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Softwood Resource Conditions and Management Implications

The United States is falling further and further behind in forest product research. Canada, Finland, Sweden and the European Economic Community are setting the global standard now.

I'd recommend the Forest Products Lab to anyone. They do a marvelous job." Phil Archuletta

Does the Past Provide Lessons for the Future?

If we stop managing National Forests, they will decline and die, just as they've done at least 16 times since the last Ice Age.

In this issue, we write about forests and forestry in the Northeast. To grasp the magnitude of this story, turn to the back page. There you will find a list of 183 contributors who helped fund this project.

Listening to the National Forest harvest debate from the sidelines, one might easily conclude not much has changed in the Forest Service over the last 25 years, but the agency and its mission are both very different than they were-even ten years ago.

The skies have cleared over northern Arizona and New Mexico, marking the end of the worst Southwest forest fire season in anyone's memory.

It has been a god-awful fire season in the Southwest. Just ask Bob Hennkens.

Sustainability Sets the Pace In Provincial Forests

In this issue, we write about the still unfolding scandal in the Oregon State University College of Forestry.

In this issue, we write about the still unfolding scandal in the Oregon State University College of Forestry. It is meticulously researched and, we hope a thoughtfully written assessment of the so-called "Donato controversy"-a lamentable if not inexcusable act orchestrated from the shadows by at least two OSU professors and one Forest Service scientist.

For thousands of years Salish and Pend d'Oreille people have been lighting fires in the Northern Rockies for the benefit of plant and animal communities.

The forest is in your hands, take care of it for the people," those are the words of my grandfather, Alfred Nolan Colegrove, Sr.

So this is exciting, we've been crouched in the huckleberry for nearly an hour surrounded by a billion mosquitoes and finally the owl has taken a mouse. "

Tucked into the corrugated folds of far Southwest Oregon, the Siskiyou National Forest has been ground zero in the national forest policy wars for 25 years.

Attend any public meeting on forest management and you'll probably encounter a whole school of red herring.