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NEXT FORUM:
JP O'Brien | May 20, 2024 | Online via Zoom (register online)
Jackson Demonstration State Forest: History and management within the broader context of the redwood region and climate change impacts to forest resources
JDSF is a nearly 50,000 acre expanse of Public land situated within the coast redwood bioregion. Since being purchased by California from Caspar Lumber Company in 1947, JDSF has been, and still is, managed by the state primarily for timber production. This talk will focus on the history of the state's management and the legacy that has left. We will use two independent LiDAR datasets to contextualize present forest conditions within the broader north coast redwood ecosystem and quantitative inventory/harvest data to understand how the forest came to look how it does today. Finally, we will take stock of the current state of climate change to understand how forest resources have and may continue to be impacted for JDSF specifically and the redwood bioregion as a whole.
JP is a Northern California native, raised in the mountains of Trinity County where he also worked as a wilderness patrol ranger in the Trinity Alps. Subsequently, JP earned a Bachelor of Science in applied physics, a graduate certificate in applied spatial statistics, and a Ph.D. in climate and atmospheric science. He did his postdoctoral work in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado and is currently a research affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory within the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division in Berkeley, California.
PAST FORUMS:
- Rita Vaughan Frost | California forests aren’t fuel: Golden State Natural Resources’ (GSNR) Biomass Boondoggle | April 15, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
- Greg King | History lives on: The changeless face of industrial redwood logging in California | March 18, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
- Ethan Arutunian | How we completely stopped a Logging Plan in California, and you can too | Feb. 26, 2024 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Chad Hanson | Why Recent Wildfires are the Salvation of Giant Sequoia Groves | Jan. 22, 2024 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Gary Hughes, Americas Program Coordinator, Biofuelwatch | Global Bioenergy Sector Targets California’s Forests With Massive Wood Export Pellet Scheme | December 11, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Colin Baptie and Maeve Katherine Bergman from the Guerneville Forest Coalition | The Battle to Protect The Russian River Redwoods: Lessons Learned from a Successful Campaign | November 20, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- John Talberth | The Climate Impacts of Industrial Forest Practices | October 16, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Maya Khosla | Where Are All of the Forests Going? | September 25, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Linda Sheehan | The Rights of Nature and Forest Protection | August 21, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Katherine Egland | Debunking Forest-Fueled Climate Myths | July 31, 2023
- Joan Maloof | The Old Growth Forest Network | June 12, 2023
- Dominick DellaSala | Have Western Fire Suppression and Megafire Active Management Approaches Become a Contemporary Sisyphus? | May 15, 2023
- Ernie Niemi | The Economics of Logging in 2023 – Insights from the Pacific Northwest | April 17, 2023
- Chad Hanson | Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate | March 20, 2023
- Bryant Baker | Why Recent Claims About Fire- and Drought-Related Tree Mortality and Forest "Loss" Are Overstated | Feb. 27, 2023
Fact Sheets
- Frequently Asked Questions About Clearcutting
- It’s Time to Ban Clearcutting in California!
- Healthy Forests Combat Climate Change
- Plantations Increase Fire Risk
- Clearcut Forests Threaten Our Water
- Conventional Biomass Incineration Is Not the Answer
Opinion Pieces
- Viewpoint: Work on the Community, Not the Forest
- We Thought We Were Saving the Planet, but We Were Planting a Time Bomb
- Can the Save Our Sequoias Act Match Up to Its Name?
- Opinion: We've Got it All Wrong About Sequoias and Wildfire
- Guest Column: Celebrate Earth day with Protections for Old Forests
- White House Must Take Older Trees off Federal Forest Cut List
- High Country News Engages in Climate Change Denialism and Greenwashing
- Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it, Greta Thunberg and others, 9/5/22
- It Costs Nothing to Leave Our Trees as They Are, 8/25/22
- Why mature and old forests are so important for climate mitigation and adaptation, 8/23/22
- Biden's Infrastructure Bill Promotes Subsidized Logging
- Open Letter to Decision Makers Concerning Wildfires in the West, Geos Institute, 2018 - 217 scientists sign letter opposing logging as a response to wildfires
- Want to Fight Climate Change? Stop Clearcutting Our Carbon Sinks, 2017
- The Nature Gap, Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the Destruction and Protection of Nature in America, 2020
- Commentary: Don’t be fooled by the great biomass incineration scam | CalMatters
- The Active Forest Management Scam
- Fueling the Next Rim Fire
- Rethinking Forest Fires
- Fire-Proofing Forests is Not Possible
- It’s Time to Stop Clearcutting our National Forests
- Logging Makes Forests and Homes More Vulnerable to Wildfires
- Infrastructure Spending Should Not Facilitate Sawing Down Our National Forests
- Fire Suppression Myths
Some of the Science
- Unintended consequences of fire suppression
- Retention forestry amplifies microclimate buffering in boreal forests
- Greater biodiversity shields forests from climate extremes, say scientists
- Wildland-urban Fire Disasters aren't Actually a Wildfire Problem
- Study: Burning Wood Pellets for Energy Endangers Local Communities' Health
- Integrated Global Assessment of the Natural Forest Carbon Potential
- The Carbon Costs of Global Wood Harvests
