Second in a series of articles on the Forest Service and the economics of the timber industry. BROCK Evans, vice president and chief lobbyist for the National Audubon Society, recently spoke at a University of Washington Environmental Management Seminar. In response to a question about reforming the Forest Service, he cataloged many destructive, wasteful and […]
Read More
First of a series of articles on the Forest Service and the economics of the timber industry. IN the fifth grade I started a conservation club for my school. To me, the U.S. Forest Service epitomized conservation and stewardship. Rangers maintained trails, practiced ecology, and found lost hikers while Smokey the Bear admonished us to […]
Read More
IS RANCHING on the federal range an environmentally destructive anachronism? Many environmentalists seem to think so. Less than 30,000 ranchers graze cattle on 350 million acres of federal lands, an area twice the size of Texas. Environmentalists hope the public lands will be, as the bumper sticker intones, “Cattle Free by ’93.” Grazing has also […]
Read More
KILLING WOLVES is a dramatic and highly controversial wildlife management practice. Alaska has recently proposed this as a way to boost caribou, moose, and deer populations for tourists and hunters. But many people find gunning wolves from airplanes offensive and are outraged. The logic underlying the killing seems clear, but the issues are complex. Wolves […]
Read More
This year is the centennial of the National Forest System. Its custodian, the U.S. Forest Service, manages 191 million acres of national forest and rangeland. That’s equal to Texas and Louisiana combined. When founded the Forest Service was intended to be a model of good government in the old progressive model of benevolent despotism—rule by […]
Read More
Pacific Research Institute, January, 1990, John A. Baden contributing author and editor (with Donald Leal).Available through Amazon Books.
Read More