Christmas on the Farm
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Counties On Fire
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
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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
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Biden Wildfire Scorecard No. 2
Now that Tom Vilsack is back in the driver’s seat at the Department of Agriculture, it’s time for
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Tom Vilsack to a White Paging Telephone Please
Tom Vilsack is back at his old desk in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Vilsack, 70, won easy confirmation
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Carl Stoltenberg is rolling over in his grave: Part 3
Carl Stoltenberg was retired and nearly blind by the time Bob Zybach finished his Master’s thesis and he died
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Carl Stoltenberg is rolling over in his grave: Part 2
Bob Zybach was still running reforestation crews in 1988, but Northern Spotted Owl jitters and a housing starts were the
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Carl Stoltenberg is Rolling Over in His Grave: Part 1
I got a telephone call one morning in April 1987 that was to change my professional life. The caller was
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The Story of “Our Daily Wood”
The Biden Administration’s ambitious climate change initiative and its parallel commitment to creating “green jobs” provide a timely and
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How big is a ton of C02?
I recently stumbled across a fascinating essay on the Environmental Defense Fund website. It asks and visually answers a great
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Front and Center: Biden Wildfire Scorecard No. 1
The Biden Administration lost no time implementing the big pieces of its promised climate change initiative. It’s much too
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Front and Center: Triage Forestry
In a recent three-part essay – posted January 4, 6 and 8 on our website - I said I thought it
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Front and Center: Nature doesn't give a damn which political party you claim
This is the first in a series of weekly blogs by our founder Jim Petersen. Up Front is an editorial