Forestry

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Forestry

Government’s current forestry management policies for public lands are to remove people from the forests, prevent economic use of the timber (even of dead, fallen, or burned trees), and leave the forests totally unmanaged. Burned forests are not replenished with new plantings. The end result of these policies will be the destruction of America’s forests, timber industry, jobs, property, homes, and lives. It is, in fact, a scorched-earth policy. It is but one facet of the assault on Rural America.

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Tom The Forest Guy

This short video shows the stark differences between two forest management policies on the same forest after a forest fire. Dr. Tom Bonnickensen stands chest-deep on the government-managed land. There is no forest remaining, only a high-flammable brush field. A hundred yards away, the privately-managed land is shown to have healthy, young trees restoring the forest.

Logging in the 21st Century

This excellent video was produced by R&R Conner, Inc., one of the companies featured on reality TV. The video employs aerial and ground video to show side-by-side comparisons of privately and publicly managed forests. The contrast is dramatic. The video also explains government’s job- and industry-destroying policy of forbidding any commercial use of public lands, even when such use would be highly beneficial to the forests. Finally, the video explains the emergence of new, conservation-based forest harvesting plans, including the use of helicopters.

This Is My Office

This video is designed for the children, to show them that forestry is an enjoyable, worthwhile, and outdoor career that performs a beneficial purpose.

Closing Off Our Forests

Danielle Lindler
Danielle is a Registered Professional Forester, trained in forest soils, pest control, forest ecology, hydrology, dendrology, silviculture, water quality, wildlife, fire ecology, and environmental law. She is well versed on what is happening.
•Sep 8, 2011 on Radio Liberty
•Forest management
•The proposed Siskiyou Crest Monument
•website: Forests For The Next Century

Dr. Thomas Bonnicksen
Dr. Bonnicksen has a B.S. in forestry, an M.S. in forest ecology, and a Ph.D. in natural resource and environmental policy. He is Professor Emeritus of Forest Science and a former Department Head at Texas A&M University, Research Scholar in Resident at California Polytechnic State University, and served for seven years as Visiting Scholar and Board Member of the California-based Forest Foundation. And those are only the start of his credentials. He loves forests and has a vision for what healthy forests should look like that is in start contrast to current government practices.
•Conversation with Kirk MacKenzie: Proper forest management vs. government’s destructive approach.
•Protecting Communities and Saving Forests, by Dr. Thomas Bonnicksen.
•Death of a Forest, Why We Should Care, by Dr. Thomas Bonnicksen.
•website: Bonnicksen & Associates

Jim Petersen
Jim has been writing and broadcasting about forestry for 30 years, and is the founder of Evergreen Foundation, a non-profit organization. His objective is healthy, renewable, sustainable, and enjoyable forests, and believes these can be achieved with science, not politics.
•Conversation with Kirk MacKenzie ― the state of our public forests today.
•Forest management
•website: Evergreen

Ray Haupt
Ray is a retired US Forest Service District Ranger with 33 years of service. He is also a registered professional forester and teaches two days a week. As a former Ranger, Ray offers rare insights into the problems and meaningful inputs as to what we can do.
•Conversation with Kirk MacKenzie ― forest densification and causes thereof, regulatory agencies, administrative law and lawsuits.
•Conversation with Kirk MacKenzie ― Equal Access to Justice Act.
•email: Ray Haupt