There is a huge difference between the Industrial Forestry worldview and an ecological perspective. Many people assume that foresters understand forest ecosystems, but what you learn in forestry school is how to produce wood fiber to sell to the wood products industry. I know because I attended a forestry school as an undergraduate in college.
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Continue Reading →Blaze is now 400,000 acres!
Looks like the already huge fire doubled in size in a day. This is in some of Arizona’s best mountain and wildlife country. Wallow Fire continues to grow
Blaze hits 389,000 acres; Eagar, Springerville lose power.
Our earlier […]
Continue Reading →Pay to play: Building in disaster-prone areas should cost more. Salt Lake Tribune Editorial.
The editorial above is about Utah, but it uses California as the bad example (Utah is just as bad except that the population is smaller).
California’s current budget disaster is compounded by the costs of fighting the many fires — […]
Continue Reading →In the view of Joan McCarter the problems of drought, lack of water for “traditional” uses and the fires have been aided and abetted by years of short-sighted political leadership in the West.
She doesn need to say it, but Idaho has got to be a prime example.
Fire, Water and Political Leadership in […]
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