WATER, FORESTS, AND WILDFIRE (with Chris Searles, BioIntegrity.net)

On episode 110 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Chris Searles, ecologist with BioIntegrity.net, shares his results from over a hundred field-tested projects rehydrating forest ecosystems so as to alleviate drought and reduce wildfires.

Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Chris about:

-How trees store and release moisture—evapotranspiration—to create rain.

-How so-called “wildfire fuel reduction” logging counterproductively dries out and heats up forests.

-Chris’ field-tested claims of replenishing water in forests to create localized precipitation (!)

-Forest protection as one of the most important issues of our time.

-Chris’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

The mission of Eco-Integrity Alliance (eco-integrityalliance.org) is to unite U.S. grassroots ecosystem advocates through common campaigns of mutual support.