Fire from the sky changed everything
Twenty years ago today, the Silver fire complex ignited, and forest science has never been the same since
When sizzling lightning storms peppered southwestern Oregon on the evening of Aug. 30, 1987, Dave Perry was already a well-respected forestry professor at Oregon State University. Read more…
2 options offered to save spotted owl
The federal government yesterday released a draft plan to save the northern spotted owl, nearly two decades after the bird’s listing as a “threatened” species crippled the Northwest timber industry. Read more…
Judge rejects salmon lawsuit
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A federal judge ruled the government does not have to count hatchery salmon along with wild fish when deciding whether to protect a species. Read more…
Scientists Pan Spotted Owl Recovery Plan
Scientists reviewing the latest Bush administration plan for saving the northern spotted owl have given a big thumbs-down. The government contracted with two scientific societies to do a peer review. Top experts scrutinized the new owl recovery plan that could increase logging in Northwest forests. Dominic DellaSala is a conservation biologist on the owl recovery team. He endorses the reviewers’ call to start over. Read more…
Pine beetles infest Crater Lake rim
Warming is probably the cause of the insects’ proliferation
Global warming is the prime suspect in a mountain pine beetle infestation that is killing the whitebark pine trees on the rim of Crater Lake. Read more…
DellaSala to testify before Congress
Dominick DellaSala of Ashland will testify before Congress next week, during which he plans to ask federal lawmakers to investigate whether political interference has skewed the draft recovery plan to save the northern spotted owl. Read more…
The Return of the Spotted Owl Wars
Northern spotted owl’s decline revives old concerns
Ashland, Ore. – Twenty years after the northern spotted owl became the prime symbol for endangered species and habitat protection, it’s back in the news and steeped in controversy. Read more…
Owl’s ‘critical habitat’ may be reduced
For the first time since coming under federal protection 15 years ago, the northern spotted owls’ forest haven may be in jeopardy. Read more…
More time to comment on owl plan
The comment period for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ controversial draft recovery plan for the threatened northern spotted owl has been extended to Aug. 24. Read more…
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Arsum is the Senior Adaptation and Coastal Resilience Specialist for the National Wildlife Federation’s Southcentral Region. In this role, she advances climate adaptation efforts, with a focus on nature-based approaches to address the impacts of climate change and extreme events across the Gulf region. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications on climate impact assessments and adaptation solutions. Additionally, she regularly participates in state-based coastal resilience and hazard mitigation planning across the Gulf, collaborating with regional and local stakeholders.
Frank is the former President of the Reinsurance Association of America. Frank currently serves on the Advisory Board of the OECD’s International Network for the Financial Management of Large-Scale Disasters, the RAND Center on Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation, and the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner III Center for Insurance and Risk Management Advisory Board.
Jim is a multilingual world traveler. Based in Bavaria during the 1970s, Jim spent most of this period in India, Afghanistan and Nepal, where he founded and operated a charitable medical clinic serving Tibetan Refugees. He settled in Oregon in 1983 on a forested ranch in the Umpqua National Forest.
Dr. Micah Hahn is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health in the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. She received her joint PhD in Epidemiology / Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MPH in Global Environmental Health from Emory University. Subsequently, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the CDC Climate and Health Program, and in this position worked collaboratively with the CDC Division of Vector-borne Diseases and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her research focuses on understanding the health impacts of climate change and working with communities to develop locally-relevant adaptation and resilience-building strategies. Dr. Hahn is also on the Management Team of the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Michael is a former Founding Principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, a global non-profit helping cities and their partners tackle their toughest challenges. He is currently the Executive Director of Climate Resilience Academy at the University of Miami.
Dr. Quintus Jett is a consultant, educator, and strategist for public causes. He has a doctorate in Organizations & Management from Stanford University, and a two-decade faculty career which spans schools, departments, and programs of business, engineering, liberal studies, divinity, and public and nonprofit management. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Dr. Jett launched a volunteer project in New Orleans, which enlisted residents, students from over a dozen colleges and universities, and hundreds of others to field map the city’s Gentilly district, Lower Ninth Ward, and New Orleans East. Dr. Jett is an innovator in higher education, bridging the divide between academic research and the other priorities of the modern university, including student access and diversity, community engagement, and providing foundations for life-long learning in today’s rapidly changing world.
Scott is Monfort Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He has written about 100 publications in the peer-reviewed climate literature, is a former editor of the Journal of Climate, and served for five years as founding Science Chair of the North American Carbon Program.
Linda has many years of experience in disaster preparedness and resilience. She has been an elected official on the Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors, Chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the East Central Iowa Council of Governments, the statewide Mental Health Developmental Disability and the Linn County Board of Health. Langston is a former president of the National Association of Counties (2013-2014).
Ken works with families and organizations as a mediator, organizational consultant, trainer and facilitator. Along with his passion for helping people prepare for and reduce climate change, Ken also volunteers as a mediator through Mediation Works and is passionate about supporting youth through mentoring with Boys to Men of Southern Oregon.
Matthew is a retired high school teacher who was once honored as Oregon High School Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Before his teaching career he was in the restaurant business in Portland. He is also a lawyer who has been a member of the Oregon State Bar Association since 1980.
Andrea is the Resilience Policy Advisor for the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency. She works across state agencies and with local governments to increase the state’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.