Posts in category Editor’s Desk

Yesterday, I went looking for an essay I wrote maybe 25 years ago titled, The Sense of a Goose. I found it on the Internet …

 Just when I thought this story could not get any better, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute hands me a gift-horse in the form of a …

I never cease to be amazed by the stuff that comes over the transom here at Evergreen. Just when I thought I’d said all that …

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