Posts tagged U.S. Forest Service

Can you guess the COVID infection rate on Forest Service wildfire lines last summer? Bear in mind, the Forest Service had between 10,000 and 15,000 …

Maybe we need to start naming these devastating wildfires after members of Congress that refuse to support forest restoration pace and scale.

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.

Frank Carroll, a Colorado forester and wildfire expert, speaks with Evergreen founder, Jim Petersen, concerning managed fire and his assessment of Petersen’s book “First, put out the Fire!”

The National Association of Forest Service Retirees (NAFSR) is dedicated to sustaining the Forest Service mission and adapting to today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

This is Michael T. Rains’ speech/paper to the U.S. Forest Service… “The Forest Service is now on a transformative campaign to improve our abilities and …

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 …