Keep Our Forests Green!
Rob DeHarpport makes the case for a clear, honest national campaign showing Americans what catastrophic wildfire is costing our forests,
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Federal Land Ownership and Data
Federal Land Ownership and Data A revealing 2020 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Four federal agencies oversee 606.
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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
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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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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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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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Black Hills Green
BLACK HILLS GREEN Jim Petersen An Evergreen Magazine follow-up report on Case No. 1 - 25 years later. Read more:
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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
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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.