So much is at stake and so few seem to get it – the “it” here being the fact that Montana’s timber industry is teetering on the brink of collapse at the precise same moment when it ought to be laying the cornerstone for its own bright future.
Good morning. I am your second-string keynote speaker. Your first-string speaker, Marc Racicot begged off, perhaps recognizing what a political mine field your conference theme poses. “The Law and Forestry”: oil and water, David and Goliath, night and day, the good the bad and the ugly. You get the picture.
THE GLORY OF THE WOODS “We are sitting on a gold mine,” he says quietly. “Not just a recreation paradise, but lands that have tremendous …
Susan Jones is a Seattle architect with deep and remarkably instructive roots In Pacific Northwest forests. When Ms. Jones was a small child, four decades …
BLESSINGS, LUCK, AND A LITTLE BIT OF MAYBERRY “It was downright scary in the beginning,” Schwartz says of what it was like the first time …
BUILDING THE FUTURE “The people in my life – my family and friends – helped me restore my faith in myself,” Adams explained. “You surround …
SAWDUST IN HER BLOOD “This isn’t a dying industry as some suggest. The world’s consumers aren’t using less wood, nor should they. Wood is the …
“Conservationists who have joined collaboratives – and that includes me – fear that talk of arbitration could easily morph into talk about watering down the …
“Our Montana Forests in Focus program is the culmination of a New Year’s promise I made to myself two years ago. We needed to increase …
When we interviewed Governor Bullock, he went to great lengths to say that keeping Montana’s family owned wood manufacturing businesses in business is a key …
