Commentary Updates
Comments Requested on Draft Cohesive Strategy
Wildfire Benefits or Damages?
OFRI: Numbskulls On Parade
“Sustainability” Is an Unsustainable Marxist Hoax
Climate Change Foils Fire Nazis
Corridor to Hell
Enviro Nazi Jihad Continues in Montana
First Reports on Fire Blow-ups
Big Whoosh
Some Let It Burn Questions Answered
Criminal Incineration of the Rogue River-Siskiyou NF
A Response to Governor Otter’s Letter to Sec Salazar
Nutty Grizzy Decision Appealed
Lolo Wolf Reductions
RMEF Calls on Congress to Reform Endangered Species Act
Molloy Relists Wolves
Federal Wolf Control in Idaho Proposed
Who Is Stupid?
Truth Coming to Light Re Grizzly Bear Fatal Attack
Attention All States: Prepare to be Sued Over Wolves
Has The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Become A Rogue Agency?
Deadly Bear Journalism
Deadly Government Bears
Record Sockeye Run in B.C.
Sockeye salmon run sets record for Columbia River
Record Salmon Return Explained
Summer Salmon Report July 25th
Another Bubbleheaded Salmon Lawsuit
Spring Chinook Report June 2nd
Spring Chinook Report April 30th
Recent Titles
Predator-Mediated Competition: What happens when there is a second, alternative prey in a system? by Charles E. Kay in Wildlife Sciences
The Market Illiteracy Embodied in the Politically Correct Version of Sustainability by Travis Cork III in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 30 June 2010
The Ozette Prairies of Olympic National Park: Their Former Indigenous Uses and Management by M. Kat Anderson in History of Western Landscapes
The 1910 Fires A Century Later: Could They Happen Again? by Jerry Williams in Forest and Fires Sciences
Plain Facts: Tasmania under Aboriginal Management by Bill Gammage in History of Western Landscapes
Titles through 31 May 2010
Criminal Activities by Federal Bureaucrats And Others Involved in the Introduction, Protection and Spread of Wolves In the Lower 48 States by Jim Beers in Wildlife Sciences
Titles through 30 April 2010
Idaho Wildlife Services Wolf Activity Report 2009 by USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services in Wildlife Sciences
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 by Charles C. Mann and Rebecca Stefoff in History of Western Landscapes
Baden-Powell and Australian Bushfire Policy by Roger Underwood in Forest and Fire Sciences
Fuel treatments, fire suppression, and their interaction with wildfire and its impacts: the Warm Lake experience during the Cascade Complex of wildfires in central Idaho, 2007 by Russell T. Graham, Theresa B. Jain, and Mark Loseke in Forest and Fire Sciences
Climate Changes and their Effects on Northwest Forests by Ken Schlichte in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 31 March 2010
Where Have All the Fires Gone? by Stephen J. Pyne in History of Western Landscapes
Aboriginal Use of Fire: Are There Any “Natural” Plant Communities? by Gerald W. Williams in History of Western Landscapes
Lessons from a Transboundary Wolf, Elk, Moose and Caribou System by Mark Hebblewhite in Wildlife Sciences
The Art and Science of Counting Deer by Charles E. Kay in Wildlife Sciences
Genetic variation in the southern pines: evolution, migration, and adaptation following the Pleistocene by Ronald Schmidtling in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
Ecological Science as a Creation Story by Robert H. Nelson in Forest and Fire Sciences
Avoiding Carbon Myopia: Three Considerations for Policy Makers Concerning Manmade Carbon Dioxide by Willie Soon and David R. Legates in SOS Forests
Titles through 27 February 2010
Defining, Identifying, and Protecting Old-Growth Trees by Mike Dubrasich in Forest and Fire Sciences
The Benefits of Forest Restoration by Mike Dubrasich in Restoration Forestry
The Fictional Ecosystem and the Pseudo-science of Ecosystem Management by Travis Cork III in Forest and Fire Sciences
The Alseya Valley Prairie Complex, ca. 1850: Native Landscapes in Western GLO Surveys by Bob Zybach in History of Western Landscapes
Variations in the Earth’s Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages by J. D. Hays, John Imbrie, N. J. Shackleton in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
The History of Fire in the Southern United States by Cynthia Fowler and Evelyn Konopik in History of Western Landscapes
A Qualitative Study with the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Southern Appalachian Community Members by Nicolette Cooley in Restoration Forestry
How far could a squirrel travel in the treetops? A prehistory of the southern forest by Paul B. Hamel and Edward R. Buckner in History of Western Landscapes
The Danger of Wolves to Humans by Mikhail P. Pavlov in Wildlife Sciences
Titles through 31 January 2010
Using a spatially explicit ecological model to test scenarios of fire use by Native Americans: An example from the Harlem Plains, New York, NY by William T. Bean and Eric W. Sanderson in Forest and Fire Sciences
Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Pur’us: a complex society in western Amazonia by Martti Parssinen, Denise Schaan, and Alceu Ranzi in History of Western Landscapes
Two Views of the Serengeti: One True, One Myth by Charles E. Kay in Wildlife Sciences
Wolf Predation: More Bad News by Charles E. Kay in Wildlife Sciences
The Kaibab Deer Incident: Myths, Lies, and Scientific Fraud by Charles E. Kay in Wildlife Sciences
Mistreatment of the economic impacts of extreme events in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr. in Forest and Fire Sciences
