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"
Evergreen colleague, Mike Dubrasich, who runs the Western Institute for Study of the Environment, has shared a provocative research paper with us that accuses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] of manipulating global temperature records to make it appear that 20th Century temperatures rose faster than they actually did. Click below to read a blockbuster report by Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts of the Science and Public Policy Institute. If this report proves accurate, the global warming/climate change scare is just that - a scare with no science behind it.
Surface Temperature Records 
human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."