Monthly Archives: January 2019

Rachel Lee Hall: Forests Under Stress

Rachel Lee Hall contributed the following to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. Check out her Forests Under Stress web site here.  Forest Under Stress (FUS) contains research and observation gathered over forty years while living in Southern Oregon. All photos were taken in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest between 2017 and 2018. Why, each year, are…

Darr Moon: Fallen Giant

Darr Moon contributed the following column to Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities. My uncle was an engineer for the Forest Service, he helped design and build the Yankee Fork road we used to access our summer gold camp. He was a proud employee of an organization that was regaled as America’s keeper of the Forests. Throughout…

Federal Agencies Need Resources, Not More Land, to Reduce Fire Risks

By Nick Smith The following column originally appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune Everyone has an opinion on how best to respond to the trend of catastrophic wildfires and smoke. In his Mail Tribune guest column, Derek Volkart floats the unusual idea of having American taxpayers purchase local private timberlands so federal agencies can manage…