Posts tagged Forest Health

What role does thinning in overstocked and diseased forests play here? “If we use insect and disease attacks as indicators of genetic simplicity, and resilience …

Governor Bullock has been pretty outspoken in his support for strengthening Montana’s family-owned wood processors. Would you agree as to their importance to the success …

“Our Montana Forests in Focus program is the culmination of a New Year’s promise I made to myself two years ago. We needed to increase …

When we interviewed Governor Bullock, he went to great lengths to say that keeping Montana’s family owned wood manufacturing businesses in business is a key …

How many projects, like the Spotted Bear Project, which had both a timber harvesting component and a restoration component, have been litigated in Region 1 …

  “Consensus building is hard work. It demands that you bring a collaborative spirit to the table. It is not about fighting. It’s about honoring …

LOGGING ON…WITH TECHNOLOGY “Loggers are optimists. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be loggers. We like our future prospects and hope to pass a good business along to …

Litigation is not a management strategy. Without injunctive relief, there can be no certainty in our active management plans and the years of hard work our collaborative’s have invested in forest restoration planning will also be lost.

Resolving differences is what collaboration is all about. It’s time to move beyond the extremes that have controlled the forest debate since the 1980s and reinvest in the land and in the people who can best care for it.

Collaboratives take time, patience and a shared understanding that conservation and active forest management are not mutually exclusive goals.