by FSEEE | Sep 11, 2026 | Roadless Rule
Comment Now to Protect the Crown Jewels of our National Forests. 9/11/26 UPDATE: The comment period has just been extended from September 21 to October 6, 2026! The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a proposed rule Aug. 18 to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area...
by FSEEE | Sep 11, 2026 | Action Alert
The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety, stripping protection from 44.7 million acres of the wildest national forest land in the United States. The USDA published the proposed rescission rule Aug....
by FSEEE | Sep 11, 2026 | Roadless Rule
The USDA is accepting public comments about rescinding the Roadless Rule until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, October 6, 2026. Click here to read the proposed rule change and to comment. The original comment period ending September 21 was extended by 15 days. As a...
by FSEEE | Sep 2, 2026 | In the News
U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, a Democrat representing New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, recently issued a press release announcing that she and other members of Congress are seeking an investigation into the prevalence and impacts of toxic heavy...
by FSEEE | Aug 31, 2026 | Dispatch, Fire Truth
Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz told a House subcommittee in July that the agency’s firefighting workforce is “stronger than at any point in recent years” and “fully staffed and equipped to respond aggressively to every unplanned...
by FSEEE | Aug 25, 2026 | Briefly, Fire Truth, In the News
The human-caused Hawk Fire in Nevada made headlines after it grew to 15,000 acres from Saturday, Aug. 22, to Sunday, Aug. 23. as winds pushed the flames into parts of northwest Reno. Like a majority of fast-growing fires, the Hawk Fire burned mainly in brush and grass...
by FSEEE | Aug 24, 2026 | Briefly
Typically, when conservationists talk about old-growth forests, they focus on protecting forests that have already reached that stage. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a new conservation easement takes a different approach by protecting a forest so it can naturally...
by FSEEE | Aug 18, 2026 | In the News
A study published June 11 in Science by Stanford researchers Iván Higuera-Mendieta and Marshall Burke and covered last week by The Washington Post confirms what fire ecologists and Indigenous communities have advocated for generations: low-severity, controlled burning...
by FSEEE | Aug 16, 2026 | Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
As Westerners cope with the smoke and flames of another record-setting fire season, the media serves up dramatic videos of various active wildfires. Much of this footage focuses on dramatic images of crown fires burning through forest canopies, suggesting these fires...
by FSEEE | Aug 7, 2026 | FS Reorganization
Kirsten Stade, reporting for Steady State Herald, recently spoke with FSEEE Executive Director Kevin Hood about the reorganization taking place within the U.S. Forest Service. The interview was part of a larger piece examining the Trump Administration’s...
