Search Results for summer_1996

How else should a trustee manage a property held in trust other than as is obviously considered prudent for the management of his own property?

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.

Some visitors are fortunate to be invited to walk in tribal forests.

The Yakama Reservation in southcentral Washington State is a magnificent cultural resource for the 9,800 enrolled members of the Yakama Nation.

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. "

Traditional Uses Of Forest Products Drive Management Philosophy

Resource planning greatly strengthens a tribe's opportunity to sustain tribal vision and resources of value.

How Can the Religious Freedom Needs of Native Americans be Accommodated

Softwood Resource Conditions and Management Implications

Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada

Eastern Oregon's forests and communities are in a death spiral. Can anything be done to save them from certain disaster?

The Southwest's timber industry is long gone, a victim of its near total dependence on national forest timber sale programs that were phased out in the 1990s.

Across the Northeast, net annual forest growth exceeds harvesting by safe margins, except in Maine spruce-fir forests devastated by the most recent spruce budworm epidemic.

In this Issue

Before white settlement began in America, the rules, roles and relationships linking Indians to their forests were not governed by legal codes.

An Interview with Top Industry Observers: Jim Bowyer and John Krantz

When logging slash is not properly disposed of it can be a fire hazard.

The claim that ailing western forests can heal themselves if they are left alone seems based on a belief that pre-European forests and prairies were naturally functioning ecosystems uninfluenced by humans.

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.

An Interview with Minnesota State Forester Jerry Rose

Does the Past Provide Lessons for the Future?

Tony Morrison's Lifetime Devotion To Island Forests

The Standoff Ends: Industry, First Nations and Environmentalists Make Peace. B.C. Embraces Innovative Results-based Forestry Program

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

In the future, the West's federal forests will be cared for by two groups of service providers: garbage collectors and surgeons.

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.

Eastern Oregon's forests and communities are in a death spiral. Can anything be done to save them from certain disaster?

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.

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.

Eastern Oregon's forests and communities are in a death spiral. Can anything be done to save them from certain disaster?

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

The logging industry across northern New York State and New England has a long, rich and colorful history, backed by a mountain of tradition and popular folklore.

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

It is hard to believe that the Southwest's tumbledown forests once fit Edward Beale's idyllic description, but they did.

Time is running out for forests in the Southwest. Wildfires and insects are devouring them in a death-dance unlike anything anyone has ever seen: unlike anything for which scientists can find precedent in nature.

Yes, the West's wildfire situation can get worse. In fact, it will get worse, probably much worse.