The Work Ahead

As we begin the new year, we want to share what Evergreen is focused on — and what it will take to sustain this work over time.

Evergreen exists to explain forests clearly, honestly, and without distortion. That mission does not change year to year, but the work itself does — shaped by emerging risks, contested claims, and the widening gap between forest science and public understanding.

Evergreen’s Focus Areas for the Year Ahead

Evergreen’s reporting and educational work is organized around several core areas. These are not campaigns or one-off topics, but ongoing lines of inquiry that guide what we publish and how we frame it.

• Wildfire risk and community exposure
  Examining how forest conditions, land management decisions, and policy choices translate into real risk for communities, infrastructure, and lives.
• Forest science and its application
  Translating forest research, monitoring, and data into practical understanding — and examining how science is applied, misapplied, or ignored in real-world forest decisions.
• Collaboration and shared stewardship
  Exploring how collaboration works on the ground across ownerships and interests, and what makes long-term, place-based stewardship succeed or fail.
• Rural economies, mills, and forest infrastructure
  Connecting forest health to the workforce, markets, and infrastructure required to manage forests at scale and keep communities viable.
• Evergreen’s long view
  Maintaining a growing body of work designed to inform decision-making over time, not just react to the news cycle.

These focus areas are reflected in how Evergreen organizes its work. Readers can explore them through entering keywords in the search bar, exploring our topic in the drop down menu at the top of the page.

Take a deep dive into our Library, Topic Tags, and long-running subject areas such as State of Our Forests, Counties on Fire, and Collaboration.

Sustaining Independent Work

Independent reporting does not sustain itself. It requires time, discipline, and the freedom to follow evidence where it leads—conditions that exist only when readers choose to support the work directly.

Independent journalism and accurate reporting and analysis require sustained investment. Reader support ensures access to work grounded in quality and integrity.

Supporting the Work

As we move into the year ahead, Evergreen will continue to rely on reader subscriptions and donations to sustain independent, science-based forestry reporting.

For a limited time, we are also welcoming leadership-level contributions of $250 to support the reporting, research, and accurate explanation this work requires.

• For new supporters: a $250 leadership contribution includes a one-year Evergreen subscription.
• For current subscribers: a $250 leadership contribution covers the next subscription cycle as a thank-you for continued commitment.

Leadership support helps ensure Evergreen can continue doing work that values accuracy over speed, understanding over rhetoric, and long-term stewardship over short-term, unsustainable solutions.

A Note of Thanks

As a thank-you, one leadership supporter will receive a framed, limited-edition, numbered and signed print - Warmth, by Chebon Dacon - from Evergreen’s personal collection. The recipient will be selected at random.

If our work matters to you — if it has helped you better understand your forest, your community, or the decisions shaping both — we invite you to help sustain Evergreen through this Offer.

If you already do, thank you.
If you are able to, we are grateful.

Health and happiness to you in 2026!
Jim and Julia

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