Communities for Healthy Forests

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Healing the Burn

Part 12/12 Benefit the Planet, Benefit the Forests, and Benefit the Community

Part 11/12 Making An Informed Choice Understanding the Consequences

Part 10/12 Restoring Our Forests to Serve Our Communities' Needs

Part 9/12 Determining Best Practices for Overcrowded Forests

Part 8/12 Restoring Forests to Their Ancient, Naturally Healthy Condition

Part 7/12 Dead Trees Post-Fire Contribute More Greenhouse Gasses Than the Wildfire Itself

Part 6/12 Healthy Soils to Sustain Healthy Forests

Part 5/12 Forests Fires Today Are Unnatural

Part 4/12 Overcrowded Forests Contribute to Greenhouse Gasses Increasing In Our Atmosphere

Part 3/12 Scientists Help Communicate the Alarming Global Issue

Part 2/12 The Notable Increase in Forest Fires and Decay

Part 1/12 Introduction-What Role Does the Forest Play in the Carbon Cycle

Part 6/6 There Are Two Choices

Part 5/6 A Wasting Opportunity The Federal Process Must be Changed

Part 4/6 The Tillamook Fire A Community Recovery Initiative

Part 3/6 Mt. St. Helens A Post-Fire Federal and Private Forest Land Comparison

Part 2/6 The Burned Landscape After a Fire

Mission Statement

Communities for Healthy Forests was founded to inform the public, natural resource managers and policy makers about catastrophic stand clearing events in public forests caused by fire and other disasters. Communities for Healthy Forests exists to illustrate and explain the benefits of applying the best scientifically supported prescriptions for restoring health to overgrown forests and to rehabilitate severely damaged forests promptly following such events.

In The News ...

Spring Cleaning Tips: Protecting Your Home from Wildfire

Spring cleaning means more than just dusting off the shelves in the pantry and throwing out old boxes of junk in the garage, especially for those living in rural areas susceptible to wildfires. Homes are major fuel sources for wildfires and each year thousands of homes are burned and destroyed by wildfires across the United States. For those who enjoy living close to the natural beauty of the...

Salvage Logging and Watershed Impact

Over the past 20 years a significant amount of attention has been directed at salvage logging operations and their impact on the local watershed after a fire. A lot of bellicose rhetoric has been thrown around from agencies and organizations that strictly oppose any and all fire restoration activities, and a large percentage of that negative attention is specifically pointed at salvage logging....

Wildfire Season Under Way

Wildfire season is already under way. In mid March a wildfire broke out in a heavily populated cabin resort area of the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. The blaze quickly spread from tree to tree and rooftop to rooftop consuming more than 60 cabins and neighboring structures. More 200 people had to be evacuated, many of them permanently displaced as the fire destroyed their homes and...

The Value of a Tree

I’m sure you’ve heard of the saying “time is money.” Well, some scientists are proving that the age old adage could just as easily be “trees are money.” Over the past couple of years, scientists and researchers from the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and the Pacific Southwest Research Station have been studying the value of trees in the Pacific Northwest area. The...

The Association of O&C Counties sent a letter last week to U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) about the recent closure of Josephine County's last sawmill and the failure of federal forest policies to protect the well-being of rural communities. The consequences of these failed policies were also illustrated in a Grants Pass Daily Courier story about the...