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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

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.

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Shasta Trinity Citizens Wildfire Report

Editor's Note:

Last October, a northern California citizens group published a fascinating, if not disturbing, report concerning the history of wildfire suppression in the Big Bar Ranger District on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Across the West, many citizens are growing increasingly uncomfortable with what they perceive tbe a half-hearted forest fire suppression on the part of the federal government. For this reason - and many others - the northern California report makes for very interesting reading.

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