September 26, 2020 Retired Fire Chief: The end of logging is turning forests into tinderboxes Going back to Native Americans in America, controlled burning (later called Prescribed Fire) have saved the west from huge conflagrations. By burning large brush…
October 29, 2019 Will logging eastern forests help reverse downward trend in game populations? Good luck kicking up a bird on any national forest in the Mid-Atlantic these days. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s avid grouse hunter survey…
July 8, 2019 California’s 147 million dead trees a powder keg waiting to be lit “It’s just a matter of time,” says Amy Head, a Cal Fire battalion chief. “When it happens, we’re looking at dry standing fuel ready…
September 17, 2018 Trump’s Rural Revival …this turnaround was driven by mining and logging (which went from negative 11 percent job growth in 2016 to positive 7.4 percent in 2018),…
November 7, 2017 Grazing ‘at the top’ of Nebraska forest and range management “If we can follow the three-legged stool, we can open up all kinds of opportunities for managing the land,” Nickerson said. “Grazing is at…
October 25, 2017 Environmentalist-driven policies are destroying forests, agricultural lands “Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying,…
October 9, 2017 Nanny-state Forest Service has priorities all out of whack The lack of management that has caused the death and destruction of massive swaths of forestland is not entirely the Forest Service’s fault, of…
September 28, 2017 Western lawmakers draw attention to surging wildfire crisis “If we don’t work to thin our forests now, our nation will continue to suffer from the devastating effects of catastrophic wildfires including loss…
September 3, 2017 Obstructionist enviro lawsuits blamed for severe Montana wildfires “It is the lawyers who are funding for these extreme environmental groups, who are having a tremendous impact, (a) devastating impact on allowing us…
August 3, 2017 Forest Service doesn’t need more money, it needs professional foresters, common sense [paypal_donation_button] Early in the Obama Administration, for instance, the government suddenly had $1 trillion for “shovel-ready” projects, and pumped $1 billion into the Forest…
