http://westinstenv.org W.I.S.E Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2007/11/16/welcome/ SOS Forests: Enviros OK Salvage Logging The Cost and Futility of Trading Hot Air Long Valley Voices The Incineration of the Payette Trigo Fire Follow-up Wildlife and People: Polar Bear Listed Arizona’s Navajo County ban wolf releases Why Our Republic Will End May 15th States Fumbling to Intervene in Wolf Delisting Lawsuit The Faces of Evil http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/05/06/commentary-updates/ Idaho Wildlife Services Wolf Activity Report by USDA-APHIS in Wildlife Sciences http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/05/06/latest-titles-15/ 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 http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/04/23/latest-titles-14/ 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 ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/04/01/latest-titles-13/ 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 ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/03/14/latest-titles-12/ 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 ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/03/01/latest-titles-11/ 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 ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/02/24/latest-titles-10/ 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 http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/02/11/latest-titles-9/ 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 ... http://westinstenv.org/blog/2008/01/29/latest-titles-8/