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
Twenty-one-year-old Dennis Walter pauses beside a skidder he was operating for a logging company in Maine in the summer of 1998. Mr. Walter said he hoped to make logging his life's work. But the Northeast's pulp and paper industry now faces the worst market conditions in anyone's memory. Hundreds of loggers have lost their jobs or parked their equipment in hopes of better days.
"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."