Grand Canyon Fire Recovery
This is an interesting picture from the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The fire burned and killed off all the pines but, the underground mass of aspen roots and shoots survived. I wonder how...
View ArticleDry Sierra Winter
I recently drove over California’s Carson Pass and spent a day in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The weather was good, so I decided to save some money and camp out (!) for two nights (and spending $42 for a...
View ArticleThe Tahoe Basin
Lake Tahoe would probably be a National Park, by now, if the Comstock Lode had never been found. There was clearcutting right down to the lakshore, for mining timbers, in the silver mines. Incline...
View ArticleYosemite Visit
I recently spent three days in the Yosemite National Park area, shooting each day, in different locations. Yes, I did find a marvelous group of dispersed camping sites (free!) within the Rim Fire...
View ArticleUpdate From the Yosemite “Laboratory”
Here is a stitched-together panorama from the Foresta area of Yosemite National Park. I’ll have to pair it up with my historical version, one of these days. Restoration processes seem to be minimal, as...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day!
26 years after “protected” forests burned, in Yosemite National Park, this is what we now have. Chances are, it will burn again, before conifer trees can become established enough to resist the next...
View ArticleThe Rim Fire Salvage Seems Done
My last expedition included another trip to Yosemite, and the Rim Fire. I DO think that there are enough dead trees for the owls to “enjoy” in their respite from breeding. Then again, maybe this new...
View ArticleService Contract Re-visited
In my last adventure, I decided to pass through an area of the Tahoe National Forest, where I worked in 1996 and 1997. During that time, I worked on fire salvage, blowdown salvage, insect salvage and...
View ArticleRim Fire Images
The media does like to sensationalize events like the Rim Fire, often implying that the lands have been “destroyed”. The Rim Fire is so huge and burned across so many differing kinds of vegetation that...
View ArticleSleeping With the Enemy?
Timber industry people who don’t trust forest collaboration believe that those of us who participate in collaboratives are sleeping with the enemy. Environmentalists who would rather sue than...
View ArticleCareer Ladders for Temps?!?! Maybe Soon!
More interesting news for “disposable” employees! http://nffe.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/105694 NFFE-Backed Temporary Employment Reform Legislation Approved by Senate Committee There may come a...
View ArticleMassive Crater Lake Wilderness Area Fantasy
Oregon Wild has proposed a massive half million acre Wilderness Area, partly to “protect” Crater Lake. The Klamath County Commissioners are saying no, with fears that summer fires would affect public...
View ArticleHowdy, Folks
I’m just going to drop this here. A side by side comparison of the land that some serial litigators insist is clear evidence of Forest Service salvage clearcutting in the Rim Fire. The caption reads,...
View ArticleGiant Sequoia National Monument
With the general public becoming enraged about Giant Sequoia logging scenarios, here is a picture of some Bigtrees in what used to be the Sequoia National Forest. Chances are, the review will...
View ArticleWhat is Beyond the “Fog of War”?
There are scary and uncertain times ahead for our forests. There is just too much “Fog of War” going on for the public to sort out and fact-check for themselves. Even the ‘fact-checkers’ should be...
View ArticleNew Study About Forests Impacted by Extreme Mortality
http://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/bix146/4797261 Massive tree mortality has occurred rapidly in frequent-fire-adapted forests of the Sierra Nevada, California....
View ArticleSlanted News?
I found an LA Times article regarding the Rim Fire, as well as the future of forest management within the Sierra Nevada. Of course, Chad Hanson re-affirms his preference to end all logging,...
View ArticleA Picture is Worth at Least 1000 Words
“Natural Forest Regeneration”? (in the Eldorado National Forest.)
View ArticleSierra Nevada Logging Examples
Back in 2012, I worked my last season with the Forest Service, on the Amador Ranger District of the Eldorado National Forest. In particular, I led the crew in marking the cut trees in this overcrowded...
View ArticleHowdy, Folks
I’m just going to drop this here. A side by side comparison of the land that some serial litigators insist is clear evidence of Forest Service salvage clearcutting in the Rim Fire. The caption reads,...
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