by Guest Author | Feb 25, 2024 | Sound Off
by Jim Furnish In my 34-year career at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency worked to support American industry while also maintaining public lands and the renewable resources they foster. That’s why I am shocked to learn that the agency plans to make a fundamental...
by Guest Author | Feb 19, 2024 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by John Clayton, Writers on the Range When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles from a trailhead. I’d seen grizzlies before—from the car. But this experience was on a whole other level. I felt...
by Andy Stahl | Nov 8, 2023 | Sound Off
The Forest Service has the kind of problem that most of us wish we suffered from. It has more money than it can spend. Thanks to exceedingly generous appropriations by Congress to fix the Wildfire Crisis (sic), the agency is awash in cash. So what could be the problem...
by Andy Stahl | Aug 14, 2023 | Fire Truth, Sound Off
In the 20th century, the Forest Service promised to build post-war America with logs cut from national forests. Logging would be sustainable, it promised, with no more timber removed in any decade than could be cut forever thereafter. Logging doubled in the 1940s,...
by Guest Author | Jun 12, 2023 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Dana Johnson, Writers on the Range We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want? That’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. They want to enter designated Wilderness in order to drill permanent anchors into...
