Logging proponents fail to acknowledge that climate is the ultimate arbitrator of wildfires. That is why the coastal forests of Oregon and...
One continuously hears from the timber industry and its allies that the present occurrence of large wildfires is primarily the result of 100 years...
A researcher in California is collecting seeds of sugar pine that appear to have resistant to bark beetles. Her goal is to capture and propagate...
Dead. Most of us have negative associations with the word. After all how did Death Valley get its name? Not because it was a favorite vacation spot...
Wildlife Services is a secretive taxpayer-supported federal agency whose prime purpose is to kill wildlife. Wildlife Services uses a host of cruel...
“What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope?” wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers.Jeffers encapsulated the idea...
Recently in an interview about the 2018 Farm Bill, US Sen Steve Daines advocated more ‘active’ management of our national forests. ‘Active’...
Logging, conducted ostensibly to ‘thin the forest’, ‘reduce fuels’ or for so-called ‘restoration’, causes a net loss of carbon from...
There is a huge difference between the Industrial Forestry worldview and an ecological perspective. Many people assume that foresters understand...
The recent fires in California offer lessons that every westerner should pay attention to. First forest reduction projects will not preclude large...
Most environmental/ conservation groups are Climate Change deniers. Specifically, I am talking about the...