Bob Zybach: Letters & Editorials 1978-2003

Select Public Letters & Editorials, 1978 - 2015

The following links and icons represent a selection of Letters to Editors and Editorials published locally, regionally, and/or nationally from 1978 to 2015. Several of these selections are linked to publications in which multiple letters and/or editorials printed; e.g., the links to A.R.C. Quarterly, The Oregonian, and Newport News-Times are linked to more than two dozen additional written opinions. Most of the topics covered are specific to forest management, reforestation, wildfire economics, and local landscape history issues.

icon	Date	Title & Publication	Topic & Setting
	February 7, 1979	"Local Cutbacks Necessary," Readers Speak Out!, *News-Times, Newport, Oregon. [PDF_*1_MB]	Here are seven (7) published Letters and Guest Editorials printed in the *Newport News-Times* from 1978 through 1984**. Topics include reforestation of federal lands, forest herbicides, a defense of loggers, and needed improvements to Highway 20.
	Fall, 1981	*"Lead Line" (p. 4); "Facts & Opinions" (pp. 8-9); A.R.C. Quarterly, Fall 1983: 4, 8-9. [PDF_4_MB]*	Here are about two dozen (24+) links to columns, entries, editorials, and photographs published in seven (7) different issues of the A.R.C. Quarterly from 1981 through 1984; several of which I edited or co-edited. Topics regarded reforestation, forest management, worker safety, forest history, and Wilderness legislation.
	June, 1982	"Sell Public Land," Letters to the Editor, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon.	Here are eleven (11) Letters and Editorials printed in The Oregonian/OregonLive from 1982 through 2011. Topics include privatization of federal lands, wildfire economics, reforestation, and forest management.
	January, 1983	"Seeding 'Archaic'," Letters, SAF Journal of Forestry, Bethesda, Maryland. [PDF_1_MB]	Argument against aerial seeding vs. hand planting points made by Denis Lavender regarding the reforestation of the Tillamook Burn. Here is what I wrote on the topic for the A.R.C. Quarterly in September 1983.
	August 25, 1983	"Wilderness Controversy," A.R.C. Quarterly, Salem, Oregon. [PDF_1_MB]	Publication of August 23, 1983 formal letter on behalf of A.R.C. to Mark Hatfield and Sub-Committee regarding H.R.1149 Oregon Wilderness Resolution.
	June 26, 1985	"Oregon Pays A High Price For Federal Forest Ownership," *Gazette-Times*, Corvallis, Oregon.	Here are eleven (11) Letters and Editorials printed in the Corvallis Gazette-Times from 1983 through 2003. Topics include federal lands management, Wilderness, salmon, and forest history.
	January 22, 1992	"Increased Old Growth?" Letters, SAF Journal of Forestry, Bethesda, Maryland.
	July 27, 2003	"We Must Speed Up Salvage," Letters to the Editor, Democrat-Herald, Albany, Oregon. [PDF_1_MB]	Lead letter in combined Sunday Corvallis-Albany newspapers as response to two earlier Sunday editorials regarding Biscuit Fire logging salvage.
	November 3, 2008	"Higher Timber Taxes Not The Answer," Opinion, Guest Viewpoint, *The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon A-9. [PDF_1_MB]*	Here are five (5) Letters and Editorials printed in the *Eugene Register-Guard* from 2008 through 2010**. Topics are Global Warming, forest taxation, malaria, and forest fires.
	September 14, 2009	"The Real Cost of Forest Fires: Burning Up More Than Oregon's Trees," In My Opinion, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon: A-9. [PDF_1_MB]	Here are eleven (11) Letters and Editorials printed inThe Oregonian/OregonLive from 1982 through 2011. Topics include privatization of federal lands, wildfire economics, reforestation, and forest management.
	January 2013	[John Marker and Zybach, authors] "Beyond Suppression and Property Loss: Calculating the True Costs of Wildfire," Commentary, Society of American Foresters' The Forestry Source. [PDF_3_MB]	This editorial was also printed in a revised format with Zybach and Marker listed as co-authors in the Fall 2013 Oregon Fish & Wildlife Journal. Both editorials are based on a 2009 article, which Marker and I also coauthored, along with two others: Mike Dubrasich and Greg Brenner. [PDF_1_MB]
	October 9, 2013	"Cottage Grove Needs A Plan For Its Trees," Opinion, Cottage Grove Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon. [PDF_1_MB]	Here are five (5) articles and editorials published in the Cottage Grove Sentinel from 2011 through 2015.