My old boss, Fred Rossbach, likes to quip - "Hey Mary's been 'logging' way before anyone was blogging!" I started the column "The Forester's Log" in the late 1980's. I've been writing about forestry ever since. Each month I pen a new column, but also much of the last 25 
years of words is now available in the new book (UNM Press - March 2009):
by Mary Stuever
No scheduled events for me, so here is an opportunity to plug my baby brother's new book Tinsel.
What others are saying about The Forester’s Log:
“The Forester’sLog is about stewardship of America’s woodlands, but it is also about life—joys and sorrows, lessons learned, and people met along the way.” --High Country (Review by Dave Caffey)
“This new book by Mary Stuever is a “find” – like walking through the woods and coming across a lion track on a path, or watching a goshawk gliding through the trees.” – White Mountain Independent (Review by Jo Baeza)
“Stuever takes her readers along the Rio Grande bosque and across the high deserts and mountains of Arizona as she explores the relationships between land and people.” – Los Alamos Monitor
“This book has much to recommend it to practicing foresters, prospective foresters, and anyone else with an interest in forests and how they are managed. On one level, it can be read simply to educate oneself about forestry in the Southwest, ranging from the big-picture issues to how it is practiced on the ground on a day-to-day basis. What makes this book most interesting, though, is how effectively it blends the bigger story of forestry with an intensely personal account of one person’s experience with forests and as a professional forester.” – Journal of Forestry (Review by Jim Allen)
“Forester Mary Stuever started writing newspaper columns "to share my love for forests and my passion for my chosen profession." It's a profession that has changed dramatically during the last 25 years, and in her new collection, The Forester's Log, she helps us understand how -- and why -- those changes have occurred. The old emphasis on harvesting "board-feet" is now overshadowed by the critical need to restore natural conditions to the "cramped, crowded, cluttered forests" left by a century of fire suppression.” – High Country News (Review by Irene Wanner)
Mary Stuever's writings, in both the Forester's Log book and columns, introduce both hard science and her personal perspective. This surprising combination that reveals an emotional side to good, hard science is refreshing. She stands in the cross road of environmental passion and scientific management and then goes down both road ways.
- Michael Crofoot, ecological restorationist and stone mason. He is the author of THE LEGUMINOSAE: Their Place in World Ecology and Symbiont Inoculation Strategies for the Nursery.
"It's been a long time since a foresters wrote plainly about their work (Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold, Elers Koch (Forty Years a Forester) -- and back then it was only the guys."
- Ana Maria Spagna, author of Wilderness, Belonging and the Crosscut Saw
“Anyone who’s ever walked among towering ponderosas, worried about dying piñons, watched racing flames on a mountainside, or marveled at new growth sprouting from burned ground will love this book. Southwestern forests have found a compelling voice.”
—Mary Beath, author of Hiking Alone, Trails Ho
It is great to see the “Forester’s Log” in print. Having read many of the wonderful stories before this collection was published, I am excited to know that many others will now have that same opportunity.
- Arthur “Butch” Blazer, New Mexico, State Forester
Are you a forester who writes? Submissions wanted for a new anthology:
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Send Mary an email: mary@foresterslog.com