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Denver Post Op-ed: Finding a Middle Ground on Protecting Greater Sage Grouse
John Ruhs, left, acting deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, talks to Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity, during a public meeting on...
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Slanted News?
I found an LA Times article regarding the Rim Fire, as well as the future of forest management within the Sierra Nevada. Of course, Chad Hanson re-affirms his preference to end all logging,...
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Yes, Virginia, Political Appointees Do Meet With Interest Groups: The...
Secretary Zinke meets withOutdoor Recreation Industry Roundtable (ORIR)Photo credit: Tami Heilemann Ruben Navarrette, a syndicated columnist who shows up in the Colorado Springs Gazette op-ed page,...
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Citizen Journalism, Information Reformation, The Smokey Wire and An Invitation
The previous info revolution One of our goals at The Smokey Wire is to hear both sides of issues. Sometimes that’s easy, as we can simply call and ask. Sometimes, the FS is in litigation, and the...
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Center for Western Priorities: Pushing the Boundaries of Partisan-Hood
John Persell raised an interesting question here. It was pretty “out there” for me to say that folks like the Center for Western Priorities are “not of our world”. Certainly I can’t speak for...
View ArticleJournalist Request for Stories and Contacts on National Forest Conflicts
Here’s a chance to help out a journalist: From Larry Parnass: A hearty hello to ‘The Smokey Wire’ community. I am an investigative reporter examining conflicts regarding management of our national...
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Australia and US Wildfire, Similarities and Differences: III. Coverage of...
A boom floats across a small bay near the dam wall at Warragamba Dam in Warragamba, Australia, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Although there have been no major impacts on drinking water yet from the...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Foundation-Funded Journalism for Journalists and Readers
It seems sometimes as if there are people who do things (write EA’s, produce goods and services) (doers) and people who review what doers do. Those include academics, judges, reporters and so on. The...
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Coverage of the Great American Outdoors Act- Giving Senator Gardner His Due...
Yesterday I posted this asking the question, why 15% of the total backlog $ to the Forest Service? But let’s not lose track that everyone worked together to achieve this, and it made its way through...
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Investigating the Investigation: “Big Money Bought the Forests” I. What Story...
Some of the photos in this OOPro story seem unusually dark. There also look to be many sticks in this barren industrial forest. Is that really a sapling? As my professors used to say when I’d critique...
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