Posts tagged Conservation

Rodney Smoldon is the Forest Supervisor on the 1.1 million-acre Colville National Forest in northeast Washington. From his office in Colville, he commands a staff …

Editor’s Note: Retired California businessman, Guy McMahan, sent us a copy of his response to the Forest Service’s Chetco Bar Fire Salvage Proposal. We were …

Editor’s Note: to read Jim Petersen’s complementary essay Slouching Toward Hell, click here. Who “owns” wildfire? Mark Finney, a PhD wildfire ecologist at the Forest Service’s …

“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 …

A cigarette is what, three inches long? A burning tree is anywhere from 100 to 250 feet tall How many cigarettes in a burning tree? …

For the past month, the Forest Service has been soliciting public suggestions for increasing the operational efficiency of the National Environmental Policy Act. The comment …

The do’s and don’ts of the regulatory hell-hole Congress has created for the Forest Service are on display in the draft Rice Ridge salvage proposal …

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 …

 Just when I thought this story could not get any better, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute hands me a gift-horse in the form of a …