Evan Frost
@wildwoods.bsky.social
Terrestrial-Fire-Forest Ecologist, Conservation Scientist and Principal - Wildwood Consulting LLC. Working on land stewardship projects throughout the Pacific West.
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Evan Frost
@wildwoods.bsky.social
· Dec 16
*NEW REPORT* Federal land managers are increasingly using ecological objectives such as 'restoration' & 'enhancing resilience' to approve forest mgmt projects that focus on commercial logging. To what extent are these projects scientifically informed, & likely to achieve the outcomes they propose?🧵🌏
"More than half of all standing whitebark pine trees in the US are dead. In many areas, including Glacier National Park, mortality rates have climbed higher than 90%." 🌎
Silviculturist plants seeds of hope for threatened species
->Daily Inter Lake | #threatened species #biodiversity #seed | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Daily Inter Lake | #threatened species #biodiversity #seed | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Silviculturist plants seeds of hope for threatened species
The whitebark pine is a testament to strength. Growing high on alpine ridges, where few other trees can survive, the whitebark pine persists. Its gray-white bark bleaches in the harsh summer sun and twists against hurricane-force winds. Gnarled roots clench...
dailyinterlake.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"More than half of all standing whitebark pine trees in the US are dead. In many areas, including Glacier National Park, mortality rates have climbed higher than 90%." 🌎
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UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
Wildfires have devastated more moorland, forests and fields in the UK this year than at any time since records began, putting huge pressure on the country’s fire service, figures show.
The Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares (116,204 acres) in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
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There’s a ‘staggering disconnect’ between racing to see natural wonders before they vanish and ignoring the damage we cause by racing to see them.
Glacier NP is a mirror. We overwhelm what we love… and annihilate what we don’t.
apple.news/AHnqFdP3zRc-...
Glacier NP is a mirror. We overwhelm what we love… and annihilate what we don’t.
apple.news/AHnqFdP3zRc-...
Travelers are being warned not to visit this popular US site in 2026 — The Independent
The spot is congested, garbarge accumulates fast and wildlife there is being disturbed, according to one group
apple.news
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There’s a ‘staggering disconnect’ between racing to see natural wonders before they vanish and ignoring the damage we cause by racing to see them.
Glacier NP is a mirror. We overwhelm what we love… and annihilate what we don’t.
apple.news/AHnqFdP3zRc-...
Glacier NP is a mirror. We overwhelm what we love… and annihilate what we don’t.
apple.news/AHnqFdP3zRc-...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... But this time, the fire in British Columbia did not stop.
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... But this time, the fire in British Columbia did not stop.
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The Trump admin just announced plans to gut protections for tens of millions of acres of wetlands and millions of miles of streams. Submit your public comment saying NO to this giveaway that will allow polluters to dirty our drinking water and ruin critical ecosystems: on.nrdc.org/4oSgCZX
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November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
These Hawaiʻi native plants are the last of their kind in the wild
Hawaiʻi has more endangered plants than all other U.S. states combined. Here's a look at some of the species that are so rare they only have a single wild plant left.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
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By romanticizing the past and rationalizing the present, we hide from the enormity of what we’ve done…..and are still doing to Earth’s living systems.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
By romanticizing the past and rationalizing the present, we hide from the enormity of what we’ve done…..and are still doing to Earth’s living systems.
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open.substack.com/pub/westernw...
Please call your senators. Along with everything else trumpco is doing, this psychopath will destroy many things
Please call your senators. Along with everything else trumpco is doing, this psychopath will destroy many things
Steve Pearce’s Record on Public Lands
The former New Mexico congressman nominated to lead the Bureau of Land Management has a long history of opposing conservation measures.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
open.substack.com/pub/westernw...
Please call your senators. Along with everything else trumpco is doing, this psychopath will destroy many things
Please call your senators. Along with everything else trumpco is doing, this psychopath will destroy many things
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The Endangered Species Act lets us measure our virtue even as the world empties around us.
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Endangered Species Act lets us measure our virtue even as the world empties around us.
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
Reposted by Evan Frost
"What we’ve built in the name of conservation is not a refuge but a mirror—an architecture of reassurance. The Endangered Species Act, the IUCN Red List, ... all reflect our need to see progress, not life. They allow us to measure our virtue even as the world empties around us."
The Endangered Species Act lets us measure our virtue even as the world empties around us.
