Forest Service
The most ecologically rational and fiscally prudent course is to eschew thinning before reintroducing fire into fire-dependent forests.
Read MoreThe reduction of surplus production capacity continues to result in lumber mill shutdowns, though the contributing factors cited have changed as times have changed.
Read MoreIf 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 MoreThe prospective defeminization/emasculation of the Northwest Forest Plan by the Forest Service is likely inevitable. All the more reason for the Biden administration to promulgate an enduring administrative rule that conserves and restores mature and old-growth forests.
Read MoreThe world’s largest ecosystem management plan is under existential threat.
Read MoreMost Americans get their drinking, bathing, and flushing water from surface sources, most of which are unprotected from logging and other exploitation.
Read MoreThe future of the voluntary federal land grazing permit retirement option.
Read MoreThe option to voluntarily retire federal grazing permits is progressing, albeit in fits and starts.
Read MoreThe Forest Service has announced it is going to be proposing new regulations to address the “climate resilience” of the National Forest System.
Read MoreAny inventory reveals that most of the nation’s mature and old-growth forests have fallen to the saw. Not only must all that remains remain, but degraded forests should also be allowed to become mature and old-growth forests once again.
Read MoreThis Part 3 suggests ways to partially—but significantly—bring back the magnificent old-growth forests that have long been lost.
Read MoreAs public lands conservationists continue their fight to save the last of the mature and old-growth forests for the benefit of this and future generations, we must not forget the preforests.
Read MoreUnderstanding the history of public lands is useful if one is to be the best advocate for the conservation of public lands.
Read MoreBlumenauer’s bill would open up Mount Hood National Forest to new logging loopholes.
Read MorePresident Biden is poised to enter the pantheon of forest-protecting American presidents.
Read MoreThe president could use authority granted long ago by Congress to significantly elevate the conservation status of large areas within the National Forest System.
Read MoreTop Line: Oregon’s senior senator is poised to leave a legacy of national recreation areas. Just how many and how good that legacy will be is up to him.
Read MoreTwo national monuments in Utah have been restored, but it isn’t over.
Read MoreDomestic livestock grazing could end on the federal public lands (with great benefit to federal taxpayers and incalculable benefits to nature) with no affect on the nation’s beef, lamb, and wool supply.
Read MoreFigure 1. Graffiti by me. I’m not going there yet but may have to. Source: Forest Stewardship Council-US.
So far, I have happily recommended FSC-certified tree flesh to those who have asked (and commended to those who haven’t). However, if any federal forest lands are certified by the FSC, I will no longer be able to recommend FSC-certified wood as I cannot be assured that the FSC label means the wood product didn’t come from the logging of older (mature and old-growth) forests on federal public forest lands.
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