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Track Rock Gap- What’s Up With That?
You may have read the Examiner stories (under “Crime and Corruption”). Links to those stories can be found in the below story. This is from Indian Country Today media network. In July, another...
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Presentation on NCFP Blog at the Society of American Foresters Convention
Here is a link to my powerpoint. Note that this was my first presentation as a retiree, so I now realize could have spent more time developing templates, cartoons and photos. Jay O’Laughlin’s...
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Telling The Forest Service Side of the Story: Lookout Mountain Project
Banners hung from Bend highways – and on a log deck, state protesters’ view that Deschutes National Forest is removing old-growth trees in thinning project; Forest Service denies claims This is an...
View ArticleState of the Media, and Implications for Climate Change Coverage:Rescheduled
UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED, I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT DATE WHEN I KNOW The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is having a seminar that will...
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Webcast Rescheduled for Tomorrow. Tom Yulsman at CSTPR on State of the Media
Here’s the link. If you aren’t available at 12 MT, it will be recorded. Here’s Tom Yulsman’s website.. CSTPR Noontime Seminar: State of the Media, and Implications for Climate Change Coverage CSTPR...
View ArticleSalazar Returns and the Hazard of Working in Natural Resources
In the Denver Post today we see a story about Salazar returning to Colorado and all the useful things he might do What I thought was interesting, given our discussions on this blog about him, was this...
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Pew on the State of the News Media 2013
This came across my desk through the climate change communications group at U C Boulder.. I think it’s interesting to share as it helps explain how we’re all a bit “on our own” when it comes to...
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Science, Law, and the Press: Idealized vs. Real
I’ve been thinking about how people use the terms “science” as in ” policies are better if they’re based on science”; and law as in “environmental laws are great because Congress made them, but if...
View ArticleAmazingly Different Coverage of Wildfire Funding: Denver Post
Now, in the previous post here I was critical of what I thought was the Administration’s focus on climate change as the source of wildfires.. only to find out that perhaps it was the New York Times’...
View ArticleFOIA Improvement Act – coming next year
I saw FOIA from the government side when I was a regional FOIA coordinator as an unfunded mandate that made agency staff drop their priority work, but then sometimes get bogged down in attempts to deny...
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The Gold Standard for Journalism- by Vince Bzdek
Recently there has been much discussion of the wonderfulness of traditional media outlets, and the questionability of other sources of information. On this blog, we have reviewed articles in which the...
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As Population Increases, More Wilderness is Needed?
Thanks to Earthjustice for this photo of the Sunset Roadless Area. The Denver Post reports on efforts to get more wilderness in Colorado, and it’s picked up by the AP.. interesting to take a look at...
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Mind the Gap: Monument Review Via the New York Times
By WillMcC – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4379199 It’s interesting to see how folks outside the Interior West see things, as per this New York Times story. I...
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Trump Reportedly Wants to Clearcut Giant Sequoias
As per the Sierra Club “Logging companies are lying in wait, chainsaws ready, for Trump to chop the protections of Giant Sequoia National Monument. Don’t let Trump give loggers free reign to fell...
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What is Beyond the “Fog of War”?
There are scary and uncertain times ahead for our forests. There is just too much “Fog of War” going on for the public to sort out and fact-check for themselves. Even the ‘fact-checkers’ should be...
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Local Newspaper Appreciation Day
I’ve mentioned before how important I think the Denver Post is in covering federal lands issues (and other Interior West issues), being perhaps the largest newspaper in the Interior West/Rocky...
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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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