Posts in category Perspectives

Fixing the environmental crisis that has unfolded in the West over the last 30 years should not be a partisan issue.

“The time has come for society to consider alternatives to fires so large that they escape suppression efforts, often with deadly consequences. If we don’t like the fire trajectory we are on – and I don’t – shouldn’t we try something different?

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

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

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.

Rebuilding the Forest Service’s once preeminent Forestry Culture will take time and may cost as much as $2 billion taxpayer dollars annually for three to five years. Chump change when compared to the horrific wildfire losses we are suffering.

During the nastiest days of the spotted owl war, Oregon’s environmentalists frequently reminded their rural brethren that “tourism is the future.” I was living in …

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air …

California Assemblyman, Miguel Santiago, is apoplectic at the news that Elon Musk’s Boring Company pre-sold 20,000 of its “flamethrowers” in just four days last week. …

The new fret about pesticides killing northern spotted owls is worrisome on several fronts, but hardly news. Marijuana growers have been practicing their trade in …