Daily Archives: September 11, 2017

64th North Star Expo Returns to Grand Rapids, Minnesota

Minnesota’s biggest logging equipment show is returning to Itasca County! The 64th Annual North Star Expo opens Friday September 15th at the Itasca County Fairgrounds in Grand Rapids.  Admission to the two-day event is free.  The Expo features more than 100 exhibitors, including over $15 million in the latest logging, trucking, and sawmill equipment and…

Facing another catastrophic wildfire season, Congress must act

Our oped originally appeared in The Hill: As Congress returns from its August recess, it’s time for the federal government to turn its attention to reforming forest management policies. Catastrophic wildfires are affecting millions of Americans living near our dying national forests, where wildfires are resulting in tragic losses, threatening communities and polluting our air…

Management of Forests, Wild Horses & Intellectual Dishonesty

Capt. William E. Simpson asked us to publish the following response to Laura Kay Snell’s article on issue of wild horse grazing wildfire. When we consider all the data about wildfire and megafire, it’s clear there is a growing trend of increasing catastrophic deforestation via wildfire. And these new-breed of extraordinarily hot wildfires are without…