The wildfire historian Stephen Pyne calls Arizona’s Wallow Fire a “monster.” “Burning along the trajectory that every major fire in the region has followed, it will burn until the rains come,”he predicts. In 2002, the 500,000-acre Biscuit Fire in Oregon was a similar monster. Burning largely in the wild, it torched thinned and unthinned timber, […]
Roy Keene
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Raping the private forests
Profitable export markets and a cut-and-run mentality are leveling the Northwest’s vast privately owned forests. This assault on the sustained-yield principle will drastically worsen an already critical future log shortage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E