(208 quotes found)
“This is not an issue of public forest management. It's an issue of private and state management. This is a critical distinction in terms of how the problem will be solved in the South and how it has been dealt with in the West.”
Chris Wood
“We would like people who will judiciously manage the forests and ensure the nation remains self-sufficient in its timber requirements.”
Cde Nhema
“We would have sued the Forest Service if the Forest Service had tried to approve it on a Categorical Exclusion.”
Chris Winter
“There may have been competition with other apes over resources in the shrinking forest.”
Dan Gebo
“The Northwest Forest Plan was a one-size-fits-all approach. But an ecosystem in Southern Oregon is much different than a forest in Northern Washington. Here we have an opportunity to use local knowledge and local input that really reflects the needs of the environment there.”
Chris West
“No community deserves to be left at risk of wildfire. The Forest Service should focus its people and resources on Community Protection Zones, not let them be diverted to low-priority backcountry projects.”
Carl Pope
“By focusing on (this) wondrous phenomenon ...the (state) forest department may delude itself into believing that these deaths are insignificantly low.”
Ashish Fernandes
“Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney Creek we are told there were 20 people in one of the buildings.”
Ernie Murray
“Most of the seven forest reserves in the south have been devastated.”
Sabina Manda
“Everything here at Forest City, our basketball tradition, the community being a basketball town, it has Bob's fingerprints on everything. We have a plaque outside the gym for him that recognized his 600th win. He built this program into what it is. I doubt he will ever be forgotten here.”
Dan Rosacker
