Forest Management

14 09, 2020

Grimes: President Trump in Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing With Gov. Gavin Newsom

2020-09-15T12:55:12-04:00September 14th, 2020|California, Forest Management, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Wildfires caused by misguided, largely non-existent forest management or climate change? President Donald Trump made a stop in Sacramento Monday, to meet with Gov. Gavin Newsom and discuss as the state’s historic wildfires. Air Force One landed at McClellan Airport, which now serves as a Northern [...]

8 09, 2020

Grimes: California is On Fire Again and it was Preventable

2020-09-15T13:00:05-04:00September 8th, 2020|California, Forest Management, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Environmentalists are causing actual global warming with wildfires For decades, traditional forest management was scientific and successful, until ideological, preservationist zealots wormed their way into government and began the 40-year overhaul of sound federal forest management through abuse of the Endangered Species Act and the no-use [...]

28 05, 2020

Walcher: Restoring what never was

2020-06-01T11:19:10-04:00May 28th, 2020|Colorado, ESA, Forest Management, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel One of the great objectives of conservation is to restore a more natural condition to our environment, to erase the ravages of mankind’s mistakes, and put things back the way they were. I am a strong advocate for environmental restoration, and [...]

19 11, 2019

Walcher: More Fiddling While Forests Burn

2019-11-20T13:12:13-05:00November 19th, 2019|Forest Management, Forest Service, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing on The Heartland Institute's Blog What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it’s for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, [...]

1 11, 2019

Walcher: More fiddling while forests burn

2019-11-05T11:34:49-05:00November 1st, 2019|Forest Management, Forest Service, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it's for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, that [...]

9 10, 2019

Grimes: Lawsuit: California Utility Customers Forced to Bail Out Utilities for Wildfires They Cause

2019-10-21T11:26:44-04:00October 9th, 2019|California, Forest Management, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Who’s going to bail out the ratepayers for fires caused by the utilities?’ A lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in California shows that three Investor Owned Utilities in California, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric, and Southern California Edison, have recently [...]

22 08, 2019

Grimes: Nearly 350,000 California Residents Dropped by Insurers over Wildfire Risk

2019-08-26T11:14:47-04:00August 22nd, 2019|California, Forest Management, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California could be facing a serious real estate crisis if homeowners insurance is not available The number of California’s rural homeowners dropped by insurance companies is up to nearly 350,000 in just four years, the Fresno Bee reported this [...]

18 07, 2019

Walcher Testifies on the Need for Better Forest Management to a U.S. House Subcommittee

2019-07-29T10:17:28-04:00July 18th, 2019|Bad Science, Forest Management, States, Testimony, Walcher|

Today, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow and Board Member Greg Walcher testified in front of the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands in support of H.R. 1572,“Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act.” In his testimony, Walcher noted, "In the wake of catastrophic fires that [...]

31 05, 2019

Walcher: Better wait for a real crisis

2019-06-04T15:35:13-04:00May 31st, 2019|Forest Management, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Rob Reiner's first comedy classic as a director, 1984's "The Sure Thing," is a saga of everything that can possibly go wrong for two students falling in love on a cross-country road trip. The ride they arranged from a bulletin board [...]

26 11, 2018

Edward Ring: Commentary: How the Greens Turned the Golden State Brown

2018-11-26T12:14:35-05:00November 26th, 2018|Forest Management, Grimes, Media Coverage|

by Edward Ring As Appearing in The Tennessee Star In October 2016, in a coordinated act of terrorism that received fleeting attention from the press, environmentalist activists broke into remote flow stations and turned off the valves on pipelines carrying crude oil from Canada into the United States. Working simultaneously in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and [...]

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