Forest Service: your “greatest good” goal right now should be to protect our older forests
By Jim Furnish and René Voss, The Missoulian In the early 20th century, Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service wrote what is now considered the agency’s mission statement: Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, prioritize “the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.” This approach laid the groundwork…
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Plantation forests are water hogs…
…so why don’t they have to apply for water rights? Originally published in the Peninsula Daily News, 9/30/23 It’s well-known that forest clear-cuts adversely affect stream flows in multiple ways, such as by increasing surface temperatures, damaging water absorbing organisms and causing faster runoffs. Not so well known is that the more thickly planted plantation…
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