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“What do you want from your forest?” The first question Wes always asked when posed with a forestry question.

“Just imagine it,” Sheley wrote of his yesteryears… “Constant attack from ground and air. Most wildfires could be quickly extinguished for a fraction of today’s cost. Lives and property saved, and forests protected. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be?”

Frank Carroll, a Colorado forester and wildfire expert, speaks with Evergreen founder, Jim Petersen, concerning managed fire and his assessment of Petersen’s book “First, put out the Fire!”

What Ken Brauner did was to put people and forestry back into the environmental equation, so we can all see what is possible.

FIA: The Gold Standard delves into the work of FIA highlighting the four main regional research stations within the U.S. – and the specific focus …

Congress hasn’t gotten it right where the U.S. Forest Service budget is concerned – for more than 30 years. It shorts our nation’s largest forest landowners by $2 billion to $3 billion every year.

“Their story is very much an American story, born of felt necessities,  hardship and sacrifice. Their contributions to forestry, forest products manufacturing and their communities were enormous. Very simply, there was no “quit” in them.”

“If community stability in its fullest sense is to be realized along with the other phases of the forest program, then the purely forest management aspect must be given much greater consideration.”

Karin’s daughter Jennifer refers to her mom as the “mom of the mill.” “She’s feisty – she taught me how to do this job,” Jennifer tells me. Proudly she adds, “She knows which boards to move before they ever get to me.”

“Manual labor is all in your head…you have to have the right mindset to do this work.”