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
"It is time for science to produce some defensible, reproducible experiments. It is imperative that we verify or otherwise correct land policy decisions made on the basis of theories. The consequences of error - social, economic and environmental - are simply too great to rest on conjecture. From these experiments, I believe we will find forests are far more resilient than has been assumed. We will also learn that species adapt more readily to hanging habitat conditions than has been theorized. There is abundant evidence of these facts in the Northeast and Great Lakes States, where harvesting began long before it did here in the Pacific Northwest."
Dr. Robert Buckman, Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University College of Forestry, former Director of Research, U.S. Forest Service and past president, International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Evergreen, June, 1995
"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."