- The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires | PDF Report
- Climate-Smart Forestry: Promise and Risks for Forests, Society, and Climate
- Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus? | Elsevier Enhanced Reader
- Huge forest fires don’t cause living trees to release much carbon, OSU research shows, 3/14/2022
- Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect on Global Warming, Scientific American, 2012
- Dissolved Matter in Stream Ecosystems, L.A. Kaplan & R.M. Cory, Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, 2016, https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/clearcutting
- Severe fire weather and intensive forest management increase fire severity in a multi-ownership landscape, H. Zald &C. Dunn, Ecol Appl. Jun;28(4):1068-1080, 2018
- Global Importance of Large-Diameter Trees, Lutz et al, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018
- Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, Cook-Patton, et al, Nature, Sep;585(7826):545-550, 2020
- Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the Western United States, Bradley et al, Ecosphere, 2016
In The News
- Viewpoint: Consequences of unrestrained logging, thinning
- Forest thinning isn't the answer to bushfires
- Forests Know how to Protect Themselves from Fire
- Old Forests are Critically Important for Slowing Climate Change and Merit Immediate Protection from Logging
- How Management Affects Carbon Stored in Forest Soils
- Another Timber War Looms
- Oregon's Drinking Water is at Risk from Clearcutting
- Timber Harvests to Meet Global Wood Demand Will Bring Soaring Emissions: Study
- New Trees are No Substitute for Old Trees
- A Good Week for Forests, a Bad Week for Bioenergy
- Is the Forest Service "Falsifying the Scientific Record" on Wildfires? With Chad Hanson, PhD
- Combining Science with Poetry to Protect Post-Fire Forests: the Activism of Maya Khosla
- Landmark Study Finds Pattern of "Falsification of the Scientific Record" in Government-Funded Wildfire Studies
- Mature Federal Forests Play an Outsized Role in the Nation's Climate Strategy
- California’s giant sequoias are burning up. Will logging save them?, 8/16/22
- Sacramento Bee Misleads Readers on Logging in Yosemite
- Yosemite National Park Logging Project
- Is clear-cutting U.S. forests good for wildlife?
- Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires
- Old growth forests are most important
- Silent Forests
- Prominent progressive Democrat and scientists support stopping clearcutting
- New reason to conserve redwoods — they’re best at storing polluting carbon
- Fanning the Flames: Holiday Farm FIre debunks the forest management narrative
- The dirty little secret behind 'clean energy' wood pellets
- Debunking the Biggest Myths about Wildfires
- How a California state forest has become a battleground for logging redwoods on public land
Timber Harvest Plans (THPs)
- How Timber Harvest Plans Work (EPIC)
- THP Workshop (EPIC)
- Fight Back! A Forest Defender’s Handbook
- Forest Practices Act, establishes oversight for logging on private and state-owned forest lands in California
- 2021 Forest Practice Rules, based on the Forest Practices Act and all subsequent relevant legislation and created by Board of Forestry
- CalFire’s CalTrees, contains timber harvest plans, comments and other related documents. If you create an account, you can request alerts
- THP Blog, private site, based on CalTrees data, very accessible, not regularly updated since the coronavirus pandemic
Videos
- Frontline Voices on the Impacts of Tree Burning in UK Power Stations and How to Take Action
- Rejuvenation by Maya Khosla
- Wildfire Myth Busting – Fuel Breaks
- Beyond Burning | Narrated by Emma Thompson
- Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other | TED Talk
- How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest | Decoder - YouTube
- Carole King: 'The forest service is not serving the forest — It's serving the timber industry'
- Clearcutting in California
- Forests & Climate introductory video
- Clearcutting Kills Forests
- Clearcutting Nation
- Our Planet
- Timber Harvest Plan: Session 1
- Timber Harvest Plan: Session 2
Books
- The Ghost Forest, Greg King, Public Affairs, 2023
- The Wild Trees, Richard Preston, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
- Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests, Joan Maloof, Timber Press, 2016, New Edition 2023
- Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations and Climate Change, Daniel Mathews, Counterpoint Press, 2020
- Sterile Forest: The Case Against Clearcutting, Ned Fritz, Eakin Press, 1983
- The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear, Doug Bevington, Island Press, 2009
- Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, Edited by Jeremy B. Jones and Emily H. Stanley, Elsevier Books, 2016
- The Overstory, Richard Powers, W.W. Norton, 2018
- The Forests of California, A Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, 2020
- Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, Chad Hanson, Kentucky Press, 2021
Webinars
- John Muir Project & FCC presents: Biomass: Bad for Communities, Climate & Forests Webinar
- Costs of Industrial Forest Practices Webinar Recording
- Understanding the Science, Ep. 2: Are Current Fire Management Practices the Contemporary Sisyphus?
- The Perfect Storm Webinar
Letters to the Editor (LTEs)
- LTE Training Slide Show
- LTE Handout
- Talking Points
- Newspaper Tracker
- Recent Published LTES by Our Writing Team
- Join Our Team! Contact forests@lomaprieta.sierraclub.org
Some of our allies
- Tahoe Forests Matter
- Biofuelwatch
- Climate Forests
- The John Muir Project
- California Chaparral Institute
- Friends of Gualala River
- Forests Forever
- We Advocate Through Environmental Review (WATER)
- Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc
- Battle Creek Alliance
- Forests Unlimited
- Environment Now
- Los Padres ForestWatch
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