Welcome to Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, a series of essays tracing the history of the conservation movement in the United States, and its …

If you have not read the introductory article Rearranging the Deck Chairs on Our Titanic, Click here to be taken to it. It is short …

Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-based Investment Strategy is the new U.S. Forest Service/Department of Agriculture attempt to put the brakes on the wildfire crisis …

Editor’s note: This is the last segment of a five-part interview with Michael T. Rains, who was Director of the Northern Research Station at Newtown …

Editor’s note: This is the fourth segment of a five-part interview with Michael T. Rains, who was Director of the Northern Research Station at Newtown …

Editor’s note: This is the first segment of a five-part interview with Michael T. Rains, who was Director of the Northern Research Station at Newtown …

Editor’s note: This is the third segment of a five-part interview with Michael T. Rains, who was Director of the Northern Research Station at Newtown …

Let’s manage our forests before wildfire strikes. Let’s do the thinning and standing tending work necessary to reduce the risk of wildfire…we must understand that the fire fix is just the first step toward a forest fix.

Rebuilding the Forest Service’s once preeminent Forestry Culture will take time and may cost as much as $2 billion taxpayer dollars annually for three to five years. Chump change when compared to the horrific wildfire losses we are suffering.

“THE ‘FIRE FIX’ DOES NOTHING TO BACKFILL THE HUGE GAP THAT HAS BEEN CREATED IN LOST NON-FIRE AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES FOREGONE.”   Editor’s Note: …