Peeling Back The Bark
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The "Big Blowup" centennial anniversary is this weekend
By James Lewis on August 19, 2010Coming only five years after the U.S. Forest Service’s establishment, the devastating series of forest fires that swept over Montana, Idaho, and Washington on August 20–22 in what is known as the “Big Blowup” struck at a critical and pivotal …
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Notes from the von Salisch Symposium
By Guest Contributor on August 6, 2010Walter Cook shared with us his notes from a recent trip to Poland to attend a symposium on Heinrich von Salisch. Cook and Doris Wehlau translated the 1902 edition of von Salisch’s book Forest Aesthetics, which is available from …
