Welcome to the Western Institute for Study of the Environment. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit collaboration of environmental scientists, practitioners, and the interested public. W.I.S.E. provides this free, on-line set of post-graduate courses in environmental studies, currently fifty Topics in eight Colloquia, each containing book and article reviews, original papers, and essays. In addition, we present two Commentary sub-sites, a news clipping sub-site, and the W.I.S.E. Fire Tracking site. Reviews and original articles are archived in our Library. Recent titles reviewed are posted below.
November 16, 2007 | Comments Off | Topic: Introduction
The Cost and Futility of Trading Hot Air
Long Valley Voices
The Incineration of the Payette
Trigo Fire Follow-up
Plea Bargain Dashes Hopes For Full Investigation and Justice
States Fumbling to Intervene in Wolf Delisting Lawsuit
The Faces of Evil
The Gardner Files
Association of Counties opposes Mexican gray wolf reintroduction
North Fork Clearwater Wolf Kill
May 6, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Commentary Updates
Idaho Wildlife Services Wolf Activity Report by USDA-APHIS in Wildlife Sciences
May 6, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
Food For Thought by Alvaro Vargas Llosa in Rural Culture
An Urgent Signal for the Coming Ice Age by Peter Harris in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
The Food Crisis by J.R. Dunn in Rural Culture
April 23, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Introduction
Comments to the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Regarding “Appropriate Management Response” by Michael E. Dubrasich and Gregory J. Brenner in Forest and Fire Sciences
Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States by David Archibald in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
What They Didn’t Tell You About Wolf Recovery by George Dovel in Wildlife Sciences
Montane Meadow and Open Area Encroachment in the Lincoln Forest, Sacramento Grazing Allotment by Ric Frost, Casey Roberts, Garrett Hyatt, and John Fowler in Forest and Fire Sciences
Cut, Burn and Kill by Roni Bell (Sylvester) in Rural Culture
Still Feeding the World: a Tribute to Norman Borlaug by Paul Driessen in Rural Culture
Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal by Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Craig Idso, Sherwood Idso, and David R. Legates in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
April 1, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
The Forest Carbon and Emissions Model (FCEM) by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D. in Forest and Fire Sciences
From Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism by Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, in Rural Culture
Old-Growth Forest Science, Policy, and Management in the Pacific Northwest Region by Paul H. Beck in Forest and Fire Sciences
Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit Working Paper Version 68 by J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green, and Willie Soon in Wildlife Sciences
March 14, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
The Destruction of the Sheldon by Cliff Gardner in Wildlife Sciences
Cattle and Wildlife on the Arizona Strip by Cliff Gardner in Wildlife Sciences
The “Roadless Rule” and Global Warming - What You Should Really Know by Harriet M. Hageman in Forest and Fire Sciences
NAFSR Budget Recommendations for the USFS FY2009 Budget by George M. Leonard - Chairman, Board of Directors, National Association of Forest Service Retirees (NAFSR) in Forest and Fire Sciences
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, S. Fred Singer ed., in Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology
March 1, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
Before The Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians, edited and compiled by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, selected excerpts in History of Western Landscapes
In Retrospect by Henry T. Lewis in History of Western Landscapes
Are Lightning Fires Unnatural? A Comparison of Aboriginal and Lightning Ignition Rates in the United States by Charles E. Kay in History of Western Landscapes
Suggested Amendments to S. 2593 - The Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2008 by Members of W.I.S.E. in Restoration Forestry
Movie Review: The Trip to Bountiful by Vincent Canby in Rural Culture
February 24, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
The Need for the Management of Wolves by Arthur T. Bergerud in Wildlife Sciences
The Jim’s Creek Savanna Restoration Project: Silvicultural Analysis by Tim Bailey in Restoration Forestry
How Many Wildebeest Do You Need? by Mike Norton-Griffiths in Wildlife Sciences
Late Succession Is Eco-Babble Nonsense by Mike Dubrasich in Forest and Fire Sciences
February 11, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates
Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture On Canada’s West Coast by Judith Williams, reviewed in History of Western Landscapes
The Monster Reared His Ugly Head: The Story of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire by Jim Paxon, reviewed in Rural Culture
Angora: South Lake Tahoe - Disaster. Survival. Restoration by the Tahoe Daily Tribune staff, reviewed in Rural Culture
Imagine by James D. Petersen in Rural Culture
Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature edited by Charles E. Kay and Randy T. Simmons, reviewed in Wildlife Sciences
January 29, 2008 | Comments Off | Topic: Colloquia Updates