Yosemite’s top official and the National Park Service are being sued by a non-profit over the park's forest thinning project.
“What goes on paper and what goes on in the field are always different,” said wildlife biologist Maya Khosla. She doesn’t believe general forest thinning necessarily works and fears it’s threatening Yosemite’s ecosystem.While many leading forestry experts support some sort of wildfire prevention that includes thinning, conservationists like Khosla believe the federal government is coming in too hot and lawsuits, at times, are necessary to prevent overreach.together.
“We’re trying to protect native biodiversity in our forest. We’re trying to protect human communities from wildfire,” Hanson said. “This is not just a technicality or some procedural thing. It really matters in terms of what [Yosemite] is doing and what the impacts would be.”This fight over how to manage our forests is nothing new. But the Property Environment Research Center contends lawsuits, like the one filed by the Earth Island Institute, are creating a new kind of danger.
“There have been examples of situations where litigation and red tape delayed projects to the point that catastrophic wildfire actually burned through the area and destroyed the environmental resources that were supposed to be protected,” Wood said. “A decade ago, the Klamath National Forest came up with a plan to reduce wildfire risk and protect northern spotted owl habitat.
The Nation Forest Service agrees forest management needs to happy now and at a large scale in Yosemite and nationwide. The agency told the Investigative Unit “the scale and methods on the ground have not matched the need” when it comes to forest treatment, and it’s now confronted with “a full-blown wildfire and forest health crisis.”
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