Posts in category Perspectives

Maybe we need to start naming these devastating wildfires after members of Congress that refuse to support forest restoration pace and scale.

This is part 3 of our series “It’s time to declare war on wildfire”.  You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. In …

This is Part 2 of our series “It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire.” Part 1 can be found here. This section begins with Rob …

It might be the Christmas season, but you’d never know it from the volume of angry email we’re getting concerning the West’s wildfire pandemic. The …

“Once you learn how to work you can do anything you put your mind to.”
“If you aren’t going forward every day, you’re going backward.”
– James S. Neiman

The federal government does not pay property taxes in any of the states in which it owns land. So the states that hold the most federal land – which are all rural – remain beggars at the congressional door.”

The immediate need is to rebuild the forestry side of the Forest Service. This means that Republicans and Democrats in the next Congress need to find an extra $5 billion in Fiscal 2021. Funds must be specifically allocated for forestry staffing and forest management – not wildfire.

Jim Hurst epitomized all that was good and decent and honorable about a vanishing breed of men who owned and operated small sawmills in hundreds of remote western towns.

Public concern always peaks in September – the worst fire month of the year – and it vanishes the moment the smoke gives way to sunny fall skies. Lost lives, homes, and towns are forgotten.

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