Resources about Clearcutting and the Impacts of Logging 

Sections

• Forest Protection Forums
• Fact Sheets
• Opinion Pieces
• Some of The Science
• In The News
• Videos
• Books
• Webinars

Forest Protection Forums

• Melodie Meyer | Towards True Restoration: Changing the Logging Mandate at Jackson Demonstration State Forest | November 17th, 2025
• Dominick DellaSala | Extreme Climate & Extreme 'Active Management' Drive Unprecedented Losses | October 27, 2025 (See Dominick’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)
• George Wuerthner | Why Forest Thinning Proposals are Misguided | November 25, 2024 (see George Wuerthner's 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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!
• Plantations Increase Fire Risk
• Clearcut Forests Threaten Our Water
• Industry-Impacts-on-US-Forests.pdf
• Snags - The Wildlife Tree 

Opinion Pieces

• Should One Remove Adjacent Vegetation By Homes?
• ‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
• Why Thinning Forests is Poor Wildfire Strategy - Western Watersheds Project
• Logging in disguise: How forest thinning is making wildfires worse
• Fuel Reduction Logging Increases Wildfire Intensity
• What ‘Three Little Pigs’ can teach us about wildfire preparedness  | Guest Perspectives
• Home Hardening Not Fuel Reduction – The Wildlife News
• Commentary: Don't believe everything about forest thinning
• Industry's Not-So-Golden Plan for California's Forests
• White House must redirect the forest service to preserve old forests
• Biden Shouldn't Give Wood Pellet Biomass Clean-Energy Tax Credits - Bloomberg
• Viewpoint: Forest thinning intensifies global warming (missoulacurrent.com), Missoula Current
• Is Reducing Wildfire Fuels Common Sense? – The Wildlife News
• Earth Month Reflection, 2024
• Viewpoint: Work on the Community, Not the Forest
• We Thought We Were Saving the Planet, but We Were Planting a Time Bomb
• 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

• Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
• Retention forestry amplifies microclimate buffering in boreal forests
• The Carbon Costs of Global Wood Harvests
• 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 
• Effect of Frequent Clearcutting on Soil and Vegetation Recovery
• NASA Maps Oregon’s Clearcutting Epidemic
• Clearcutting Tied to 18-Fold Increase in Flood Risk
• Social sustainability amid violence: the Chilean example of tree monocultures, October 2025
• Environmental Consequences of Monoculture Plantations, November 2025
• Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires | PNAS, 11/25
• Natural forests store significantly more soil carbon than artificial plantations, shows study | Research Matters, 2/26

In The News

• Industry-managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds
• Emergency Forest Cutting Will Exacerbate Wildfires – The Wildlife News
• Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging - The Washington Post
• Is Colorado cutting down too many trees to fight wildfires? - The Colorado Sun
• Why the Fix Our Forests Act will backfire in the long run - Verdict
• Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction – World Energy Data
• US Forest Service failing to protect old-growth trees from logging, critics say | Trees and forests | The Guardian
• Selective logging proponents state their forestry case - Prince George Citizen
• JMP Press Release: Biden Old-Growth Amendment is Logging Plan in Disguise
• The British Are Coming! The Invasion of California’s Forests? - Rachel Carson Council
• Viewpoint: Consequences of unrestrained logging, thinning
• 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
• 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
• Prominent progressive Democrats and scientists support stopping clearcutting
• Federal Judge Nixes Rule That Enabled Clearcutting in the Name of Taming Wildfires – Mother Jones, 1/26
• The 'unintended consequences' from massive deforestation projects continue to mount • Daily Montanan, 6/26  
• The 'unintended consequences' from massive deforestation projects continue to mount • Daily Montanan 

Videos

• Salvage logging is a bad idea
• Monster on the Horizon (4 minutes) on Vimeo
• Wood pellets boom in the US raises health and environmental concerns
• 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

• Clearcut: The Deforestation of America by Nancy Wood, Sierra Club, 1972
• Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, Green Books, 2004.
• Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress's 1864 Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grant by Derrick Jensen,1975, Keokee Publishing Co.
• Clearcutting: A Crime Against Nature by Edward C. Fritz, 1989, Eakin Press
• The End of Clear-Cutting: The Silent Paradigm Shift in Nordic and Baltic Forestry by Johan Adolfsson,  2025, Kommalong AB. 
• The Ghost Forest, Greg King, Public Affairs, 2023
• The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear, Doug Bevington, Island Press, 2009

Webinars

• Costs of Industrial Forest Practices Webinar Recording
• Understanding the Science, Ep. 2: Are Current Fire Management Practices the Contemporary Sisyphus?
• The Perfect Storm Webinar