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Agency must curtail ‘timber-itch’ By Jim Furnish | Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:15 am Aldo Leopold, the iconic American conservationist, spoke of once watching “a fierce green fire” dying in the eyes of a wolf he killed, noting “there was something new to me in those eyes.” The she-wolf was not just a varmint, … Read more
This one from the Huffington Post In its first sentence this article asserts that the point of the planning rule was to “take more control over the forests”; “hoping to break a legal logjam that has stymied logging”. I would assert that that we are doing just fine, thank you, with the natural process of … Read more
The recent ruling on the Southern California plans may well increase the weight of local governments at the table for forest planning, if Fred Kelly Grant’s logic here is correct. The Court found that the only element of the coordination process not followed by the Forest Service was a requirement that it discuss the California … Read more
I agree with Jack Ward Thomas when he talked about “walking around the field of battle bayoneting the wounded” in, I think, this still relevant testimony from 2000. There are also some other relevant observations from this testimony for this planning rule discussion. 21st century planning is obviously tied to NFMA, but a challenge is … Read more