Join the Stop Clearcutting CA Sierra Club Chapter on the third (occasionally the fourth) Monday of each month at 4 PM PST for an engaging educational forum on forest‑related issues and ongoing efforts to protect what remains of these special places.
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NEXT FORUM: George Wuerthner | October 19, 2026 | Wildfire Myths and Policy Implications | Register via Zoom
PAST FORUMS:
- Ben Allen | Insuring the California Dream | September 28, 2026
- Dr. Don Huber | Impacts of Glyphosate Use on Forest Ecosystems and Human Health | August 31, 2026 (recording not available)
- Ryan Mae Handy | Building for Wildfires: Rethinking Growth, Land Use, and Building Codes | July 27, 2026
- Adam Bronstein and Jennifer Mamola | Introducing the New Directions for Public Lands | June 22, 2026 (recording not available)
- Craig Thomas | Reforestation Challenges Given an Outdated Tradition and Climate Warming | May 18, 2026
- Richard Hutto | Beautifully Burned Forests: Learning to Celebrate Severe Forest Fires | April 20, 2026
- Alex Craven | Forests and Fire: How did we get here? Where do we go? | March 16, 2027
- Michael Stohlgren and Olivia Anderson | Reducing Wildfire Risk: A Practitioner's Perspective, MO's Defensible Space | February 23, 2026
- Bill McKibben | Forests on an Overheating Planet | February 2, 2026
- Ralph Bloemers | Living with Fast Fires through Wildfire Gardening & Ignition Resistant Homes | December 15th, 2025
- Melodie Meyer | Towards True Restoration: Changing the Logging Mandate at Jackson Demonstration State Forest | November 17th, 2025 | (See Melodie's slides here)
- Dominic Dellasala| Extreme Climate & Extreme 'Active Management' Drive Unprecedented Losses | October 27, 2025 (See Dominic’s slides here)
- Chad Hanson | Giant Sequoias and High-Intensity Fire Revisited | September 15, 2025 (see Hanson's slides here)
- Matt Banchero | Invasive Mediterranean Oak Borer | August 18, 2025
- Dr. Matteo Garbelotto | Multiple Introductions of the Sudden Oak Death Pathogen | June 23, 2025 (see Dr. Garbelotto's slides)
- Sonia Demiray and Jennifer Mamola | Keep It In The Forest - A Campaign to Combat Misinformation | April 21, 2025 (see Sonia and Jennifer's slides, and check out the grassroots campaign, "Keep it in The Forest")
- Ashley Nunes | Log, Baby, Log - A Review of President Trump’s New Executive Order to Expand Logging on Public Lands | March 17, 2025 (see Ashley's slides)
- Lia Brewster and Anna Medema | Getting Involved to Protect Our Public Lands, and the Northwest Forest Plan | February 24 (see Lia and Anna's slides here)
- Bryant Baker | Understanding the Elfin Forest: What to Know About Fire in the Chaparral, Plus Lessons Learned from the LA Fires | January 27, 2025 (see Bryant Baker's slides)
- Rita Vaughn Frost, Jane Jacoby, Dr. Shaye Wolf| Stop GSNR | December 16, 2024 (see Stop GSNR slides)
- George Wuerthner | Why Forest Thinning Proposals are Misguided | November 25, 2024 (see George Wuerthner's slides)
- Chad Hanson | Mixed-Intensity Forests: Nature's Phoenix | October 21, 2024 (see Dr. Hanson's slides)
- Dr. Shaye Wolf | Emerging biomass threats: BECCS, hydrogen, and wood pellet expansion in California | Sept. 16, 2024 (click here to view slides)
- Chuck Willer | Industrial Forestry and the Water You Drink | July 15, 2024
- John Perlin | A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization | June 17, 2024
- J.P. O'Brien | Jackson Demonstration State Forest: History and management within the broader context of the redwood region and climate change impacts to forest resources | May 20, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
- 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