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Category: Anchor Forests
- Anchor Forests Video Series, Part 1: Land and Place
- ADDITIONAL RESOURCE MATERIAL ABOUT ANCHOR FORESTS
- ANCHOR FORESTS – MEDIA KIT
- Anchor Forests Video Series, Part 2: Overcoming Boundaries
- Anchor Forests Video Series, Part 3: Fire And Climate Change
- Anchor Forests Video Series, Part 4: Forest Policy And Economics
- Gary Morishima: The Hope Of Forest Collaboration And Anchor Forestry
- The Future of the National Forests
- Wildfire Risk and Cooperation
- Challenges And Obstacles To Increased Timber Management
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Executive Summary
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Part 1
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Part 2
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Part 3
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Part 4
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Part 5
- A Taxpayer’s Guide To Wildfires: Conclusion
- The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- TFPA — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- The Vast Potential Of Indian “Anchor Forests”
Category: Anchor Forests Video Series
Category: Collaboration
- A Call To Action: Demand Protection For Our Greatest Resource
- Youth Forestry Programs: Engaging the Next Generation
- GET OUT OF JAIL FREE?
- COLLABORATION: THE FUTURE OF FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT
- The Public Interest
- Rodney Smoldon Interview
- Kurt Pregitzer: Dean, University of Idaho College of Natural Resources
- Slouching toward Hell
- The Sense of a Goose
- STEWARDSHIP IS NOT A PART-TIME JOB
- Our Forestry Stars Are Lining Up
- A Sea Change In How Federal Judges View Collaborative Forest Restoration Projects
- MARY FARNSWORTH AND CHERYL PROBERT: Good Neighbors to Know
- MITCH FRIEDMAN: RESTORING RESILIENCY
- DAVID GROESCHL: IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF LANDS…LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR
- BRUCE WARD: COLORADO’S FOREST CRISIS…THE WISDOM OF RECREATION
- LYLE LAVERTY: IF I WERE CHIEF OF THE FOREST SERVICE…
- Lloyd McGee: Washington’s National Forests – East of the Cascades…A Pathway Forward
- GOVERNOR BUTCH OTTER: IDAHO’S FORESTS…LEADING THE WAY FOR CHANGE
- BARRY WYNSMA: CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS “DE-MYTH-TIFIED”
- DYLAN KRUSE: A COHESIVE VISION
- JIM DORAN REVISITED: WASHINGTON’S NATIONAL FORESTS – EAST OF THE CASCADES…BRING A SOLUTION
- TIM COLEMAN: MAINTAINING STAKEHOLDER INVESTMENT
- PETER KOLB: CLIMATE CHANGE, SHIFTING PARADIGMS
- JOEL WEBSTER: THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP
- GOVERNOR STEVE BULLOCK – MONTANA FORESTS IN FOCUS…IT’S WORKING!
- CHRIS SAVAGE: FOREST RESTORATION – LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE
- TODD MORGAN: COLLATERAL DAMAGE
- GARY BURNETT: WORKING WITH INTENTION
- Bruce and Chas Vincent: Losing Our Forests To Litigation
- Gloria Flora: Using Nature’s Templates
- Dale Bosworth: Moving Beyond Extremes
- Kenneth Swanstrom: Do The Right Thing
- Christine Dawe: Transparency In Collaboration
- Gordy Sanders And Roger Johnson: Pioneers Of Collaboration
- David Allen: Why Elk Habitat Is Changing
- Rodney Smoldon: The Challenge Of Wildfires In Eastern WA
- Kurtis Vaagen: Can Collaboration Replace Litigation?
