Colorado’s “Pine Beetle Task Force”: A Who’s Who of Who’s Logging Public Lands

The Colorado Department of Natural Resources’ and Gov. Jared Polis’ “Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force”—created in December in reaction to the latest natural wave of native mountain pine beetles in Front Range forests—consists primarily of representatives from governments, agencies, industries, and NGOs that carry out and/or promote scientifically-contested “wildfire fuel reduction” logging on public…

NASA Climatologist Dr. James E. Hansen Speaks Out against Wildfire “Fuel Reduction” as “Trojan Horse” for Logging

Dr. James Hansen, former Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and current Director of the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University, penned a January 29, 2026 opinion piece in the Boston Globe speaking out against wildfire “fuel reduction” in forests and opposing the “Fix Our Forests” Act, which…

Conservationist Files Lawsuit Against Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper for Alleged Violation of Colorado Open Records Act

Ecosystem advocate, Josh Schlossberg, filed a civil complaint in District Court in Jefferson County, Colorado last week alleging that Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper deleted and/or withheld emails requested in a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) filing. On September 15, 2022, plaintiff Josh Schlossberg (formerly a Jefferson County resident, now living in Boulder County) sent…

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