ShareHistorically, man has always viewed the forest as something that is either in the way or as a building material. In more recent years both views have often been held on the same parcels. I read somewhere that there was an average of nine inches of top soil in America when Columbus discovered the New [...]

ShareOne of the lessons I learned as a child was to not be only a “taker,” that a moral person finds ways to “give back.” To some, of course, that is a fairly Pollyanna point of view, but the best teacher has always been life, and what we see all around us does tend to [...]

Share I grew up during the 1960s, so I heard about a lot of protests of the Vietnam War, but also a lot of protests about, oh, just almost anything. Not all of those protests were successful, of course, and I certainly did not agree with everyone who carried a picket sign. But the one [...]