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…
November 29, 2018 WWF plan to save species requires destruction of western capitalism This year’s diatribe claims almost 60 percent of all the fish, birds, and animals on the Earth have been killed by people in two…
September 2, 2017 Beyond Wildfires: Why the Forest Service needs serious reforms We need a plan to address the landscape when a fire comes, before the fire burns. This way there is no confusion on where or how…
July 11, 2017 ESA activists dispute science showing healthy numbers of black-backed woodpecker A master’s thesis presented in May by Elizabeth Matseur of the University of Columbia-Missouri estimated a population of 2,920 black-backed woodpeckers in the Black Hills in…
June 2, 2017 Ag Secretary directs Forest Service to coordinate with local governments, private entities Third, the Forest Service must engage at the local level on every issue. Everyone must have a voice in the decision-making. At the end…
March 16, 2017 If you want to protect forests, you must harvest trees You want to save a forest? Buy wood products and plant trees. Those are ways to ensure that overgrown forests are properly managed and…
February 21, 2017 Obama Antiquities Act abuses challenged by Oregon lumber companies “The monument expansion is already having an immediate impact,” said Murphy Co. President John Murphy. “The Griffen Moon Timber Sale within the expansion area…
February 17, 2017 Oregon lawmakers step up to consider state authority over lands Wilson and other rural Republicans pointed out that their districts are overwhelmingly composed of federal land. They said cutbacks in logging due to overregulation had limited…
February 17, 2017 With timber communities at risk, Oregon counties fight Cascade-Siskiyou expansion The association sued President Donald Trump, the United States, Acting Secretary of the Interior Kevin Haugrud and the Bureau of Land Management. It asks…
November 25, 2016 Judge caves to Montana enviro group, halts logging operation The trees have gotten so dense that they are crowding out other plant life as well as creating the potential for an explosive crown…