- Forest Collaboration & Climate Change: Jim Doran
- Forest Collaboration: David Ehrmantrout
- Forest Collaboration in Northeast Washington: Ron Gray
- Forest Collaboration: Tom Tidwell
- Forest Collaboration: Barry Wynsma
- Forest Collaboration in Northeast Washington: Mark Teply
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Bruce And Chas Vincent
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Shawn Keough
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Bob Boeh
- Forest Collaboration in Northeast Washington: Russ Vaagen
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Marc Brinkmeyer
- Forest Collaboration in Northeast Washington: Mike Petersen
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Phil Hough
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Chad Hudson
- Forest Collaboration in Northeast Washington: Duane Vaagen
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Mary Farnsworth Part 2
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Liz Johnson-Gebhardt
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Scott Atkison
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Mary Farnsworth
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Glen Bailey
- Embracing Forest Collaboration: Mike Petersen
Category: Colorado
- We Are Bankrupting Our Future
- AN AGENCY TO MATCH THE MOUNTAINS
- Colorado’s Forest Crisis
Category: Counties on Fire
- TAMING THE FOREST SERVICE’S FIRE CULTURE
- GETTING OUR NEEDS MET
- Protecting Our Sunset Lifestyle
- U.S. House fixes the fire borrowing mess; on to the Senate
- The Silver Fire: Recovery, Restoration and Roundup
- National Wildfire Institute: Vision 2025
- Old Scars, New Wounds Part II: Firebrand
- Will wildfire and smoke kill tourism?
- The Chetco Bar Fire: Old Scars, New Wounds
- The War on the West, Part II
- Who “owns” wildfire?
- The War on The West
- How many cigarettes in a burning tree?
- California Flamethrowers and National Wildfires
- The Pack a Day Club: Part III
- The Pack-a-Day Club: The Smoky Sequel
- The Pack-A-Day Club
- Bob Roper on Wildfires and What to do Next
- Some gentle New Year advice for Tony Tooke
- Lessons From Eagle Creek
- NATURE DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU WANT
- The Sundance Fire Remembered
- PAUL HESSBURG: WASHINGTON’S FORESTS – EAST OF THE CASCADES…FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE
- Counties On Fire: An Initiative To Save Our Forests And Communities
- Restoring The West’s National Forests: Part 1
- Restoring The West’s National Forests: Part 2
- Firestorm: The Tragic Account of a Forest Fire “Blowup”
- Why Are Our Forests Burning?
- Should We Let Our Forests Burn?
Category: Editor's Desk
- Sheer Neglect
- It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire Part 3
- It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire Part 2
- It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire Part 1
- The Electoral Forest
- What do you want from your forest?
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, No. 11
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, No. 10
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 9
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 8
- ROBERT T. FRERES: 1929-2019 ANOTHER GIANT GONE
- Wayne Giesy: 1920-2019 Another Giant Gone
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 7
- Burning an Empire: NAFSR’s Letter to Secretary Purdue and Workforce Capacity Study
- Maybe They Should Shoot Smokey, Too
- “Incredibly Short-Sighted, Ineffective and Stupid”
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 6
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 5
- FIA: The Gold Standard
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 4
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 3
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy, Part 2
- Felt Necessities: Engines of Forest Policy
- TED FRERES: ANOTHER GIANT GONE
- Theodore F. Freres: 1950-2018
- Another Giant Gone
- Interim Forest Service Chief Keynotes IFOA Conference
- “Unhappy” Trump Signs Budget Bill
- The Newspaper Ad I Want to See
- 10 minutes, 15 at the most
- Dopey owls and dopey forestry
- A Sea Change in How Federal Judges View Collaborative Forest Restoration Projects: Part II
- NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK…WHAT DO WE WANT FROM OUR FORESTS?
