Winter 2000

Should We Let Diseased National Forests Die and Burn?, Is Restoration Forestry A Better Idea Than Zero Cut?

Should Logging Be Outlawed

A coalition of the nation's most powerful environmental organizations has asked Congress to approve legislation that would outlaw logging in National Forests.

Why the Wests Forests are Burning Up

Blow Up

Next to a nuclear explosion, there is no more lethal killing force on earth than a big forest fire. The most violent are called "blowups" because they are capable of exploding.

What if we do nothing?

The claim that ailing western forests can heal themselves if they are left alone seems based on a belief that pre-European forests and prairies were naturally functioning ecosystems uninfluenced by humans.

The National Forest System: Then And Now

Listening to the National Forest harvest debate from the sidelines, one might easily conclude not much has changed in the Forest Service over the last 25 years, but the agency and its mission are both very different than they were-even ten years ago.

Restoring the West's National Forests:

Since its inception in the aftermath of the Great 1910 Fire, the nation's forest fire-fighting policy has been closely tied to a conservation ethic of near biblical proportion: waste not, want not.

Lessons in Nature

The difference between "Zero Cut" and "Forest Restoration" is perhaps best illustrated in terms of nature's three most intractable lessons: It is not possible to save or preserve a forest. The only constant in nature is change.

Toward A Global Enviromental Ethic

If we stop managing National Forests, they will decline and die, just as they've done at least 16 times since the last Ice Age.

Restoring the West's National Forests: Part 2

In northern Arizona, along the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service is considering the unthinkable: logging in a National Park.

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"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."