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Highway 21 runs between Boise and Idaho City, alongside the Boise River, a watershed that could be affected by molybdenum mining. Photo by Peg Owen, Idaho Tourism. Work Begins to Tap Huge Mineral Deposits in Idaho

By New West Editor

Men's Super G event during the Salt Lake City Winter Games at Snowbasin, Utah, in 2002. Photo by Ken Lund, Flickr. If Denver Wants Winter Olympics, It Will Have to Show the Money

By New West Editor

White-tailed deer. Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Montana Deer Hunting Hit Hard by Disease

By Kate Schwab

Grizzly bear. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Grizzly Shooting Charges Elicit Outrage in Idaho

By New West Editor

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By Mickey Garcia, 3-16-10
Oh goody! Maybe we can borrow the money to fight the beetle from the Chinese if we ship 50% of the beetle killed logs to China for processing.
By Fotoware, 3-16-10
It's easier to just let it all burn.....but not at all cheaper....or safer. People apparently don't believe in that CO2-global warming thing anymore so, it's just fine to let it burn up, releasing centuries of sequestered CO2 all at once.
By Mickey Garcia, 3-16-10
The more Atmospheric C02, the faster the forests grow.
By Fotoware, 3-17-10
Why try to save lodgepoles that are already on "Death Row"? I'd think that we could return some lodgepole forests back into the ponderosa pine forests that once existed before the Europeans came to this continent.
By Mickey Garcia, 3-17-10
Harvest them and use them as fast as they die.
By bearbait, 3-17-10
Ponderosa is selected and tended by humans with fire, and to have that yellow belly stand of P Pine, you have to have patience and tolerance for seasonal smoke....and a couple of hundred years. And P Pine doesn't do well with lots of snow or periods of really cold weather.

Too many big fires and not enough small fires. But smoke is the human complaint that drives urban forestry on rural lands. Without smoke, you can't have old growth, and you can't have P Pine stands, and you can't have prairies and brakes and all the non-conifer stuff that creates diversity. Stand replacement fire produces another stand. Frequent fire keeps conifers from being there. Since Native Americans managed the landscape for thousands of years, perhaps it is time to have them do it once again. That would be culturally correct, and probably a source of institutional hand wringing. So we would just have to live with it. Or quitchyabitichin'.

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