- Wesley Moss Rickard: Forestry Giant Gone
- An Unparalleled Teaching Moment
- Crafting a New Forest Service: Unwinding the Forest Health Crisis in the Western United States
- Teaching Climate Change
- The Myth Of The Federal Lands Giveaway
- THANKSGIVING 1954
- Christmas Morning On The Farm
- On Snowy Nights: By Jim Petersen
- John Marker: Another Giant Gone
- Milt Herbert: An Exceptional Life Well Lived
- “What’s That Sound?”: Rethinking National Forest Policy In The West
- The Invisible Workforce: America’s Loggers
- William D. Hagenstein: 1915-2014
- Power To Good Earth
Category: Environment
- Fixing NEPA
- Susan Jones: Washington’s Forests – East of the Cascades…The Evolution Of CLT
- Ryan Haugo: Washington’s National Forests – East of the Cascades…Good Fire, Bad Fire
- Peter Goldmark: Washington’s Forests East of the Cascades…Not A Pretty Picture
- Bruce Courtright: The U.S. Forest Service…Headed For Extinction Or Revitalization?
- Bruce Courtright: An Open Letter To The 2016 Presidential Nominees
Category: Featured
- Up Front: Nature doesn’t give a damn which political party you claim
- Well, well! Is that the cavalry we see? (Part 2)
- COVID congratulations to the U.S. Forest Service, but….. (Part 1)
- Black Hills Pioneers: James and Sally Ann Neiman
- BLACK HILLS GREEN – CASE 1 REVISITED
- Playing Politics with “Nature”
- The smell of sawdust, grease and sweat
- Writing and pimping and your pal, Jim: Apologies to Norman Maclean
- A Unifying Message: First, Put Out the Fire!
- WOMEN’S WORK
- MANAGED FIRE OR MISFIRE?
- Yes, Mr. Sheley, this is how it’s supposed to be: An interview with Brett L’Esperance, Dauntless Air
- BLOWTORCH FORESTRY
- THE ENLIGHTENED FOREST
- FIA: The Gold Standard
- Wildfire 15,000 – Coronavirus 185
- WOMEN’S WORK-JENNIFER & KARIN-LEGACY
- WOMEN’S WORK-TANYA-BUILDING A FUTURE
- WOMEN’S WORK-JORDENE-SOLID GOLD
- WOMEN’S WORK-KANICEE-FULL STEAM AHEAD
- WOMEN’S WORK-TONYA-GROWING STRONG
- WOMEN’S WORK – LAURA – STEPPING OUT
- WOMEN’S WORK-SUSAN-MORE TO LEARN
- WOMEN’S WORK-HALLE-TRY IT
- WOMEN’S WORK-LACEY-Work Smart
- The National Association of Forest Service Retirees Letter to Sonny Perdue
- FIA DATA: The Gold Standard, Part 2
- Montana Forests: Past, Present & Future
- Ivan Doig Walked These Halls: FIA’s Portland, Oregon Roots
- The Story of Evergreen
- These are the Days!
- What Do You Want From Your Forest?
- Making the Case for Federally Designated “Focused Forestry Areas”
- #Resistwildfire
- Rearranging the Deck Chairs on Our Titanic
- MICHAEL RAINS: “THE FOREST SERVICE IS AT A TIPPING POINT.”
- MICHAEL RAINS: “TOP NOTCH LEADERSHIP SKILLS ARE KEY.”
- MICHAEL RAINS: “THESE AREN’T HAPPY TIMES INSIDE THE FOREST SERVICE.”
- MICHAEL RAINS: “THE FOREST SERVICE HAS SUFFERED A HUGE HIT TO ITS CREDIBILITY AND REPUTATION.”
- VICTORIA CHRISTIANSEN: INTERIM CHIEF, U.S. FOREST SERVICE
- The Highest Standard of Conduct
- The Firestorm of Misogyny
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: MAC LEFEBVRE
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: TERA KING
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: MIKE HENLEY
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: WES OLSON TRUCKING
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: THE MASON BROTHERS
- Congress Whistles Past The Graveyard – Again
- U.S. Forest Service Collaboration Process: Solution or Sham?
Category: FIA
- Washington’s forest resources, 2007–2016: 10-year Forest Inventory and Analysis report
Category: First put out the fire!
