Posts in category Editor’s Desk

Overview: The U.S. Forest Service estimates that 90 million acres of the nation’s federal forest estate are in Condition Class 3 or 2 – a …

Editor Jim Petersen discusses the Idaho court’s decision to allow the responsibility of teaching climate change to fall back to the state’s teachers.

March 11, 2017 It’s a shame that the folks who are hyperventilating about the rumored “federal lands giveaway” aren’t equally concerned about the fact that …

I miss them all, but I have my mother’s photo albums, and the flood of memory they bring, to remind me why Thanksgiving Day will always be my favorite day of the year.

When I was a youngster growing up in northern Idaho, my grandparents managed a farm that belonged to Bonner County. Around Sandpoint, which was the …

On snowy nights back in the Forties my father often took me for sleigh rides after dinner…

The forestry world has lost another giant. John Marker, a much admired U.S. Forest Service retiree, recently passed away at his home in Hood River, …

The forestry world lost another giant this month. Lumberman, Milt Herbert, who one admirer once called “our industry’s prince,” died December 10 in Roseburg, Oregon. …

“There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I …

It is 5:00 AM in any given time zone across these United States. While many are hitting the snooze alarm, or enjoying their first cup …