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📖 First Book Selection: Smokescreen by Chad Hanson

In Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, scientist and activist Chad T. Hanson makes a powerful, evidence-based case for rethinking fire—seeing it not as a disaster, but as an essential part of forest health and climate resilience.

Hanson explains how natural alarm over wildfire has been marshaled to advance corporate and political agendas, notably those of the logging industry. He also shows that, in stark contrast to the fear-driven narrative around these events, contemporary research has demonstrated that forests in the United States, North America, and around the world have a significant deficit of fire. Forest fires, including the largest ones, can create extraordinarily important and rich wildlife habitats as long as they are not subjected to postfire logging.

Smokescreen confronts the devastating cost of current policies and practices head-on and ultimately offers a hopeful vision and practical suggestions for the future―one in which both communities and the climate are protected and fires are understood as a natural and necessary force.

👀 What's Next:

After we wrap up Smokescreen, the next books on our list are:

Next up!
Canopy of Titans, by Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate - (July 23rd, August 20th, September 13/14th)

Followed by:
-Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism, by Mitch Friedman
The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard
The Final Forest, by William Dietrich