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Forest Health and Resilience

A long-form series on what forest health means, how it's measured, what threatens it, and what we can do about it. By Brad Wallet, PhD.

This blog has two streams. Founder's Notes are personal essays about why Rho Earth LC exists and what I'm building. The Forest Health and Resilience series is long-form writing on what forest health means, how it's measured, what threatens it, and what we can do about it. New articles publish twice weekly. About the author →
Founder's Notes
•When Your Daughter Asks You to Stop Finding Oil
Forest Health and Resilience · Phase 1: Setting the Stage
01We're Managing 21st-Century Forests with 20th-Century Mental Models
02What Is Forest Health? It's Not What You Think
03Healthy Forests Aren't Just "Lots of Green Trees"
04The Forest as a System
05Your Drinking Water Depends on Forest Health
Phase 2: How Forests Get Hurt
06How Trees Accumulate Damage: The Stress Ledger
07Why Trees Die Years After the Event That Killed Them
08The "Green but Dead" Problem
09Fire as Medicine
10When Drought, Beetles, and Fire Stack Up
11Southern Pine Beetle: The $43 Billion Pest Most People Have Never Heard Of
Phase 3: Climate Changes the Rules
12Climate Velocity vs. Migration Speed
13Rising Winter Minimums Are Rewriting the Map of Pest Ranges
14How Bark Beetles Exploit Stressed Forests
15Forests as Carbon Sinks... Until They're Not
16The Awkward Truth About Tree Planting Campaigns
Phases 4-6: Coming Soon
17-34Seeing and Forecasting · Management, Policy, and Stakes · Where We Go From Here