Mission
We support the development of a renewable wood products economy, creating a sustainable economic engine for thousands of people in historically depressed areas. The beneficial effects of a renewable wood-based economy transcend traditional economic virtues. In a virtuous cycle, good environmental stewardship becomes good economic development. Wildlife, water quality, quality of work, and life all improve.
Goals
The Living Forests (formerly Saving the West) team was organized in 2016 by the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure to promote a whole systems approach to the challenges of fire and drought in the Sierra Nevada and ultimately across the intermountain west. We have become a collaborative group bringing various individuals, organizations, artists, scientists, policymakers, and community groups committed to building enduring, informed, end-to-end solutions. We believe success is available only when we can inspire the development of a 21st-century forestry model.
The Center for the Study of the Force Majeure brings together artists, scientists, engineers and planners and visionaries to design mitigation systems and policies that respond to the issues raised by global temperature rise at the scale that they present.
We focus on identifying and developing what we call Whole Systems approaches that merge environmental, social and economic patterns of organization. These in turn generate comprehensive complex systems where human stewardship is at the service environmental stewardship.
