Wild Nature Institute Study Shows Logging, Not Fire, is Damaging National Forests in California
Summary
Logging on 1.2 million acres of US Forest Service land in the Sierra Nevada between 1994 and 2014 drove the spotted owl population declines (Conner et al. 2013 & (1)).In Bonds report*, she presents a data-driven narrative describing how forest fires, including big, severe megafires, have no strong negative effects on spotted owl populations.The final hole in the Forest Service story is the reality that fuels reduction thinning doesnt stop the big, hot, weather-driven fires.If the public were aware that fires are natural and necessary, spotted owl populations are not seriously harmed, and homes and communities are easily protected without logging or backwoods firefighting, the Forest Service is out of a job, or at least looking at massive budget cuts.!/dl3/d3/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnZ3LzZfS000MjZOMDcxT1RVODBJN0o2MTJQRDMwODQ!/?project=3375 3. http://headwaterseconomics.org/wildfire/homes-risk/fire-cost-background/ 4. https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/CommentInput?Project=3375 Vallejo, CA, August 23, 2016 --( PR.com )-- Monica Bond, Principal Scientist for Wild Nature Institute, has spent the past 15 years studying spotted owls and forest fire.