Let’s manage our forests before wildfire strikes. Let’s do the thinning and standing tending work necessary to reduce the risk of wildfire…we must understand that the fire fix is just the first step toward a forest fix.
Rebuilding the Forest Service’s once preeminent Forestry Culture will take time and may cost as much as $2 billion taxpayer dollars annually for three to five years. Chump change when compared to the horrific wildfire losses we are suffering.
Most all of us have rolled the dice in Monopoly a time or two. Buying up properties on the Boardwalk can be tons of fun …
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, …
In the wake of PBS NewsHour’s expose on sexual harassment in the U.S. Forest Service, and Wednesday’s resignation of Tony Tooke, Chief of the Forest Service – we have collected some questions and observations on the issue. The firestorm of misogyny is in full burn.
One of the Evergreen faithful asked me yesterday if I didn’t think my February 8 use of the word “war” in “War on The West,” …
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 …
Speech delivered at the 2017 Family Forest Landowners and Managers Conference “Idaho’s Working Forests: Are they working for you?” University Inn, Moscow, Idaho Monday, March …
An Agency to Match the Mountains This PDF is available for your personal use. “A proposal for structural and cultural transformation and a U.S. …
Overview: The U.S. Forest Service estimates that 90 million acres of the nation’s federal forest estate are in Condition Class 3 or 2 – a …
