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The Art and Promise of Adaptive Governance
Adaptive Governance is art and science, blended with management and politics. It is art since political decision-making is an art. One face of adaptive governance is a dance wherein public land...
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It’s Complicated: Forest Management’s Wicked Problems
Most people view the problems of forest management from the narrow perspective of their own interests. They understand that there are “many great interests on the National Forests which sometimes...
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Three Pathways to Adaptive Governance
Adaptive governance—an adaptive management approach to public lands management—is well underway, and will replace planning, the Forest Service’s chosen management strategy for the 20th century. This...
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How to do Assessments Under the Proposed Forest Service Planning Rule – Part 1
Lynx and coyote tracks, Superior National Forest, Minnesota, photo by Larry Weber An assessment is the gathering and integrating of information relevant to the planning area from many sources and the...
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How to do Assessments Under the Proposed Forest Service Planning Rule – Part...
In an earlier post I offered some ideas for doing an assessment under the proposed Forest Service planning rule. The essential purpose of the assessment would be to review assessment questions...
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How to do Assessments Under the Proposed Forest Service Planning Rule – Part...
Mendocino National Forest, Bear Creek Campground, photo by Tiffany Flanagan What is the future of our National Forests? How do we fulfill NFMA’s challenge to plan for sustained yield of products and...
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How to do Assessments Under the Proposed Forest Service Planning Rule – Part...
Gunnison National Forest, Colorado This is the last in a series of posts about assessments for Forest/Grassland plan revisions under the proposed Forest Service planning rule. The posts are a summary...
View ArticleDarn Obstructionists: Timber Industry, et al Planning Rule Lawsuit Filed
Here’s a copy of the lawsuit filed yesterday by an assortment of timber industry, off-road/ATV and grazing interests against the new NFMA planning rules.
View ArticleConservationists Fight Timber Industry’s NFMA Lawsuit Seeking To Limit Role...
The Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Oregon Wild, filed a motion today in federal district Court in Washington D.C. to fight a lawsuit that aims to...
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Point/Counter-Point: Nez Perce-Clearwater NF Forest Planning Process
Looking into the Mallard-Larkins Roadless Area on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. Photo by Brett Haverstick. Recently, the discussion of collaboration and forest planning – at least on...
View ArticleCreating the Next Generation of National Forest Plans
I was going to call it “A New Century of Forest Planning,” but it looked like that was taken. For those of you who were attracted to this blog by its original title, you may find this article useful....
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