- Perdue, Forest Management, Wildfire, and Covid
- Managed Fire and Tempting the Wildfire Fates
Category: Forestry 101
- Forestry Legends: Interview with Mike Newton – Part 1
- Forestry Legends: Interview with Mike Newton – Part 2
- Forestry Legends: Interview with Mike Newton – Part 3
Category: Gallery
Category: Good Neighbor Authority
Category: Grace and Dirt
Category: Idaho
- DENNIS BECKER: DIRECTOR POLICY ANALYSIS GROUP, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
- IDAHO’S TICKING TIME BOMB…WHERE FROM HERE?
Category: Idaho Forest Families
- IDAHO FOREST FAMILIES
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: JEFF BEREND
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: DANNY SCHWARTZ
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: JEFF ADAMS
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: ERIN BRADETICH
- IDAHO’S FOREST FAMILIES: JESSE SHORT
Category: Interviews
- MICHAEL RAINS: “HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS?”
Category: Jim Petersen Speeches
- Land ownership changes and Their Influences On Management and Future Needs (2014)
- Does the Logging Industry Have A Future In The New Intermountain West? (2006)
- Your Story is Your Brand…and Your Product! (2010)
- The Fire Next Time (2009)
- “Welcome To the Neighborhood! Now leave.” (2007)
- No Mill, No Market, No Forest: No. 2 (2016)
- No Mill, No Market, No Forest (2004)
- The American Revolution Is Still Going On (2006)
- In Our Youth, Our Hearts were Touched with Fire
- Boy, Do I Have A Story For You!
- When You Are Up To Your Armpits In Elephants
- A Writer’s Perspective On Forestry In The New American West
- Don’t Shoot, I’m Not A Lawyer!
Category: Land & Timber
- The “Single Use Sustained Yield Act”: A Thoughtful Proposal
Category: Letters To The Editor
Category: Library
- Climate 21 Project
- National Wildfire Institute Letter
- National Forest Service Retirees – Transition Letter
- THE WEST’S WILDFIRE CRISIS
- Federal Land Ownership and Data
- Spotted Owls Revisited: Science vs. Politics
- Black Hills Green
- A CALL TO ACTION: Prevent Wildfire Destruction
- National Cohesive Wildland Management Strategy
- PERDUE’S RESPONSE TO NAFSR WORK STUDY
- RE-INVENTING THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE
- Dunn 1 and 2
- Timber Growth, Mortality, Cut
- FIRELINE: Five Ways to Avoid Wildfire Destruction in 2020
- AIR ATTACK
- TRANSFORMING AERIAL FIREFIGHTING FOR A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
- A NEW APPROACH TO WINNING THE WAR AGAINST WILDFIRE
- THE RAND Study:Air Attack Against Wildfires
- SAVE A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR:THE NEW FIRE TRIANGLE
- Sustaining The Forest Service: Increasing Workforce Capacity
- Montana’s Forest Industry Employment and Income Trends:
- Montana and Idaho sawmill and plywood plant closures 1990-2016
- Wildfire Forestry: Managing National Forests with Unplanned Fire
- A Forest Service Vision During the Anthropocene
- Western Fire Graphs
- The Washington Report…Evergreen State No More?
- Boy, do I have a story for you!
- It’s a Show and Tell World
- MONTANA’S NATIONAL FORESTS…BURNING AN EMPIRE
Category: Magazine Archive
Category: Montana
Category: Perspectives
Category: Testimony
Category: The State Of Our Forests
- 193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US Forest Service — A New Book!
- Michael Rains post Camp Fire letter to Trump
- MICHAEL T. RAINS’ LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
- Forestry’s Great Divide
- Canadian Forestry As A Model
- Forestry As Sustainability
- Case No. 1: Then and Now
- Uncle Sam Must Practice Forestry Too
- “It’s Okay To Be A Logger”
Category: Timber and Tourism
Category: Uncategorized
Category: Up Front
Category: Washington
Category: Wildfire
Category: Women's Work

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