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
A logger ties down a bundle of choker cables moments before they were picked up by a Columbia Helicopter working on the White Mountain Apache Reservation following the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Fire. These cables are used to lift bundles of logs which the helicopters then fly to log landings where they are loaded on trucks - in this case for delivery to Union Pacific Railroad sidings in Globe and Snowflake.
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human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."