Posts tagged Forest Collaboration

The 2018 western wildfire season is already underway, and the news is not good in the Southwest or Utah. Dire predictions have also been issued …

Editor’s Note: Dennis Becker is the Director of the Policy Analysis Group [PAG} within the College of Natural Resources [CNR] at the University of Idaho. …

The U.S. House of Representatives has belatedly fixed the fire borrowing mess that has for several years forced the Forest Service to borrow taxpayer money …

    Keynote address by James D. Petersen Founder and President, The Evergreen Foundation Resilient Landscapes, Thriving Communities: Achieving a Collaborative Vision of the Future …

Many organizations claim to be public interest groups – that is to say, groups that advocate or lobby for a perceived public interest or concern. …

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 …

Editor’s note: This is the first in a continuing series of interviews with faculty members at the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources. We …

The six living former Chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service have jointly signed a letter to the U.S. House and Senate majority and minority leaders …