Editor's Column
This Is Embarrassing III
Posted: 2009-08-10

This is Embarrassing II
Posted: 2009-07-24

Congress Whistles Past the Graveyard - Again
Posted: 2009-06-22

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Guest Columns
Jim Erickson & Gary Morishima: Indian Forestry - Imagine the Possibilities
Posted: 2010-01-26

Bob Devlin: Deplorable Conditions in Umpqua National Forest Deserve Active Management
Posted: 2009-11-18

Steve Marks: Frustration Boils Over
Posted: 2009-10-13

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Forest Facts
Some 1.5 billion trees are planted in the U.S. every year, about 5 trees for every American.

Annually, U.S. forestland owners plant about 6 trees for every tree harvested.

About one-third of America's original forest - some 300 million acres - have been converted to other uses, principally agriculture.

There are 26 million more acres of forestland in the Northeast than there were in 1900.

Today, forests blanket about one-third of the U.S. land base and about half the U.S. East.

U.S. annual growth rates have exceeded harvest rates since the 1940's.

Timber harvesting is forbidden on 50% of all National Forest lands in the U.S.

National Forests account for 20% of the nation's forestlands and 19% of its timberlands.

National Forests hold 46% of the nation's softwood timber inventory but only provide 6% of the annual harvest.

Since 1986, the harvest of timber from America's national forests has declined 70%.

In the West, 34% of all forestland and 54% of all timberlands are in national forests.

National forests in the Pacific Coast and Intermountain West regions hold 68% of the nation's softwood timber inventory, but provide less than 28% of annual harvest.

Forest density has increased 40% in the U.S. over the last 50 years.

Flying Finns

The Demise of the BIG Corporate
Timber Industry in Missoula, Montana


Our friend, Craig Thomas, who is one of Montana's most innovative loggers, has returned from his midwestern odyssey - clearning brush from a gas pipeline - and is now unemployed. With nothing but time on his hands, he's been doing some "out of the box" thinking about the future of Montana's timber industry.  Click below to learn more about where he thinks the future lies and click here to go to "Editor's Column and read "This is Embarrassing I, II and III,".  Here, we describe how ridiculous it was that Craig had to go all the way to Kansas to find work.





Two young ladies mug for a friend's camera in this 1999 picture taken at the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Lake Itasca, Minnesota. It is possible to literally walk across the Mississippi on the rocks these girls are standing on. Nearby Itasca State Park, established in 1891, is Minnesota's state park. The park's interpretative signs do an excellent job of describing various tree species that grow across the state.
Two young ladies mug for a friend's camera in this 1999 picture taken at the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Lake Itasca, Minnesota. It is possible to literally walk across the Mississippi on the rocks these girls are standing on. Nearby Itasca State Park, established in 1891, is Minnesota's state park. The park's interpretative signs do an excellent job of describing various tree species that grow across the state.


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Provider Pals students, Marni Zaoner, Eureka, Montana and Shani Gardner, New York City, happily mugged for the camera on a TBC Logging Company site near Libby, Montana in the summer of 2005. Provider Pals is an award winning educational program designed to build bridges of understanding and respect between the cultures of urban and rural youth and their natural resource providers. The non-profit Evergreen Foundation has been a strong supporter of Provider Pals, also a non-profit, for more than a decade. Learn more at www.providerpals.com.


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