If I were Forest Service Chief...
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Chas Vincent: If there are no capital investments in wood processing, the years of hard work our collaborative’s have
“I am extremely frustrated. I am vice-chair of the Senate Finance Committee in Idaho and sit on the Transportation and
“Collaboration is a tool – just like a lot of other tools Congress has given the Forest Service to help it
“There are a lot of misperceptions about what collaboration is and what collaboratives do. But the biggest problems aren’t
“Certainty is a two-way street. We believe Idaho needs a wilderness bill for the same reasons that we need certainty
“I would respectfully disagree with critics who suggest that collaboration is Ouija board stuff. Between the U.S. Forest Service
“Historical conflict between timber production and wilderness protection is ebbing. Collaborations throughout our region are making progress in finding support
“I met with the members of the Idaho Panhandle Forest Collaborative for the first time in the summer of 2013.
Timber industry people who don’t trust forest collaboration believe that those of us who participate in collaboratives are sleeping
"The lesson in ‘Playing God’ is that there is no such thing as leaving nature alone. People are part
"There are great invisible leveling forces in society. When society decides that this or that group is being too
"The timber industry is going to have to learn to share these forests with others who have different values
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