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Over the years, Evergreen Magazine has received countless letters from individual readers, academic institutions, corporations and business leaders. Following is a sampling of these letters. Please feel free to write us to offer your opinion. By mail, we can be reached at P.O. Box 1290, Bigfork, Montana 59911. By email, we can be reached at jim@evergreenmagazine.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Brian Cottam, Coordinator, Greater Flagstaff Forest Partnership in Flagstaff, Arizona wrote of "The New Pioneers", "WOW! I'm just about finished with the latest edition and it is AWESOME! Thanks for all the positive coverage, both about many of us individually but more important about our collective efforts to solve the challenges we're faced with." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ George Duda, New Mexico State Urban Forester, Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department, Forestry Division wrote: "My congratulations to all of you for the spectacular issue (they're all spectacular) of Evergreen, Summer 2002. "Resource Reality" is our only hope in relating to the public. "Resource Reality" is what Evergreen is all abut. We're proud of Evergreen, we're thankful to Evergreen, and like most "Resource Reality" people, we're indebted to Evergreen in helping to keep it green... My best to you, and keep up the excellent work. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "The Bountiful Harvest: Securing America's Forest Future", our issue of Fall 2001, prompted several kind notes, and one not-so-kind. Herein, we offer the good with the bad: Dennis R. Parent, Forest Operations Manager of Inland Empire Paper Co. wrote: "Thanks for the great issue of Evergreen (Fall 2001). You definitely succeeded in "putting a face" on the timber and natural resource community. I enjoyed every minute of reading this issue...Keep up the great work". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Jerry Wallace, Owner of Wallace Technical Blasting, Inc. in Woodland, Washington wrote: "Received and read a courtesy copy of your fall issue. Top rate articles, good thinking. It is beyond time that someone do what you have done with this issue. Acknowledge that forestry is here to stay and just deal with it in a sensible manner....I can recall my father lamenting in the early 1950's that had proper forestry methods been in use since the time that his father started falling timber in 1904 that we would not need to cut any more old growth but would have nice, consistently sized second-growth to log. It certainly took too long to reach this point, but now let's move forward with thinking as expressed in your publication. Again, enjoyed the read, editorial perspective and common sense approach". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Larry Wiseman, Executive Vice President of the American Forest Foundation says: "Fantastic Issue! How often does anyone read a magazine from cover to cover at one sitting -- and actually read all the articles front to back? Not very. But you got me on this one. Picked it up at the beginning of a flight and actually stayed in my seat after landing so I could finish. It's not just that the stories are engaging, or the contents important. They are. It's the writing. Color. Presentation. Texture. Power. I write a bit myself and don't think, on my best of best days, I could come with a lead like: "At 8:32 AM on Sunday, May 18, 1980, a primeval force up from the basement of time decapitated the crown jewel..." Wow. And I ain't just blowing smoke...I couldn't let this one slip by. Keep up the great work". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ David New, Vice President of Timberland Resources for Boise Cascade Corporation writes: "Compliments of the New Year. What a great gift it was to read through the new Evergreen magazine. Jim, this is really great work. I hope that most loggers and forest owners in the US will somehow get a chance to read this very thoughtful and through provoking publication....Really proud of your efforts on the Evergreen magazine". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Doug Gillette wrote, "No, I don't want any of your liberal bull----! I'm a conservative and the reason I'm conservative is because all you left wing liberals keep taking away my freedoms and my jobs. So, I'm just going to stick with my Springboard Magazine and my American Spectator." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Loren Krebs of Disdero Lumber Company in Portland, Oregon wrote: "The Bountiful Harvest" is the best Evergreen issue I have ever read. It contains the kind of information that people who are not associated with the lumber industry never get to read. If only it were required reading by everyone in the media. I commend the effort that you and Patrick Moore have put into educating people regarding our forests." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Tom Silversalmon wrote to say "What a Wonderful Web Site!!!!!" He wrote: "Jim, your current issue is another wonderful piece of work...keep it up!" He then wrote again, a few days later: "Jim...you're doing a better job than even I could do with Evergreen Magazine...Congratulations!! Pages 3 and 4 are especially well-written and down-right moving." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ We received some wonderful notes written on membership renewal forms over the last few months. Here are a few: Jack & Katherine Frank of Warren, Pennsylvania wrote: "We are so glad you are still "there", still a voice for some sustainable multiple benefits from natural resources! It is a voice that is very much in need of being heard." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A small retail saw shop in the Black Hills of South Dakota saw a copy of the Winter 2000 issue, "Should We Let Diseased National Forests Die and Burn? Is Restoration Forestry A Better Idea Than Zero Cut?". They wrote: "We are a small retail saw shop (still) selling to loggers in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We would like to subscribe to your GREAT magazine and support your organization. Please fax membership and subscription info. Thanks!!! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Another from George Bradshaw, Pleasant Hill, Oregon. "Very sorry to see you have had to move out of Oregon. Hope you can hang on and fight those that know everything about forestry but really don't know the least little thing. I wish there was some way to put the damage they are doing for the country directly into their pocketbooks. A little about myself: thirty years in forestry here in Lane County, Oregon with Willamette Valley Tree Farms, Booth Kelly Lumber Company and Georgia Pacific Company. All the work on same lands (144,000 acres) and ended up Chief Forester for Springfield Division of Georgia Pacific. Retired in 1977. Keep up the good work." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ June 28, 2001 Jim - Thank you for your June 8, 2001 letter to the President re: Western wildfires. It is one of the best-written, most descriptive, and most moving letters I have ever read. As we begin summer 2001, it was only a little over 10 months ago that an Arkansas resident/Oklahoma forester, Jim Burnett, was killed along with a companion firefighter in the 33,000 acre Kate's Basis fire on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Jim was one of dozens of AR and OK state forest service (and USFS) employees pulled from their homes and families to help their neighbors who were being burned by the worst firestorms in 50 years out West. This year, due to the dangerous wood deck buildup of ice storm damaged trees in AR and OK, we may lose some Western firefighters who will have to come to our aid. Let us all hope the President and the USFS heed your warning and answer your call for help, since we all are in this war together. In the mean time, pray for rain. Thanks again. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ May 26, 2001 Dear Evergreen Magazine: Since childhood, my husband and I have been Oregonians. Now in our 50's, we find ourselves reluctantly relocated to the state of Ohio as a direct result of the economic collapse of coastal Southern Oregon. Several years ago we did receive and appreciate Evergreen Magazine; perhaps if we'd continued our subscription over the years, we'd still be in Oregon! To make amends for this foolish oversight, we'd like to renew our membership. Please find enclosed a check for $25.00." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Marvin & Nancy Nicholson P.S. Thank you for all your efforts - praying for the triumph of common sense. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dear Sir: I don’t know who you are and I don’t know how I got on
your mailing list but I just finished my second issue (one of Timber and
one on Salmon) and felt I must tell you how refreshing it is to read
something on the environment based on history and facts instead of raw
emotionalism. My background as a hunger, trapper, fisherman, rancher, and
working for the Oregon State Department of Forestry puts me very close to
the source on many environmental issues.
I will be passing these issues of Evergreen on to my
“environmentalist” friends as they are in dire need of a balanced
education. Keep up the great work!!! Ronald C. Seed ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dear Jim: Thank you for the latest edition of Evergreen
Magazine. You did a great
job of breaking down some of the key issues surrounding the future of
timber harvesting on federal lands. Your
arguments for management of Forest Service timber resources were presented
clearly, logically and professionally. To show by support for the work you are doing,
please find enclosed my personal donation to the Evergreen Foundation.
I look forward to future efforts of the Evergreen Foundation. Rick Franke
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