Against the dominant trend of clearcutting, high-grading, other "cut-and-run" logging, are a number of successful models of forest management that truly can sustain both landowner and forest. Below you will find links to some some resources to help you along this path.

Pioneer Forest

(EDITOR's NOTE: The following is submitted for Tom Kruzen who is currently experiencing login problems.)

THOUGHTS ON THE ATOMIC AGE

This proposed listing was the result of a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity. The hellbender has languished on the state and federal proposed lists since the late 1990's but no action has been taken because of a lack of funding from Congress and administations going back through the Clinton Admiistration. The only way to get FWS to get off of their duffs is to sue them. Charles
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 9, 2010
Ark., Mo. salamander proposed for endangered list
By Tom Parsons

Ozark Chinquapin Tree Deserves Protection After 35 Years

Timber industry runs into buzz saw

BY KIM McGUIRE

07/18/2009

Weeks after a south-central Missouri storm destroyed about one-third of the state's annual timber harvest, loggers are struggling not only to clear out thousands of downed trees, but to fetch a price for timber that makes the task worthwhile.

Comments are due by May 16 on the Southwest Project in the Cedar Creek District of the Mark Twain National Forest. This project includes heavy logging, cattle grazing, road development, building two parking areas, fence building, and other activities in the proposed Smith Creek Wilderness. Read more about it here.

Send comments from here.

Forest Service Plans Logging and Development in Proposed Smith Creek Wilderness: Your Comments Needed Now!

Situated in the midst of mid-Missouri’s population centers of Columbia, Fulton, and Jefferson City, the Cedar Creek District of the Mark Twain National Forest is much-used and much-beloved. And no portion of the Cedar Creek District is mor e special or better loved than the beautiful and still surprisingly remote Smith Creek proposed Wilderness Area above and below the old Rutherford Bridge connecting Boone and Callaway Counties. For more than 25 years, conservationists have worked with the Forest Service to respect and protect the authentic wilderness character of Smith Creek’s streams, bluffs, pinnacles, forests, wildlife, and solitude. In 2007, Smith Creek was included in a statewide proposal along with six other Missouri areas for designation as a federal Wilderness Area.

The Daily Green By Dan Shapley

Friday 11 April 2008

Defied once by courts, Forest Service tries a new tack.

We have probably all viewed and printed out pdf or PDF files, pdf being an abbreviation for "Portable Document Format" file. Has anyone else experienced the same exasperation as I, though, at seeing page after page printing with huge margins, sometimes 3" on both sides, and often even larger on top and bottom margins?

Forests For Bio Fuel

It sounds like the production of bio fuels from forest products is coming to the Ozarks. How this will impact our forests is uncertain, but I believe there is cause for concern.