02/05/2026
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Dr. James Hansen, former Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and current Director of the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University, penned a January 29, 2026 opinion piece in the Boston Globe speaking out against wildfire โfuel reductionโ in forests and opposing the โFix Our Forestsโ Act, which would bypass bedrock environmental laws to ramp up public lands logging as proposed by the Trump administration.
In his piece, โA logging bill masquerading as wild๏ฌre protectionโ (also published on his Substack), Dr. Hansen says โconsiderable evidence establishes that the open conditions created by such logging may lead to lower humidity, higher wind speed, higher temperature, abundant grass fuel, and increased fire intensity.โ
Dr. Hansenโs concerns focus on what he calls the โdeliberately misnamed,โ Fix Our Forests Act, which has already passed through the U.S. House of Representatives, with its companion bill introduced by Coloradoโs U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper potentially coming to a vote on the Senate floor any day.
Fix Our Forests is a โTrojan horse, pretending to protect vulnerable communities from wildfire risk and improve forest health. It does neither,โ Dr. Hansen writes. โInstead, it heeds the command of President Trumpโs Executive Order 14225, which calls for the โimmediate expansionโ of US timber production from lands managed by the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.โ
Dr. Hansen cites an abundance of peer viewed scientific studies, including those of Dr. Chad Hanson from California, whose work and character has been relentlessly attacked in the media by government agencies that need taxpayer funding to carry out โfuel reduction,โ such as the U.S. Forest Service.
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