Posts tagged Forest Management

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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I never cease to be amazed by the stuff that comes over the transom here at Evergreen. Just when I thought I’d said all that …

New Forest Service Chief, Tony Tooke, has his hands full. The West’s wildfire-ravaged National Forests are falling apart, and so it seems is the U.S. …

The smoke is not clearing. Our wildfire problem is escalating at an alarming rate. The science is clear: we are running out of time to change course. Your contribution ensures we can continue our 30+ year commitment.