Posts in category Environment

“Over the last 100 years, we have seen a literal epidemic of young trees filling in our forests. When trees are too close together and …

Lyle Laverty is one of two Forest Service veterans known to be on the Trump Transition team’s list of candidates to be the next Chief …

Susan Jones is a Seattle architect with deep and remarkably instructive roots In Pacific Northwest forests. When Ms. Jones was a small child, four decades …

“Really worthwhile social change is seldom easily accomplished. It takes a long time to build trust on common ground. Our collaborative groups deserve enormous public …

“About three years ago, I wrote an essay in which I asked whether wildfire can be both good and bad at the same time. Society …

“Categorical Exclusions will over-ride federal environmental laws and exempt logging from any analysis or disclosure of adverse environmental impacts and eliminate public involvement.” Evergreen: How …

“Measuring annual growth against annual mortality, some east-of-the-Cascades national forests in Washington may already be in a deficit, meaning they are dying faster than they …

Count us among those with definite opinions about what is needed to fix what ails the U.S. Forest Service. Given the agency’s high praise for …

U.S. Forest Service retiree, Bruce Courtright, and several of his retired colleagues composed this open letter to the nation’s 2016 presidential candidates before their formal …

There is something unethical about allowing a person or a group that refused to participate in the collaborative planning of the project to file an …