with the timber industry, placing millions of acres...

Scotch Broom in bloom in Oregon. Photo by Bonnie Moreland. The Mendocino National Forest is proposing to spray herbicides across 54 acres...

This photo from the Klamath National Forest courtesy of KS Wild. Trucks of logs are being sold for only a measly $2.50 Taxpayers lose...

Mendocino National Forest bulldozer lines are linear clearcuts harmful to wildlife and ecosystems but are ineffective at stopping the...