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  • A New West thanksgiving column. Giving thanks for burned forests.

    Ralph Maughan

    Burns on private industrial forest lands versus multiple use national forest land- Giving Thanks for Burned Forests. By Matthew Koehler. Guest opinion in New West. If you want to see a real “moonscape,” check out burned over industrial forest lands that were already clearcut.

  • Bush's Forest Service losses a big case

    Ralph Maughan

    Wow! the legal kickback on the Bush Administration’s lack of attention to the laws is coming fast and furious. Two days ago, it was the big sage grouse case (which impacts way more than this beautiful upland game bird). Now is it his administration’s misnamed “Healthy Forests Initiative. Story. Associated Press. Appeals Court Blocks Bush…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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