According to The Missoulian (archive):
Several of Missoula's top federal fire scientists have been denied permission to attend the International Fire Congress later this month, leading conference organizers to suspect censorship of climate-related research.
"Anyone who has anything related to climate-change research — right away was rejected," said Timothy Ingalsbee of the Association for Fire Ecology, a nonprofit group putting on the gathering. Ingalsbee noted that was his personal opinion, and that the AFE [Association for Fire Ecology] is concerned that a federal travel restriction policy may be more to blame.
The Missoulian also said (archive):
The scientists no longer attending include Matt Jolly, who was to present new work on "Climate-induced variations in global severe weather fire conditions," Karin Riley on "Fuel treatment effects at the landscape level: burn probabilities, flame lengths and fire suppression costs," Mike Battaglia on "Adaptive silviculture for climate change: Preparing dry mixed conifer forests for a more frequent fire regime," and Dave Calkin, who was working on ways to manage the human response to wildfire.
takyon: Also at Scientific American (thanks to another Anonymous Coward).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Monday November 13 2017, @03:28AM (3 children)
Or, in the case of the US coal industry, "Only you can prevent forests".
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:27AM (2 children)
They are chopping down forests now to feed power plants that used to be coal fired. If they went back to coal, forests would benefit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:38AM (1 child)
Where is that happening?
In California, tens of millions of trees died due to a drought. Two years ago, the governor gave permission for dead and "dying" (whatever that means) trees to be chopped down and burned for energy.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Turn-California-s-dead-trees-into-electricity-9204001.php [sfchronicle.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @07:06PM
In Georgia, USA:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-europes-climate-policies-have-led-to-more-trees-cut-down-in-the-us/2015/06/01/ab1a2d9e-060e-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html?utm_term=.5d545e2c2285 [washingtonpost.com]
Slovakia and Italy:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/24/protected-forests-in-europe-felled-to-meet-eu-renewable-targets-report [google.com]