20 Years of Activism

FSEEE turns 20: Looking back and looking forward. By Patricia Marshall

• Taking on the Establishment by Jeff DeBonis

• The New Face of the Agency by Char Miller

• Shifting Political Winds by Patricia Marshall

• Into the Future by Dave Iverson

Life After Beetles

Rural residents in Colorado may have moved there to enjoy the forest, but now they find their hills turning rust red as bark beetles bore through the landscape. By Allen Best

Back to Work

During the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt put civilians to work on public land projects. The results of those efforts still stand today. By Margaret A. Haapoja

• Inner Voice. Bringing the truth to light sometimes requires a little ingenuity.

• Out There: At the Center of Controversy. New Mexico’s Valle Caldera National Preserve must become self-sufficient by 2015. By Tom Ribe

• From the Publisher: A New Mission for Changing Times. Climate change, fire and wilderness will define the next twenty years of forest policy. By Andy Stahl

• Point of View: Burn After Reading. Emails from agency officials reveal their secret strategies to discredit Glen Ith. By Alice Tallmadge

• Pulp: A Turbulent Century. In The American People and The National Forests, Samuel P. Hays describes an agency long on competence but short on friends. Reviewed by James Johnston

Coming up in the Fall 2009 issue of Forest Magazine:

• Mining on Federal Land

• Black Hills National Forest