OPINION: Logging will increase wildfire risk for mountain towns
OPINION: Logging will increase wildfire risk for mountain towns Karen Maki, Jeff Stone, and Raven Stevens for We Advocate Thorough Environmental Review Over four million acres burned in California in 2020. Despite this unprecedented climate disaster, CalFire is poised to increase future wildfire risk for residents of Dunsmuir, Mt. Shasta City, McCloud and Castella by approving the Soda Springs Timber Harvest Plan, which would use an unnecessarily dangerous even-aged logging method, similar to clearcutting. California officials and state agencies have repeatedly called for additional thinning ...
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