1981 The U.S. Forest Service starts to consider the impact of intensive logging on the California spotted owl. 1984 The agency recognizes the California spotted owl as a “sensitive” species, vulnerable to extinction. 1991 Sacramento Bee reporter Tom Knudson writes a series on the forest-health crisis in the Sierra Nevada. “The Sierra in Peril” wins […]
Ann Brower
Posted inAugust 27, 2001: Restoring the range of light
Career bureaucrat blazes a new trail
By nature and by training, Brad Powell, regional forester for all of California, could never be called a “bunny-lover.” Yet the forest plan he signed on Jan. 12 has most environmentalists cheering. Activists were happy because the Sierra Nevada Framework is more concerned with critters such as owls than with timber volumes. It sets fires […]