By Timothy Coleman
How are forests best restored to not only reduce wildfire risk to communities, but to also prepare for our changing climate? The first principle is to keep all the old fire-resistant trees, such as Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. Yet those are the trees that the Colville National Forest is targeting in the Sanpoil project, which a District Court has found illegal.
Published in the Spokesman-Review on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023