Posts tagged US Forest Service

Interim Forest Service Chief, Vicki Christiansen was the keynote speaker at the Idaho Forest Owners conference, March 26 in Moscow, Idaho. Ms. Christiansen, who was …

Despite being “unhappy,” President Donald Trump has signed the $1.3 trillion Omnibus spending bill Friday night, after earlier threatening to veto the measure because it …

    Keynote address by James D. Petersen Founder and President, The Evergreen Foundation Resilient Landscapes, Thriving Communities: Achieving a Collaborative Vision of the Future …

Rich Stem, an old Forest Service friend, now retired and living in Montana, has gently chided us for not remembering the history of the agency’s …

Editor’s Note: Our colleague, Bruce Courtright, who chairs the National Wildfire Institute [NWI] at Fort Jones, California, has shared his organization’s Vision 2025 document with …

Editor’s Note: Many environmentalists have long insisted that people living in rural areas should have no say in how neighboring National Forests are managed because …

During the nastiest days of the spotted owl war, Oregon’s environmentalists frequently reminded their rural brethren that “tourism is the future.” I was living in …

Rodney Smoldon is the Forest Supervisor on the 1.1 million-acre Colville National Forest in northeast Washington. From his office in Colville, he commands a staff …

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 …

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 …