Dr. Dominick DellaSala talks about fire, including how wildfire is beneficial to our ecosystems. Does thinning help reduce fire? Does it help the forest? It depends. In any case, Dr. DellaSala explains why salvage logging a burned forests is so destructive. Dr. DellaSala also explains the relationship between climate change and forests, and the carbon capture and release of a forest. Finally, Dominick summarizes the green-new-deal from congress.

In the last part of this podcast I talk more about the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, the BLM's 2018 no-mitigation policy, and the new 885-acre reserve the BLM plans to give to Jordan Cove.

For more information:

Geos Institute: https://www.geosinstitute.org/

Timothy Egan, the Big Burn: https://www.timothyeganbooks.com/the-big-burn

Green New Deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

BLM no-mitigation policy: https://www.blm.gov/policy/im-2019-018

New 885-acre BLM reserve given to a foreign corporation: page 2 of the DEIS.

Writing FERC comments: https://www.nolngexports.org/write-comments