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On episode 146 of the Green Root Podcast, Sam Stearns, founder of Friends of Bell Smith Springs, announces a great victory for forest protection and how other ecosystem advocates might win just as big.
Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Sam about:
-How grassroots conservation groups stopped the McCormick logging scheme in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois;
-The U.S. Forest Service’s withdrawal of the “Shawnee Prescribed Fire” scheme (backed by The Nature Conservancy), also in the Shawnee N.F.;
-How “prescribed burning” is ecologically inappropriate in eastern hardwood forests and, in western forests, is typically coupled with destructive Wildfire Pretense Logging;
-What grassroots groups across the U.S. can learn from such huge back-to-back victories;
-Sam’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.
