Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat, and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign Kathie Durbin. Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers Books, 1996. 303 pages, illus.; foreword by Charles Wilkinson. $24.95 hardcover. In 1993, Northwest environmentalists were fractured over President Clinton’s Northwest forest plan. While the plan seemed to save millions of acres of old-growth forests, Clinton wanted […]
Randal O'toole
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Upstarts today are establishment soon
Dear HCN, Rifts like the one in the Northwest environmental community described in Kathie Durbin’s article (HCN, 12/27/93) are often portrayed as moral questions: hardliners vs. sellouts or realists vs. idealists. In fact, these splits are perfectly predictable given the rules of the political game. Organizations such as the Sierra Club and Wilderness Society work […]
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Environmentalists shouldn’t have helped force out Dale Robertson
Opinion writer says that former Forest Chief Dale Robertson shouldn’t have been replaced by Jack Ward Thomas. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Environmentalists shouldn’t have helped force out Dale Robertson.
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Let’s stop dirt-bike noise and ‘the-end-is-here’ noise
“Wise-users” may not have much influence, but they should give environmentalists pause to reconsider their long-run strategies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 19, 1990: 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone ...'
An ancient-forest primer
Timber jobs in the Northwest began to disappear long before the spotted owl became an issue. A forest economist explains the basics of the ancient forest controversy and why the economic challenge to the region extends far beyond direct job losses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
What do environmentalists really want?
After working as a professional environmentalist for over ten years, I have come to the conclusion that environmentalists don’t know what they want. They certainly know what they don’t want, but what they think they want instead often turns out to be worse than what they’ve got. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E