Lawfare Threatens Clean, Healthful Environment

By Kendall Cotton

07/30/2024

"Our chronically ambiguous federal and state environmental permitting laws have enabled fringe anti-forest management groups to weaponize the courts and shut down critical projects, even projects that are good for our forests and our environment."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

Lost Potential: The Middleman Project And The Consequences Of Our Permitting Processes

By Tanner Avery

05/14/2024

"The Middleman Project is a textbook example of how our federal and state environmental permitting processes are broken and fuel litigation that harms our most critical projects, even those that will ultimately be good for our environment."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

Derailing Collaborative Conservation: The Pintler Face Project

By Tanner Avery

04/29/2024

"Yet despite successfully achieving this collaboration, The Pintler Face Project serves as a poignant illustration of how the real problem holding vital forest management projects is actually our permitting process."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

On Earth Day, Thank A Logger

By Kendall Cotton

04/16/2024

"More active forest management is great news for those who love Montana’s “clean and healthful” environment and want to improve the global climate."

TAGS: forest management

Fixing Forest Litigation

By Hannah Downey

10/30/2023

"Reasonable reforms like these are needed to make litigation and injunctions less disruptive and fix America’s forests."

TAGS: active forest management, forest management

The Role of Forest Restoration

By Hannah Downey

07/26/2023

"With proactive efforts to restore our forests, we can begin to tackle the wildfire crisis."

TAGS: c, forest management, PERC Viewpoints

Solving the Wildfire Crisis Through Good Business

By Hannah Downey

06/27/2023

"While the federal and state government oversee many wildfire prevention and suppression efforts, private businesses are also emerging as much-needed leaders in the space."

TAGS: forest management, PERC Viewpoints

Protecting The Right To A Clean & Healthful Environment With Better Forest Management

By Kendall Cotton

06/23/2023

"Leaders must dramatically increase the pace and scale of active forest management or our right to a clean and healthy environment will continue to be put at risk."

TAGS: forest management

Catastrophic Wildfires Threaten Clean And Healthy Environment

By Kendall Cotton

06/19/2023

"It’s time for our leaders to prioritize active forest management to mitigate the growing threat of catastrophic fires and secure Montanans’ fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment."

TAGS: forest management

Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill

By Hannah Downey

05/23/2023

"Fixing our forests will ultimately require cutting through the environmental red tape that prevents many forest-restoration projects from getting off the ground or stalls them until they go up in flames."

TAGS: forest management, PERC Viewpoints

Time’s Up On The Cottonwood Fix

By Hannah Downey

04/03/2023

"The expiration of the temporary fix is a serious setback to forest restoration in Montana and around the West."

TAGS: forest management, PERC Viewpoints

Montana’s Path To Burning Back Better

By Hannah Downey

02/28/2023

"Fixing America’s Forests will require a variety of tools, but Montana has a substantial opportunity to expand the use of prescribed fire on private lands."

TAGS: forest management, PERC Viewpoints

Montana Can Control Its Own Wildfire Destiny

By Kendall Cotton

02/13/2023

"With proactive measures like these to expand Montana’s forest restoration and wildfire response capabilities, we can take our wildfire destiny back into our own hands."

TAGS: forest management

Forest Management Requires ‘Good’ Fire

By Hannah Downey

10/25/2022

"Prescribed burns, especially done in conjunction with mechanical treatments, proved their value as a proactive tool in controlling wildfires in Montana this summer."

TAGS: active forest management, forest management, PERC Viewpoints

The Cottonwood Fix Means A Return To Healthy Forests

By Hannah Downey

08/30/2022

"The Cottonwood decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2015 emphasizes how litigious groups have weaponized the Endangered Species Act to prevent forest management projects."

TAGS: forest management, PERC Viewpoints, PERC: Property and Environment Research Center