Posts in category Editor’s Desk

I wrote the first draft of this essay last October 9, then decided to set it aside until next summer because I thought it was …

  A Coeur d’Alene Press editor recently asked me why I believe federal judges are beginning to see collaborative forest restoration projects more favorably than …

The smoke is not clearing. Our wildfire problem is escalating at an alarming rate. The science is clear: we are running out of time to change course. Your contribution ensures we can continue our 30+ year commitment.

It would be easy for me to say, “It’s about damned time” to all the hand-wringers and wailers in the Columbia Gorge who are mourning …

Musings on the escalating wildfire crisis

Stakeholder collaboration, applied science, technology and political will are closing in on a solultion to one of federal forestry’s most vexing problems.

Wesley Moss Rickard is remembered for his contributions to forestry

The 1967 Sundance Fire will be remembered in four ceremonies marking the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic northern Idaho conflagration.

Timber and tourism have prospered side by side in Northern Idaho for decades.

We are bankrupting our future in Colorado’s National Forests In riveting testimony, Lyle Laverty explains why.