Corner of State Sets Pace to Save Forests

Seattle P-I columnist Joel Connelly talks about the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition's new blueprint for forest management, which has identified over 300,000 acres of wilderness-quality lands, as well as thousands of acres of restoration forests and responsible management areas, in the Colville National Forest.

REPUBLIC -- Just over 100,000 of our state's 6.5 million residents live in four wide-open northeast Washington counties that extend from the Cascade Crest to the Idaho border.

They've endured city dwellers' jokes, fueled by county commissioners' malapropisms and the tiny minority of militia activists who watch for black helicopters and United Nations infiltrators. George H.W. Bush made his lone 1992 re-election campaign foray into Washington for a speech in Colville demonizing the Endangered Species Act ... Read more