Like bankruptcy, the death of the Northwest Forest Plan has proceeded slowly and might end quickly.
Read MoreThe Demise of Northwest Forest Plan
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Rethinking Commercial Thinning as a “Tool” to Ecologically Restore Frequent-Fire Forest Types (Part 2): Burn, Baby, Burn
The most ecologically rational and fiscally prudent course is to eschew thinning before reintroducing fire into fire-dependent forests.
Read MoreThe Forest Service Proposal to Save Its Old Growth: A Start, Though Inadequate
If President Biden wants to be remembered in history for saving the nation’s remaining mature and old-growth forests and trees for the benefit of this and future generations, the Forest Service is going to have to do significantly more than what it has proposed so far.
Read MoreBiden’s Executive Order on Forests, Part 1: A Great Opportunity
President Biden is poised to enter the pantheon of forest-protecting American presidents.
Read MoreAmending the Eastside Screens, Part 3: Reignition of the Eastside Forest War or Slight Midcourse Correction?
Part 3 suggests what the Forest Service could do to improve the Eastside Screens, in both the short and long term.
Read MoreReigniting the Pacific Northwest Timber Wars by Logging More Old Growth: Bring It On, President Trump!
At 61 and with acrophobia, I’m no use in climbing old trees to defend them from the chainsaw. But a younger generation of activists will sit, en masse, in those threatened old-growth trees, in front of bulldozers, and/or in appropriate offices. And if it comes to that, I’m happy to get arrested in offices of the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Republican Party, the timber industry, or elected officials.
Bring it on, President Trump. Bring it on, Big Timber. Bring it on, Rep. Walden. Go ahead, make my day: reignite the Pacific Northwest timber wars.
Let the battle be joined, as nothing less is at stake than the lands and forests we leave to future generations.
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