Results for keyword: Logging
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In praise of ancient tree stumps
Snoqualmie, Wash., is scattered with giant stumps that tell the area's history -- except in a brand-new development, where such signs of "real" Western life have been removed.
by Becca Hall, Jul 22, 2012 -
How I learned to love logging
The writer takes an ironic look at the Thunderbolt timber sale in Idaho, and at Boise Cascade's conviction that only logging can save the endangered chinook salmon.
by Erik Ryberg, Oct 06, 2010 -
Fire and ancient forests belong together
Matthew Koehler says that fire and old-growth forests are longtime allies, not natural foes.
by Matthew Koehler, Jan 15, 2009 -
While you were voting …
While the nation is distracted by the election, the Bush administration races ahead with environmental policy changes.
by Sarah Gilman , Nov 04, 2008 -
Left in the lurch
The recent expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act has left western Oregon counties without funds.
by Andrea Appleton, Jul 31, 2008 -
Weathering the academic storm
Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked
by Erin Halcomb, May 28, 2007 -
Of salvage logging and salvation
If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be measured in board-feet alone
by Pepper Trail, Dec 25, 2006 -
Christmas fuels the 'bough industry' in Washington
The writer tells how Christmas has fueled a "bough industry" in the forest
by Lissa James, Dec 18, 2006 -
Of salvage logging and salvation
The writer finds salvage logging to be anything but salvation for a forest
by Pepper Trail, Dec 04, 2006 -
Biomass: What to do with all that wood
Mark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican forests
by Peter Friederici, Oct 30, 2006
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