Research Papers & Essays
Research Papers
Collateral Damage: The Environmental Effects of Firefighting; The 2002 Biscuit Fire Suppression Actions and Impacts
Salvaging Timber; Scuttling Forests: The Ecological
Effects of Post-Fire Salvage Logging
Blowing Smoke: Industrial Logging Under the Guise of Fuels Reduction (a special report by the American Lands Alliance)
Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy: An Introduction to the Reviews and Reforms of 2000
Money to Burn: The Economics of Fire and Fuels Management
Fuel Reduction for Firefighter Safety
Logging-for-Firefighting: A Critical Analysis of the Quincy Library Group Fire Protection Plan
Analyzing the Cost-Effectiveness of Hazardous Fuel Treatments on the Deschutes-Ochoce National Forest.
Op-Eds
Fanning the Flames! The U.S. Forest Service:
A Fire-Dependent Bureaucracy (6/03)
Logging Without Limits Isn't a Solution to Wildfires
(8/6/02)
Untitled Letter to the Editor of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/13/01)
Logging-for-Firefighting: Fuelbreak Schemes in California (12/97)
Essays
Wildfire Paradoxes
Casualties of War: Environmental Impacts of Fire Fighting.
Fighting Forests with Fire: A Soldier's Story.
The War on Wildfire: Firefighting
and the Militarizatio
n of Forestry.
Friendly Fire: The Federal Wildfire Policy Review
Looking Past the Salvage Rider... Forward to Post-Rider Salvage.
Speeches
End the War Metaphor: The Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Firefighting (U. C. Berkeley, CA, Oct. 4, 2001)
From "Analysis Paralysis" to Agency-Community Collaboration in Fuels Reduction for Fire Restoration: A Success Story (Ft. Collins, CO, April 18, 2002)
Guest Articles
Smokey the Bear's Legacy on the West.
Best Fire Season Eve
r!
Getting Burned by the Timber Industry
Book Reviews
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