Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben interviews Yaak Valley Forest Council Board Chair and Save the Yellowstone Grizzly Board member Rick Bass about the Black Ram logging project and the need for a climate refuge in the Yaak.

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“The Black Ram Project, if approved, would consign a vast swath of old-growth forest and grizzly-bear habitat in the Yaak to clear-cutting, and would run roads through one of the wildest places remaining in the lower forty-eight states.”

“That’s why [author Rick] Bass has been calling for a “climate refuge” in the Yaak. He says that we need to “protect the great lungs of our country, the northern tier of inland rainforests, which still offer some hope for sequestering carbon in the old spruce and subalpine fir forests, which can hold 80 percent more carbon in the soil than the drier pine forests.””

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