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.
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.
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"
Forestry education has been the non-profit Evergreen Foundation's sole mission since 1986. Of particular concern to us has been the gusher of biased environmental information children receive from very early ages. PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana, recently completed a very comprehensive report that so impressed us that we asked permission to post the entire series on our website. Click the links below to read PERC's environmental education assessment.
Inside the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of PERC Reports:
From the Editor, by Laura E Huggins
FEATURES
Environmental Education: The Science of Fear
Teaching kids how to think, not what to think
By Holly Fretwell
Finding Our Way Out — Restoring Our Vital Link to Nature
Whatever happened to “go play outside”
By Whitney Tilt
Exploring Nature in Cyberspace
Mother Nature finds friend in technology
By Carol Ferrie
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Made Better?
Market mechanisms breathe life into national parks
By Brian Yablonski
Nature’s Lost Children
Individuals fight “nature deficit disorder”
By Kimberley K. Yablonski
COLUMNS
And then what?
By Terry L. Anderson
Tangents
The value of environmental amenities
By Daniel K. Benjamin
PERSPECTIVES
Impressions
Scary green monsters
By Meghan Cox Gurdon
Greener Pastures
The beauty of parking, islands by design, and golf course makeover
By Linda E. Platts
On the Lookout
A chance to close the judicial takings loophole
By Reed Watson
human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."