Editor's Column
Posted: 2011-12-13
Posted: 2011-05-26
We have been deluged by responses to Barry Wynsma's thoughtful essay on Forest Service leadership - or the lack thereof. Provided here is some feedback on the essay.
Posted: 2011-05-17
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W.V. "Mac" McConnell writes from Florida. He is a U.S. Forest Service retiree whose Power Point presentations have appeared on our website many times. His latest efforts are nearby: an updated version of his earlier "Timber Resource Management" Power Point and a fascinating photograph, "One Landscape: Four Views," that shows what is happening on adjacent public and private forests at Deep Creek, near Townsend, Montana.
Guest Columns
Posted: 2012-02-02
Posted: 2012-01-09
Editor's comment concerning Mike Petersen's (Executive Director - Lands Council) Response To Dr. Tom Bonnicksen's Essay, "Death Of A Forest: Why We Should Care"
Posted: 2012-01-08
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Woods Wisdom
"The public's attention has been so riveted on the spotted owl, old growth forests and other preservation-related issues that it no longer ses, much less understands, that the real question has nothing to do with owls or jobs. The real question is how will the nation's forest reserves be allocated. If the public decied it wanted to preserve all of its timberlands and never harvest again it could do that, but it ought to understand the social, economic and environmenal costs associated with such a decision."
The late Dr. James Bethel, Dean Emeritus, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Evergreen, Evergreen, Summer, 1990
"We must always consider the environment and people together, as though they are one, because the
human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."
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human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."