by Andy Stahl | May 20, 2023 | Fire Truth, Sound Off
With “water, water, everywhere,” the Forest Service still cannot rid itself of the fire retardant albatross around its neck. Ten years ago, in a study commissioned by the Forest Service, the Rand Corporation published Air Attack Against Wildfires: Understanding U.S....
by Guest Author | Apr 25, 2023 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Erica Rosenberg, Writers On The Range In 2017, the public lost 1,470 acres of wilderness-quality land at the base of Mount Sopris near Aspen, Colorado. For decades, people had hiked and hunted on the Sopris land, yet the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) handed it...
by Andy Stahl | Feb 18, 2023 | Fire Truth, Sound Off
Half a century of logging high-value timber on public lands created an industry of federally dependent sawmills throughout the Western states. Concurrently, the Forest Service did its darnedest to stamp out forest fires. That was pretty easy during the mid-20th...
by Andy Stahl | Dec 23, 2022 | Sound Off
“If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” — Elizabeth Warren It is no coincidence that the rise of collaborative groups described in Christopher Ketcham’s guest essay followed the demise of the Forest Service’s logging-at-all-costs era....
by Andy Stahl | Jun 6, 2022 | Sound Off
The Forest Service is supplementing its aerial fire retardant environmental impact statement that FSEEE’s lawsuits forced to be written in 2011. Those cases imposed no-drop zones around water and rare plant critical habitat. Fire retardant is the red slurry dumped...