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"What we’ve built in the name of conservation is not a refuge but a mirror—an architecture of reassurance. The Endangered Species Act, the IUCN Red List, ... all reflect our need to see progress, not life. They allow us to measure our virtue even as the world empties around us."
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We knew Ningaloo’s #coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
theconversation.com/we-knew-ning...
theconversation.com/we-knew-ning...
We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
Mounting evidence shows the state of coral reefs is worsening despite concerted local conservation. The answer is public pressure for meaningful climate action.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
We knew Ningaloo’s #coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
theconversation.com/we-knew-ning...
theconversation.com/we-knew-ning...
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"There is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires. In fact, a substantial body of evidence shows that such large-scale tree removals will have cumulative and mostly negative ecosystem and climate consequences." 🌎
Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"There is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires. In fact, a substantial body of evidence shows that such large-scale tree removals will have cumulative and mostly negative ecosystem and climate consequences." 🌎
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Important commentary re logging and fire
Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Important commentary re logging and fire
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“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...
www.iranintl.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Reposted by Evan Frost
great editorial on risk aversion in forest management particularly on proactive fire management vs reactive fire suppression. Equally relevant to southern Australia. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Managing public lands requires a new kind of leader
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
great editorial on risk aversion in forest management particularly on proactive fire management vs reactive fire suppression. Equally relevant to southern Australia. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Evan Frost
The equitable decarbonization rich nations should aspire to achieve.
“Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government official told Reuters.”
“Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government official told Reuters.”
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The equitable decarbonization rich nations should aspire to achieve.
“Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government official told Reuters.”
“Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government official told Reuters.”
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Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
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While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Whatever ecological resiliency and redundancy that previously existed has been lost, such that a single disturbance event can now wipe out most or all of an irreplaceable ecosystem...🌎
“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...
www.iranintl.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Whatever ecological resiliency and redundancy that previously existed has been lost, such that a single disturbance event can now wipe out most or all of an irreplaceable ecosystem...🌎
Reposted by Evan Frost
I returned to Watt’s legacy this summer in a separate piece that recalls the “wise use” agenda, a framework of resource dominance that effectively laid the groundwork for Project 2025’s approach to federal lands and waters.
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The sagebrush rebel revival, my latest in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...
The sagebrush rebel revival
Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that pr...
thebulletin.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I returned to Watt’s legacy this summer in a separate piece that recalls the “wise use” agenda, a framework of resource dominance that effectively laid the groundwork for Project 2025’s approach to federal lands and waters.
bsky.app/profile/dust...
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"We know that to prevent extinctions and achieve net zero emissions, we need to keep the old high-carbon-stock forests standing up...No other rich country in the world destroys forests like Australia does.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"We know that to prevent extinctions and achieve net zero emissions, we need to keep the old high-carbon-stock forests standing up...No other rich country in the world destroys forests like Australia does.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Have seen a lot of focus and press about the high potential for tropical reforestation. All well and good, but *primary tropical forests* continue to be felled at astronomical rates almost everywhere. Safeguarding these is where the focus needs to be. 🌎 www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Satellite imagery identifies strange phenomenon occurring in forests around the world — here's what scientists are saying
"The people who live there should be in charge of what happens there."
www.yahoo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Have seen a lot of focus and press about the high potential for tropical reforestation. All well and good, but *primary tropical forests* continue to be felled at astronomical rates almost everywhere. Safeguarding these is where the focus needs to be. 🌎 www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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The Nassau grouper, a large-bodied top predator, was once the most abundant and commercially important fish in the Caribbean.
In winter, groupers gather en masse at special places to breed, but many of these so-called fish spawning aggregation sites have been dwindling or succumbing to overfishing.
In winter, groupers gather en masse at special places to breed, but many of these so-called fish spawning aggregation sites have been dwindling or succumbing to overfishing.
Study finds important Nassau grouper spawning site in Belize near collapse
HOPKINS, Belize — The Nassau grouper is drawn by the winter moon, between December and March, to special places where hundreds of the cryptic fish engage in a reproductive dance that sometimes lasts…
news.mongabay.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Nassau grouper, a large-bodied top predator, was once the most abundant and commercially important fish in the Caribbean.
In winter, groupers gather en masse at special places to breed, but many of these so-called fish spawning aggregation sites have been dwindling or succumbing to overfishing.
In winter, groupers gather en masse at special places to breed, but many of these so-called fish spawning aggregation sites have been dwindling or succumbing to overfishing.