
Burning Ruth: The Questions of August
Editor’s Note: Evergreen colleagues and wildfire experts, Roger Jaegel and James Montgomery have cowritten a thoughtful and penetrating essay

“Our biggest challenge is wildfire”
Editor’s Note: Amanda Kaster is the Director of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation [DNRC]. She was

Chad Hanson to a white paging telephone please...
Huzzahs to the public relations genius who figured out that the most visually memorable way to showcase the herculean efforts

We Best Check Our Guns and Knives At The Door
Every major conservation group in our country – including the venerable Nature Conservancy - has endorsed the urgent need for the

God Almighty this is hard to watch
In a perfect world, we would be removing dying and dead trees before wildfire strikes, not leaving their bone-dry carcasses

The Worst Wildfire Season in a Century
The western United States is on the leading edge of the worst wildfire season in a century. Worst in acres

The Dinosaurs of the Elliott State Forest
Editor’s Note: McKenzie Peters has been working with Bob Zybach on his Oregon Watersheds and Websites project since 2012.

Lincoln County, MT - Counties On Fire Report
This publication addresses the growing wildfire risk within the county land base and shares efforts by a diverse group of

The Next Chief
Vicki Christiansen’s decision to retire this summer has me thinking about the qualities – and qualifications – the Biden Administration should

Counties On Fire: Lincoln County: Resources
Lincoln County Community Wildfire Prevention Plan (CWPP)Download the Lincoln County CWPP (PDF, 2.2MB) Lincoln County Community Wildfire Prevention

America's Massive Forest Management Crisis
Evergreen’s relationship with the National Association of Forest Service Retirees dates from the years when the late John Marker,

Biden Wildfire Scorecard No. 3
With President Biden’s climate change agenda on a collision course with the West’s wildfire pandemic, I can only