Posts in category Perspectives

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 …

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 …

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.