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Wildfire reports a Landmark Study: Faulty Science Used to Justify Logging Projects in Los Padres and Other National Forests

An unprecedented study was published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Fire, exposing a broad pattern of scientific misrepresentations and omissions that have resulted in a “falsification of the scientific record” in recent forest and wildfire studies typically funded or authored by the U.S. Forest Service. This falsified record has had profound implications for how public lands have been managed in recent decades, serving as a faulty scientific foundation for justifying large commercial logging and habitat clearance projects throughout the Western United States, including in the Los Padres National Forest.

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