George Sibley

The small-mill local-market industry has proliferated during this century, in the wake of the tree-mining industry that logged-out the old-growth and moved on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The author recounts his time at a sawmill at Crystal Creek, Colo., a juncture of two worlds: between logs and boards, between trees and what becomes of them. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]

As forest plans are applied to the National Forests over the next fifty years, how are the forests going to look? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Are Forest Service inventories today any more accurate, even-handed and comprehensive than they were a decade ago? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Louisiana-Pacific will soon have two aspen flakeboard plants on line in western Colorado, raising questions about “multiple use” forest management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

I don’t think there is a “foreseeable future” for the Rockies. I’m not sure there is even a viable, likely future everyone would work toward or against. A lot of Rocky Mountain futurism resembles that branch of Christianity better at imagining hell than heaven. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E