Email from Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) to U.S. Forest Service’s Pike & San Isabel National Forest South Platte Ranger District (currently moving forward with the largest logging project of the century in Colorado), and shared internally by Jefferson County Open Space (carrying out of the most aggressive “fuel reduction” in the western U.S.).

The email privately acknowledges that abundant science contests the efficacy of “wildfire fuel reduction,” and that the agencies “overpromise” results from such cutting, while advising to never admit this to the media or public so as to erode the credibility of independent scientists, ecological advocates, and concerned citizens.