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 Dirty Hands People - This Timberjack bundler is collecting and baling very small trees on a Forest Service biomass thinning project near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Timberjack, now owned by John Deere, pioneered this technology in Sweden, where biomass-fired powerplants are very common. Yet despite their impressive capabilities, these machines have had trouble breaking in to the U.S. market, in large part because they are very expensive [about $600,000] but also because most of the work they should be doing is on federal lands where very little harvesting of any kind is done today. Loggers have rightly refused to buy in these machines because the federal government cannot assure them of sufficient work to make the costly investment advisable.](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-54lwPgAbr5o/SckEdFi949I/AAAAAAAAAx0/GJAeLO3IDJ8/s640/09260014.JPG "The Dirty Hands People - This Timberjack bundler is collecting and baling very small trees on a Forest Service biomass thinning project near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Timberjack, now owned by John Deere, pioneered this technology in Sweden, where biomass-fired powerplants are very common. Yet despite their impressive capabilities, these machines have had trouble breaking in to the U.S. market, in large part because they are very expensive [about $600,000] but also because most of the work they should be doing is on federal lands where very little harvesting of any kind is done today. Loggers have rightly refused to buy in these machines because the federal government cannot assure them of sufficient work to make the costly investment advisable.")
This Timberjack bundler is collecting and baling very small trees on a Forest Service biomass thinning project near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Timberjack, now owned by John Deere, pioneered this technology in Sweden, where biomass-fired powerplants are very common. Yet despite their impressive capabilities, these machines have had trouble breaking in to the U.S. market, in large part because they are very expensive [about $600,000] but also because most of the work they should be doing is on federal lands where very little harvesting of any kind is done today. Loggers have rightly refused to buy in these machines because the federal government cannot assure them of sufficient work to make the costly investment advisable.
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