The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods

When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever captured this transition over the last few decades in her syndicated monthly column "The Forester's Log." Originally penned for newspapers in rural forested communities in the Southwest, the column has found its way into various magazines, newsletters, anthologies, and Web sites.

Stuever's career involves firefighting, fire rehabilitation, timber sale administration, environmental education, and many other aspects of forest management. Through her work with native tribes, local, state, and federal agencies, and private landowners, Stuever focuses on the important bond between land and people. With an inspiring and informative style, Stuever's tales weave fresh insight into forest issues. Her writings, collected here for the first time, tell the poignant story of places, people, and experiences that have shaped her passion while offering a rare glimpse of forestry in the Southwest at the turn of the new millennium.

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The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods

When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever captured this transition over the last few decades in her syndicated monthly column "The Forester's Log." Originally penned for newspapers in rural forested communities in the Southwest, the column has found its way into various magazines, newsletters, anthologies, and Web sites.

Stuever's career involves firefighting, fire rehabilitation, timber sale administration, environmental education, and many other aspects of forest management. Through her work with native tribes, local, state, and federal agencies, and private landowners, Stuever focuses on the important bond between land and people. With an inspiring and informative style, Stuever's tales weave fresh insight into forest issues. Her writings, collected here for the first time, tell the poignant story of places, people, and experiences that have shaped her passion while offering a rare glimpse of forestry in the Southwest at the turn of the new millennium.

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The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods

The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods

by Mary Stuever
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Overview

When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever captured this transition over the last few decades in her syndicated monthly column "The Forester's Log." Originally penned for newspapers in rural forested communities in the Southwest, the column has found its way into various magazines, newsletters, anthologies, and Web sites.

Stuever's career involves firefighting, fire rehabilitation, timber sale administration, environmental education, and many other aspects of forest management. Through her work with native tribes, local, state, and federal agencies, and private landowners, Stuever focuses on the important bond between land and people. With an inspiring and informative style, Stuever's tales weave fresh insight into forest issues. Her writings, collected here for the first time, tell the poignant story of places, people, and experiences that have shaped her passion while offering a rare glimpse of forestry in the Southwest at the turn of the new millennium.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826344595
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 03/15/2009
Series: no
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 278
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Mary Stuever is the state timber management officer with New Mexico's State Forestry Division. Her syndicated column "The Forester's Log" appears in newspapers in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada. She has published essays in such works as A Mile in Her Boots and served as one of the editors for Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains (UNM Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Chapter One Fire 1

Freezing Fires 4

Fire Triangles 6

Respect Fire 9

When Firefighters Start Fires 11

Smokey's Wisdom 13

Nothing Gray about Fire Starting 15

A Visit with Harry Kallander 17

Bernalillo Watershed Prescribed Burn 19

Musings at Grand Canyon National Park 22

The Perfect Fire on Powell Plateau 24

Burning Piles 26

Burning Questions 29

SEATs Take No Back Seat in Air Tanker Business 30

Southwest Fire Fighters 33

Who Pays the Bill? 34

Addressing the Wildland Urban Interface 36

Fire in the Bosque 39

Oklahoma Fire Response 41

Farewell to My Fire Boots 42

Alaska Adventures 45

Remembering Sam Tobias 49

Thoughts on Fire and Mortality 51

Chapter Two Forestry 57

Red Belt of 1984 61

Circle A Thinning 62

Betty Jane Curry: An American Tree Farmer 63

Wildlife Inspires Backyard Tree Farmers 68

An Argument for Keeping the Baca Ranch Private 70

This Year, Get a Patriotic Christmas Tree 73

Green Side Up, Okay? 76

Creating Cottonwoods 77

Survivor Tree Symmetry 79

Living in a Log Home 82

Forester's Confession 84

Cutting through the Tangle of Private Timber Sales 86

Divining Healthy Forests 88

A Common Vision for Jemez Mountain Elk 90

Dying Pinyons 92

Observations of a Dying Pinyon Tree 94

Pining for Pinyon 96

Habitat Typing 98

White Mountain Stewardship Program 101

In Defense of Informed, Intuitive Forestry 103

Logging in on Forestry 105

Chapter Three Burn Area Recovery 109

Rehabbing the Rodeo-Chediski Fire 112

Mixing in Mexico 114

Gathering the BAER Clan 116

Laying a Log Erosion Barrier Legacy 118

She Ran Calling "Godiltla"' 120

Stream Sense 123

Sowing the Seeds of a FutureForest 125

Fencing Feats 126

Land Lessons 128

Chasing the Chainsaws 130

Tribal Tree Planting Camp 132

Reflections on a Burned Landscape 134

Cibecue Native Manages Rodeo-Chediski Recovery Activities 136

BAER Fairs Showcase Burn Restoration 138

On the National Fire Plan Awards 140

Remembering Judith 142

Frightening Lightning 143

Flash Floods 145

Bear Scare 147

Cone Counting 149

Chediski Origin Myth 151

Moist Microsites 153

Cooking Reports-A Culinary Approach 155

Transitioning to Tribal Forestry 157

A Visit to Yale 159

Confidence and Competence 161

Sawing into the Tribal Forest Protection Act 163

Five Years after Rodeo-Chediski 166

Greening the Super Bowl 169

BAER Growls 171

Changing Woman 173

Chapter Four Environmental Education 177

Instilling That Love for the Land 180

New Mexico Forestry Camp 183

Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network 185

Project del Rio 187

Pilgrimage to Boca Chica 190

Exploring the Hundred-Acre Wood 192

A Winter's Day in the Pueblo of Santa Ana's Bosque 193

The Bosque Education Guide 195

The BEMP Intern Program 197

Alameda Tai Chi 200

Philmont Forestry 202

Contemplating Closures 204

Lessons in Fall Foliage 206

Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains 208

Striving to Follow in the Footsteps of Carson and Bruchac 210

Chapter Five Recreation 213

Pico de Orizaba: 1985-1986 Seldom Seen Expedition 215

Tomorrow's Adventurers 226

Rocky Canyon Trail Building 227

Opportunity, Privilege, and Respect 230

Mount Taylor Winter Quadrathlon 238

Rescue Training in the World of Whitewater 240

Tree Spirits in Thailand 243

Leopold Retires from Forestry Career 245

Copper and Condors 247

Acknowledgments 249

Chronological List of Articles 253

Index 257

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