Steve Cole
@scolephoto.bsky.social
Pacific Northwest Nature / Landscape Photographer. Fighting for Old Growth on Federal lands in Oregon's Umpqua Region. Proud San Diego State Alum.
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Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing the Timber Industry’s Greenwashing Playbook
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
(PDF) Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing The Timber Industry's Greenwashing Playbook
PDF | On Oct 14, 2025, Lyle Lewis and others published Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing The Timber Industry's Greenwashing Playbook | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchG...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing the Timber Industry’s Greenwashing Playbook
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains
Section 106 for thee, just not for me
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Section 106 for thee, just not for me
Oh damn. 😞
Historic 450-year-old Doerner fir burning east of Coquille www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2... via @salem_statesman
Historic 450-year-old Doerner fir burning east of Coquille
Firefighters are attempting to extinguish the fire burning the large coastal Douglas fir tree, known as the Doerner fir.
www.statesmanjournal.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh damn. 😞
It’s rare these days but some breaking GOOD news- the BLM is canceling the very controversial 42 Divide Timber Sale Project in Southern Oregon (for now). Oregon environmental groups were “all in” to fight this project & the EA produced was so shoddy
July 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It’s rare these days but some breaking GOOD news- the BLM is canceling the very controversial 42 Divide Timber Sale Project in Southern Oregon (for now). Oregon environmental groups were “all in” to fight this project & the EA produced was so shoddy
The BLM is trying to pull some shit with their 42 Divide project.. 😒🤨
June 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The BLM is trying to pull some shit with their 42 Divide project.. 😒🤨
Sad to see this inholding in the Willow Flats area on the Umpqua National Forest get logged. It’s bordered by 275+ yr old old-growth. One of my favorite areas in the North Umpqua now will have a clearcut scar
June 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sad to see this inholding in the Willow Flats area on the Umpqua National Forest get logged. It’s bordered by 275+ yr old old-growth. One of my favorite areas in the North Umpqua now will have a clearcut scar
I’ve become a huge proponent of digitally archiving old work. If you’re an enviro group, *please* preserve old project documents along with your group’s groundtruth efforts.
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June 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I’ve become a huge proponent of digitally archiving old work. If you’re an enviro group, *please* preserve old project documents along with your group’s groundtruth efforts.
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Ive made a map to check whether or not your favorite Northwest Forest spot now facing increased logging due to the recent Executive Order. This map combines the two criteria (Section 602 lands & very high/high wildfire risk) into one zoomable map. www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ive made a map to check whether or not your favorite Northwest Forest spot now facing increased logging due to the recent Executive Order. This map combines the two criteria (Section 602 lands & very high/high wildfire risk) into one zoomable map. www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
Random post but does anyone have recommendations for locksmiths in the City of San Francisco proper? I need to resolve some entry door lock issues for a house that’s in the Sunset district.
Thanks!
Thanks!
April 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Random post but does anyone have recommendations for locksmiths in the City of San Francisco proper? I need to resolve some entry door lock issues for a house that’s in the Sunset district.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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You can read the text of the resolution here.
bills.legmt.gov#/laws/bill/2...
Groups focused on resource extraction strongly dislike roadless areas.
bills.legmt.gov#/laws/bill/2...
Groups focused on resource extraction strongly dislike roadless areas.
March 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You can read the text of the resolution here.
bills.legmt.gov#/laws/bill/2...
Groups focused on resource extraction strongly dislike roadless areas.
bills.legmt.gov#/laws/bill/2...
Groups focused on resource extraction strongly dislike roadless areas.
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Contact committee members and urge them to vote NO on SJ 14. committees.legmt.gov#/standingCom...
Sign up to testify by 1 pm on Tuesday. You can also submit your comment by email or phone up to 1 pm on Tuesday. legmt.gov/participate
Sign up to testify by 1 pm on Tuesday. You can also submit your comment by email or phone up to 1 pm on Tuesday. legmt.gov/participate
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March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Contact committee members and urge them to vote NO on SJ 14. committees.legmt.gov#/standingCom...
Sign up to testify by 1 pm on Tuesday. You can also submit your comment by email or phone up to 1 pm on Tuesday. legmt.gov/participate
Sign up to testify by 1 pm on Tuesday. You can also submit your comment by email or phone up to 1 pm on Tuesday. legmt.gov/participate
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Tell Senate Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations committee members that Montanans want to see the few remaining wild areas of our national forests protected, not roaded, commercially logged, or developed.
