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Sunday Op-ed and Editorial Roundup from the Interior West

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In today’s Sunday papers, The Denver Post and the Missoulian had three op-eds and an editorial of relevance to our usual topics. Ski Area Water Rights, 21st century conservation, private lands conservation and Tester’s bill. I lumped them together below and one separate in a separate post (restoration op-ed in the Missoulian), just to reduce … Read more

21st Century Problems- ” Loving It Without Loving it to Death”- Gallatin Crest

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We’ve heard this mantra in many places when the different recreationists seek to have land managed for their varying methods of recreation. It seems to me if place-based decisions worked out by locals are the best way to proceed- but I’d be interested in hearing other points of view. The comments are also interesting. In … Read more

Wuerthner on Rocky Mountain Front Range Heritage Act

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… Thanks to Matthew Koehler for this link and also for the above photo FYI: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/rocky_mountain_front_heritage_act_misses_on_weeds_and_wilderness/C41/L41/ Guest Column Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act Misses on Weeds and Wilderness A coalition claims it wants to protect Montana’s Rockies by supporting the proposed Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, but is it a wolf in sheep’s clothing? By … Read more

Another Confusing Roadless Story: Aspens, Intervention, and Upper Tier

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Thanks again to Terry Seyden for this catch! It’s a bit hard to tell in this news story, but the story is about a couple of different things that if you weren’t following this story closely, might be confusing. I will try to help. Chain saw environmentalism at cutting edge of forest fight Aspen, Colo. … Read more

Spagna on the Green Mountain Lookout: plus NTHP vs. WW

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from High Country News here. A fire lookout in a wilderness speaks of our past Essay – July 07, 2011 by Ana Maria Spagna If monster mansions in Jackson, Wyo., or Sun Valley, Idaho, can boast million-dollar views, what’s a historic cabin in Washington’s Glacier Peak Wilderness worth? From this cabin that used to be … Read more

Fire Bringing Communities Together

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Link here. CORVALLIS, Ore. – As homes and cities expand closer to forests and wildlands across the American West, increasing wildfire threats have created an unlikely new phenomena – confidence in government. Recent studies show that people in neighborhoods adjacent to public forest lands can and do trust natural resource managers to a surprising degree, … Read more

The End Of and Era– Wildlaw No More

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Ray Vaughn, sometime contributor to this blog, has announced (in the letter which follows) that his organization Wildlaw, will soon cease to exist.  After many successful suits against the Forest Service, Ray decided a few years ago that, as much fun as suing and winning might be, it might be more satisfying to work cooperatively … Read more

It’s Complicated: Forest Management’s Wicked Problems

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Most people view the problems of forest management from the narrow perspective of their own interests. They understand that there are “many great interests on the National Forests which sometimes conflict a little,” as Gifford Pinchot described the situation a century ago. While we must honor specific interests, the Forest Service’s charge under Organic Act … Read more