Spotted Owls, Clinton Plan and Deadly Smoke: One Woman's 30-Year Fight for Forest Communities and Clean Air

Nadine Bailey stood before the 30th anniversary review of Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan with a simple question: "Why would you aspire to a plan that was an abject failure? We burnt up the very habitat we were saving from the loggers." From the 2021 Dixie Fire to the backfire that burned Greenville to the ground, Bailey has spent three decades watching mismanaged federal forests turn into catastrophic infernos — and the smoke turn her neighbors into lifelong nonsmokers with Stage 4 lung cancer. This is her testimony.