I submitted the following report to the Biden Administration “Request for Information To Inform Interagency Efforts To Develop the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas:

My article, “Migrating Most US Fiber Production From Forests to Farms” was published by Elsevier, Inc. in their online Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes.” Inside is the readily available summary.

We often see [climate change science] portrayed as a kind of ping-pong match. But you have 2,500 scientists ... on one side of the ping-pong table and seven scientists on the other side.

“Americans used to be ‘citizens.’ Now we are ‘consumers.” ~Vicki Robin,

There is no money in conservation in the capitalist system. However, there is plenty of money for conservation in a fair and just capitalist economic-democratic government system.

The Oregon Department of Energy can not only help you with the basics of renewable energy, but, if you file an Oregon tax return, how they will give you money to install solar hot water heaters, energy efficient appliances, renewable energy generating systems, etc.

On Eating Meat is an essay I wrote many years ago on hunting that argues, in essence, if one is going to have animal blood in their mouth that it should occasionally be on their hands.

It is time to either congressionally legislate or/or administratively regulate the conservation and restoration of all mature and old-growth (older) forest stands and trees on federal land for the benefits of…

“Building to code is the least one should be able to do without going jail.” ~Andy Kerr

Population and consumption are two sides of the same coin. Addressing one without the other is futile.

I came to my interest in industrial hemp as a substitute for wood fiber in paper and construction products. It can do that and much more.

41 percent of all US lands are dedicated to pasture/range and the production of livestock feed; 31.6 percent of these lands are federal public lands…

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has introduced the proposed “ Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act” (S.2828; 116th Congress). Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has cosponsored it. As introduced, the legislation is an existential threat to public lands.

Life can only be categorized so far. Some other miscellaneous things may be of interest…

The National Monuments Act Act of 1906 is an extraordinary law. Among other things, Congress gave to the President the power to proclaim national monuments and most presidents since Teddy Roosevelt…

People have always chased around deserts looking for pots of gold. Such people have missed seeing the only real gold the desert offers

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USDA Forest Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, and USDI Fish and Wildlife Service. 2006

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. ~Stuart Udall

Population and consumption are two sides of the same coin. Trying to deal with one while ignoring the other is futile.