This letter is in response to Steven Stewart and Andy Mahler’s letters to the editor, where they expend a great deal of energy smacking around the Four Rivers Forestry Committee. The Four Rivers Forestry Committee has operated in southwest Indiana for many years. Our mission is to support the wise utilization and management of our…
The most recent Census survey reported 34 million Americans working fully remote, and more than 4 in 10 workers nationwide working remotely at least one day per week. To put this on a scale most of us will understand, there are now more households with a remote worker than there were Baby Boomer families. We…
This is in response to the letter from Steven Stewart published in the Free Press on April 28. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a professional forester who has spent my career managing public and private woodlands for a multitude of owners and stakeholders for multiple objectives, both economic and intrinsic. I am…
A letter to this newspaper dated April 5, and signed by an anonymous entity called the Four Rivers Forestry Committee, advocates for widespread logging and repeated wholesale burning of our small publicly owned forests in southern Indiana. The author(s) chose not to include their names for obvious reasons – the letter is mostly speculation, hyperbole,…
Dear Hoosiers, We live in a land where deep forests dominated the landscape for millions of years. Over 90% of our state was once covered in pristine forest. Today, we have just a small fraction of those ecosystems. Under the care of Mother Nature and the native indigenous populations, prior to statehood, nearly 20 million…
It was great to see the various activities taking place in Dubois County to celebrate and promote Earth Day. While April 22 was officially Earth Day, did you know the entire month of April is Earth Month? And while it is nice to designate an entire month to focus on the importance of protecting our…
Submitted by the Four Rivers Forestry Committee Recently, at a March 14 Commissioners meeting, the Crawford County Commissioners voted to add their names to the letter voicing opposition to the proposed Buffalo Springs Project by the Hoosier National Forest (https://www.madisoncourier.com/commissioners-continue-opposing-burn-plan/article_87acca40-4ccd-5d8b-8fc9-ad7bab66cff1.html). Our committee was disappointed by this news. It felt the need the explain why a…
Just an open question to Congressman Dr. Larry Bucshon, Senator Todd Young, Senator Mike Braun and everyone else who considers themselves to be a thoughtful, decent human being. How many more of our innocent, bright, sweet young children have to be slaughtered before you give back the 30 pieces of silver to the NRA and…
Charles Czeisler, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham And Women’s Hospital, explained the reasons for the danger in an interview. Maybe you are willing to accept a week-long 6% increase in fatal accidents caused by the DST “spring forward.” Do you also know there is an additional long-lasting…
The proponents of the Mid-States Corridor have offered four alternate routes around and/or through Loogootee. None of them are desirable. The study of the proposed Mid-States Corridor should have SERIOUSLY considered the proposed Mid-States Corridor versus improvements to the existing US 231. Instead, the $7 MILLION study focused only on the misguided MSC in an attempt to…