March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tell Senate Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations committee members that Montanans want to see the few remaining wild areas of our national forests protected, not roaded, commercially logged, or developed.
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SJ 14 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Energy, Technology, & Federal Relations Committee on Tuesday, March 25 at 3 p.m.
March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
SJ 14 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Energy, Technology, & Federal Relations Committee on Tuesday, March 25 at 3 p.m.
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Montanans
Oppose SJ Resolution 14, which asks Congress to strip protections from >6 million acres of national forest roadless areas, including the Badger-Two Medicine, and another million-plus acres of Wilderness Study Areas on national forest or Bureau of Land Management lands.
#MTPol #MTLeg
Oppose SJ Resolution 14, which asks Congress to strip protections from >6 million acres of national forest roadless areas, including the Badger-Two Medicine, and another million-plus acres of Wilderness Study Areas on national forest or Bureau of Land Management lands.
#MTPol #MTLeg
March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Everyone - please submit your public comments for the proposed changes to NEPA! NEPA is a PROCESS but does not require a certain outcome - federal agencies utilize NEPA to consider the env impacts of a project prior to doing/funding the work.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...
www.federalregister.gov
March 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Everyone - please submit your public comments for the proposed changes to NEPA! NEPA is a PROCESS but does not require a certain outcome - federal agencies utilize NEPA to consider the env impacts of a project prior to doing/funding the work.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Zelenskyy should walk without signing anything. This is a fucking embarrassing display on our part. Total capitulation to Russia.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Zelenskyy should walk without signing anything. This is a fucking embarrassing display on our part. Total capitulation to Russia.
This isn’t just some random trailhead, either. This is a very popular year round hike along I-90 just below Snoqualmie Pass.
USFS trailheads are closing due to staffing cuts -- just wait until summer arrives, real public lands chaos looms.
Sign posted today. Mt Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest.
February 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This isn’t just some random trailhead, either. This is a very popular year round hike along I-90 just below Snoqualmie Pass.
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. No Idea
2. Political Science
3. Geography
4. Cartography / GIS Analyst
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. No Idea
2. Political Science
3. Geography
4. Cartography / GIS Analyst
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Journalism and American studies
4. Park ranger-interpreter
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Journalism and American studies
4. Park ranger-interpreter
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. environmental scientist
2. I was undeclared
3. History then Anthropology/Archaeology
4. Reference Librarian
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. environmental scientist
2. I was undeclared
3. History then Anthropology/Archaeology
4. Reference Librarian
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. No Idea
2. Political Science
3. Geography
4. Cartography / GIS Analyst
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. No Idea
2. Political Science
3. Geography
4. Cartography / GIS Analyst
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Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.
How to lobby your elected representatives
YouTube video by SKT DCA
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November 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.
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"The Medford District BLM [in OR] approved the Rum Creek Salvage Logging Project last yr, w/ no public process. This video depicts a complete road failure initiated by the logging that damaged riparian areas downstream, all the way to the Wild & Scenic Rogue River." www.youtube.com/watch?v=re7z...
Rum Creek Salvage Logging Disaster - Road Failure 1
YouTube video by KS Wild
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"The Medford District BLM [in OR] approved the Rum Creek Salvage Logging Project last yr, w/ no public process. This video depicts a complete road failure initiated by the logging that damaged riparian areas downstream, all the way to the Wild & Scenic Rogue River." www.youtube.com/watch?v=re7z...
Really surprised but grateful for this. The FS attitude & response to public comments during this project was discouraging.
Paraphrased example: “we’re building 17 miles of temporary roads on this project but we won’t tell you where they are..”
Paraphrased example: “we’re building 17 miles of temporary roads on this project but we won’t tell you where they are..”
Big news from Mount Hood National Forest! Oregon Wild has reached a settlement with the U.S. Forest Service over the Grasshopper logging project. This agreement includes major improvements to protect mature and old-growth forests, northern spotted owl habitat, and carbon storage.
January 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Really surprised but grateful for this. The FS attitude & response to public comments during this project was discouraging.
Paraphrased example: “we’re building 17 miles of temporary roads on this project but we won’t tell you where they are..”
Paraphrased example: “we’re building 17 miles of temporary roads on this project but we won’t tell you where they are..”