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Tie-Hacking in the Sierra Madre: Investigations of a Historic Logging Landscape
This post is a shout-out to sometimes under-appreciated Forest Service folks and contractors- the archaeologists. Also please consider volunteering for the Passport in Time program. The website has a...
View ArticleRead the Multiple-Use Act
It’s worthwhile to re-read the law every once in awhile. This time, because of some recent discussions here, a couple of things stood out. Here’s the definition of multiple-use: ‘‘Multiple use’’...
View ArticleHistory of logging in Montana
The Missoulian is running a series of articles on this subject. The one in Sunday’s paper asks these questions about the future: “Banishment from the national forests would doom many Montana timber...
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Extinction on the national forests
Larry Harrell asked recently (with a *smirk* no doubt) if any species have gone extinct on national forests. Here’s a report (published in 2004) from the Center for Biological Diversity that...
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Supreme Court may reinterpret tribal treaty rights on national forests
Here’s a pending Supreme Court case, Herrera v. Wyoming, that hasn’t shown up in the Forest Service litigation summaries. The federal government is defending the right of a Native American to hunt on...
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Oregon logging history map
Oregon Wild has compiled an interactive map of logged and thinned areas on public and private lands across the state of Oregon. If nothing else, it’s hard to look at this and accuse anyone wanting to...
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America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment
This comment by Retired Smokey Bear reminded me that at the recent Forest Service Retirees’ meeting in Asheville, we were fortunate to have a screening of this film. If you haven’t experienced this...
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Out with the new and in with the old
Here’s some well-known quotes from former Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth in 2003. He was trying to sell the idea that the agency was no longer timber-first. This was the “new” Forest Service;...
View ArticlePolitical Appointees, The Good and the Bad: Guest Post by Jim Furnish. II....
This is perhaps the first chance (in history) to synthesize a group history from the ways different people remember it. As such, this is an invitation for all of us to give our perspectives from that...
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Forest planning for “sustainable” recreation
A former Forest Service backcountry specialist talks about ecological integrity and increasing human recreation activities, and tries to answer the question of “what is sustainable recreation?” The...
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Tie-Hacking in the Sierra Madre: Investigations of a Historic Logging Landscape
This post is a shout-out to sometimes under-appreciated Forest Service folks and contractors- the archaeologists. Also please consider volunteering for the Passport in Time program. The website has a...
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Empathizing With Everyone: Patty Limerick and Violence in Western History
A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow battle in 1874, one of several clashes between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War. Image from TARL...
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Bob Zybach on Western Oregon Fire History
Map 1. This map shows the specific counties in western Oregon in which major forest fires have occurred during historical time. The three subregions of primary concern are the western Cascades; the...
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America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment
This comment by Retired Smokey Bear reminded me that at the recent Forest Service Retirees’ meeting in Asheville, we were fortunate to have a screening of this film. If you haven’t experienced this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Out with the new and in with the old
Here’s some well-known quotes from former Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth in 2003. He was trying to sell the idea that the agency was no longer timber-first. This was the “new” Forest Service;...
View ArticlePolitical Appointees, The Good and the Bad: Guest Post by Jim Furnish. II....
This is perhaps the first chance (in history) to synthesize a group history from the ways different people remember it. As such, this is an invitation for all of us to give our perspectives from that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Forest planning for “sustainable” recreation
A former Forest Service backcountry specialist talks about ecological integrity and increasing human recreation activities, and tries to answer the question of “what is sustainable recreation?” The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tie-Hacking in the Sierra Madre: Investigations of a Historic Logging Landscape
This post is a shout-out to sometimes under-appreciated Forest Service folks and contractors- the archaeologists. Also please consider volunteering for the Passport in Time program. The website has a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Empathizing With Everyone: Patty Limerick and Violence in Western History
A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow battle in 1874, one of several clashes between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War. Image from TARL...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bob Zybach on Western Oregon Fire History
Map 1. This map shows the specific counties in western Oregon in which major forest fires have occurred during historical time. The three subregions of primary concern are the western Cascades; the...
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