Posts tagged U.S. Forest Service

The Forest Service’s boots-on-the-ground ranks have been decimated over the last 15 years. Lots of new people will need to be hired and trained. It will take at least a decade to restore the skill sets needed to do the necessary forest restoration work at the required pace and scale. Fire ecologists I know tell me we have a 30-year window before wildfire takes what we have not treated. If we accept 90 million acres restored as our 30-year target, we need to thin three million acres annually.

We need to build a more diverse audience composed of people who recreate in our national forests and people who would if they didn’t live thousands of miles away in places like Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Somehow, we need to find ways to close the cultural chasms that have distanced urban American from its rural roots – our shared heritage.

“Their story is very much an American story, born of felt necessities,  hardship and sacrifice. Their contributions to forestry, forest products manufacturing and their communities were enormous. Very simply, there was no “quit” in them.”

Forestry lost another giant in July – and I lost a great friend. Wayne Giesy’s contributions to the noble cause of forestry are unfathomable. His …

Sign the attached electronic petition urging Congress to grant the Forest Service the regulatory authorities it needs to treat diseased and dying national forests before wildfires destroy them.

Editor’s Note: The Forest Service’s decadal Forest Inventory and Analysis [FIA] report for Washington State is out – and boy does it ever make for …

So the Trump Administration is closing nine of its 25 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers [JCCCC] and transferring the remaining 16 to the U.S. Department …

Our colleague, Michael Rains expresses his dismay at the Trump Administration’s decision to shutter nine Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCC) and transfer the remaining …

To Purchase 193 Million Acres, Click Here.   By Steve Wilent If you’ve been reading Evergreen in the past few years or longer, you’ve seen …

Remarks by James D. Petersen Founder and President, The Evergreen Foundation FIA Annual User Group Meeting Hosted jointly by the Society of American Foresters And …