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It's Time to Declare War on Wildfire Part 1
It might be the Christmas season, but you’d never know it from the volume of angry email we’re
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Black Hills Green - Case 1 Revisited
"Something marvelous has happened in the Black Hills National Forest that provides both an object lesson and a hopeful
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The Electoral Forest
We are again immersed in a lot of electoral commotion stemming from the fact that our states don’t have
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On Snowy Nights: By Jim Petersen
As we are once again in the holiday season. 2020 has left everyone a bit battered and disheartened. It seems
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Playing Politics with "Nature"
Today is Monday, November 2, 2020. All Souls Day. Traditionally a day to remember and honor those who have gone
Perspectives
The smell of sawdust, grease and sweat
This Spring – April 29 to be exact – I got an email note from Jim Hurst, an old Montana lumberman friend
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Spotted Owls Revisited: Science vs. Politics
Spotted Owls and the Spotty Sciences that Spawned Them: 5 Questions Bob Zybach wrote this article/editorial seven years ago
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Writing and pimping and your pal, Jim: Apologies to Norman Maclean
“Writing and pimping and your pal, Jim” paraphrases “Logging and pimping and your pal, Jim,” a chapter in Norman Maclean’
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A Unifying Message: First, Put Out the Fire!
The Trump and Biden presidential campaigns are now in full throat. The odds favor Mr. Biden, but they also favored
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MANAGED FIRE OR MISFIRE?
The whole notion of “fighting fire with fire” has been around for a long time. It has gained considerable traction
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What do you want from your forest?
Wesley Rickard, my late father-in-law, was a forestry legend. He was the old Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s first forest economist,
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Perdue, Forest Management, Wildfire, and Covid
I met Sonny Perdue last Thursday, June 11. We talked for about 10 minutes about the West’s wildfire pandemic.