Posts tagged Timber

Editor’s Note: Gordy Sanders has been a leader in Montana’s forest collaborative movement since its inception about 15 years ago. He is the current chairman …

This full-page advertisement in the May 2 Wall Street Journal that caught my eye: A Federal Court has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, …

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

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 …

 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 …

Timber and tourism have prospered side by side in Northern Idaho for decades.

So much is at stake and so few seem to get it – the “it” here being the fact that Montana’s timber industry is teetering on the brink of collapse at the precise same moment when it ought to be laying the cornerstone for its own bright future.

Good morning. I am your second-string keynote speaker. Your first-string speaker, Marc Racicot begged off, perhaps recognizing what a political mine field your conference theme poses. “The Law and Forestry”: oil and water, David and Goliath, night and day, the good the bad and the ugly. You get the picture.

THE GLORY OF THE WOODS “We are sitting on a gold mine,” he says quietly. “Not just a recreation paradise, but lands that have tremendous …