Forest

6/6/14 – Timber Harvesting and Wildfire in the National Forests: The Emergence of Multiple-Use Management

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a series of blogs by SHRA Environmental Analyst/Researcher Naomi Heindel on the history of the United States Forest Service. You can read the first two installments here and here. In my previous blog, the second in this series on the history of the Forest Service, I discussed the… Read the Rest »

3/7/14 – Competing Interests: Grazing, Timber, and the U. S. Forest Service

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a series of blogs by SHRA Research Associate Naomi Heindel on the history of the United States Forest Service. This installment focuses on the tensions, those of a century ago and those of today, between the Forest Service and western grazing and timber interests. As I wrote… Read the Rest »

12/13/13 – The U.S. Forest Service: Setting the Scene

Editor’s Note:   Today’s blog post is by SHRA Research Associate Naomi Heindel.   What is the greatest good? Who makes up the greatest number, and who is often left out? How long is the long run? The United States Forest Service has struggled with these and similar questions for decades, as it has attempted to satisfy… Read the Rest »

8/10/12: Remembering the Great Fires of 1910

As Idaho, Colorado, and other western states suffer through another season of wildfires that claim lives and homes and pollute the summer air, we remember our region’s long history of forest fires and the evolution of the U. S. Forest Service’s approach to them over the past 100 years. Author and journalist Timothy Egan has… Read the Rest »

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