Reduced Fire Frequency Changes Species Composition of a Ponderosa Pine Stand by Alan Dickman in Forest and Fire Sciences
Silvicultural research and the evolution of forest practices in the Douglas-fir region by Robert O. Curtis, Dean S. DeBell, Richard E. Miller, Michael Newton, J. Bradley St. Clair, and William I. Stein in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 31 December 2009
Spark and Sprawl: A World Tour by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences
Historic Anthropogenically Maintained Bear Grass Savannas of the Southeastern Olympic Peninsula by David Peter and Daniela Shebitz in History of Western Landscapes
Ecological and Cultural Significance of Burning Beargrass Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington by Daniela Joy Shebitz, Sarah Hay den Reichard and Peter W Dunwiddie in History of Western Landscapes
Bighorn hunting, resource depression, and rock art in the Coso Range, eastern California: a computer simulation model by Alan P. Garfinkel, David A. Young, and Robert M. Yohe II in History of Western Landscapes
Titles through 31 October 2009
The Wildland/Science Interface by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences
The Forest Health Crisis: How Did We Get In This Mess? by Charles E. Kay in Forest and Fire Sciences
Tending Fires by Roger Underwood in SOS Forests
Rhymes With Chiricahua by Stephen J. Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences
The relationship of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions to the southern California wildfires of 2003 by R. J. Delfino, S. Brummel, J. Wu, H. Stern, B. Ostro, M. Lipsett, A. Winer, D. H. Street, L. Zhang, T. Tjoa and D. L. Gillen in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 30 September 2009
Causes of Post-Fire Runoff and Erosion: Water Repellency, Cover, or Soil Sealing? by Isaac J. Larsen, Lee H. MacDonald, Ethan Brown, Daniella Rough, Matthew J. Welsh, Joseph H. Pietraszek, Zamir Libohova, Juan de Dios Benavides-Solorio, and Keelin Schaffrath in Forest and Fire Sciences
A 500-year record of fire from a humid coast redwood forest by Steven P. Norman in History of Western Landscapes
Two Forests Under The Big Sky: Tribal V. Federal Management by Alison Berry in Forest and Fire Sciences
World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 by John L. Sorenson and Carl L. Johannessen reviewed in History of Western Landscapes
Fire Gods and Federal Policy by Thomas M. Bonnicksen in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 31 August 2009
U.S. Wildfire Cost-Plus-Loss Economics Project: The “One-Pager” Checklist by Bob Zybach, Michael Dubrasich, Gregory Brenner, and John Marker in Forest and Fire Sciences
The Complexities of State Management of Wildlife Under Federal Laws by Randy Budge in Wildlife Sciences
An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas by David L. Erickson, Bruce D. Smith, Andrew C. Clarke, Daniel H. Sandweiss, and Noreen Tuross in History of Western Landscapes
Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in eastern North America at 3800 B.P. by Bruce D. Smith and Richard A. Yarnell in History of Western Landscapes
Impacts of California Wildfires on Climate and Forests: A Study of Seven Years of Wildfires (2001-2007) by Thomas M. Bonnicksen in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 31 July 2009
Testimony of Dr. Peter Kolb on Mountain Pine Beetle by Peter Kolb in Forest and Fire Sciences
Sea otters, shellfish, and humans: 10,000 years of ecological interaction on San Miguel Island, California by Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, Michael Graham, James Estes, Todd Braje, and René Vellanoweth in History of Western Landscapes
Origins and antiquity of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) on California’s Channel Islands by Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson, René L. Vellanoweth, Todd J. Braje, Paul W. Collins, Daniel A. Guthrie, and Thomas W. Stafford Jr. in History of Western Landscapes
Aspen: A Vanishing Resource by Charles E. Kay in Forest and Fire Sciences
Titles through 30 June 2009
Re-Inventing the United States Forest Service: Evolution from Custodial Management, to Production Forestry, to Ecosystem Management by Doug MacCleery in Forest and Fire Sciences
The Threat of the Yrmo: The Political Ontology of a Sustainable Hunting Program by Mario Blaser in Wildlife Sciences
Patch Burning by Stephen Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences
People of the Prairie, People of the Fire by Stephen Pyne in Forest and Fire Sciences
Fire History and Research, Big Bar Ranger District, Northwestern Trinity County, California: Critique of Fire Suppression Practices by Concerned Citizens for Responsible Fire Management in Forest and Fire Sciences
Voice & Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction by Stephen Pyne reviewed in SOS Forests
Titles through 31 May 2009
Bushfires, Prescribed Burning, and Global Warming by Roger Underwood, David Packham, and Phil Cheney in Forest and Fire Sciences
Revitalizing Science in a Risk-Averse Culture: Reflections on the Syndrome and Prescriptions for Its Cure by Gerald H. Pollack in Forest and Fire Sciences
Impacts Of Earthquake Tsunamis On Oregon Coastal Populations by Leland Glisen in History of Western Landscapes
The jam post and plain wire fence: An insight into York’s agricultural, ecological and economic history by Roger Underwood in History of Western Landscapes