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 2018 western wildfire season is already underway, and the news is not good in the Southwest or Utah. Dire predictions have also been issued …
Sunset magazine’s annual camping issue is on newsstands now and, as usual, it is an eclectic and informative salute to a treasured outdoor lifestyle …
The U.S. House of Representatives has belatedly fixed the fire borrowing mess that has for several years forced the Forest Service to borrow taxpayer money …
Rich Stem, an old Forest Service friend, now retired and living in Montana, has gently chided us for not remembering the history of the agency’s …
Editor’s Note: Our colleague, Bruce Courtright, who chairs the National Wildfire Institute [NWI] at Fort Jones, California, has shared his organization’s Vision 2025 document with …
Editor’s Note: Many environmentalists have long insisted that people living in rural areas should have no say in how neighboring National Forests are managed because …
During the nastiest days of the spotted owl war, Oregon’s environmentalists frequently reminded their rural brethren that “tourism is the future.” I was living in …
Editor’s Note: Retired California businessman, Guy McMahan, sent us a copy of his response to the Forest Service’s Chetco Bar Fire Salvage Proposal. We were …
One of the Evergreen faithful asked me yesterday if I didn’t think my February 8 use of the word “war” in “War on The West,” …
