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Friday September 12, 2025 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr., PharmD. is Senior Science Adviser to the Men’s Health Network and a Past-Chair/Chair-Emeritus of the American Public Health Association and former Alumni Association Board Member of Columbia University School of Public Health.
Are people becoming desensitized to violence and horrific murders?
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7:10 Greg Roberts and today’s Outdoor Report from www.RogueWeather.com
7:35 Victoria Westbrooks from Jackson County Republican Party, Charlie Kirk memorial event this Sunday 4pm that everyone’s invited to in front of the Jackson County Courthouse on S. Oakdale in Medford. Logan also called right after and there’s also a Motorcycle Cruise in honor of Charlie Kirk tomorrow SATURDAY 12 noon at
8:10 Peter Lumaj is a Republican strategist and Fairfield-based attorney who immigrated to the United States from Albania. A graduate of Cardozo School of Law, he represents small businesses and families through his legal practice. Lumaj frequently speaks on issues such as securing the border while streamlining legal immigration, achieving American energy independence to combat inflation, strengthening national security through “peace through strength,” and reducing government spending. He maintains that America faces a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and advocates for balancing the federal budget to avoid burdening future generations with unsustainable debt.
Peter says:
“Charlie Kirk was assassinated for political reasons. The political persecution of the Republicans in this country should perturb each and everyone of us. The left cannot win on the field of ideas, common sense, Republicanism, constitutionalism or the defense of this great nation.
My son is heartbroken to see that Charlie Kirk is assassinated. He met him in Washington DC. The threats, intimidation, and the assassination of political opponents has no place in our Republican form of government.
The violence appears to be a one-way street. It is always coming from the left. You can go all the way back to 1861, when Lincoln was assassinated, and come all the way up to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, all the assassins have been left wingers and the assassinated people have been republicans either the exception of JFK. ”
About Peter Lumaj
More about Peter: https://peterlumaj.com/
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6:35 CHARLIE WELLS is an award-winning reporter at Bloomberg News who has covered finance, tech, real estate, and culture. Before Bloomberg, he spent five years at The Wall Street Journal and then four at The Economist. Today we discuss his latest book What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation, which will be published by Abrams on September 16th.
Millennials are currently America’s largest living generation—and they’re on the precipice of power. Now ages 29 to 44, they began life on an upswing of economic growth, the emerging Internet, and the rise of the cell phone. This set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood at the dawn of the new millennium. But that adulthood has been disrupted by war, recession, pandemic, and a sharp turn toward cultural and economic polarization. All the while, Millennials have been endlessly critiqued by others as immature, lazy, weak, incomplete, selfish, and supposedly riddled with failure.
In his book, Bloomberg News reporter Charlie Wells comes to the generation’s defense. Drawing on hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with five Millennials from vastly different corners of the country, he explores how the biggest events, ideas, and transformations of the century played out in private lives.
Wells makes the case for reexamining Millennials now, because:
- They’re about to be our leaders: Gen X is in power; Gen Z is in the limelight. But as Millennials approach midlife, they are entering an era of leadership in business, politics, and culture.
- There are enough of them to sway elections: With generational divides shaping US politics, we need to know how Millennials think and vote.
- They’re reemerging: Millennials are rising—in new, unexpected ways. Unpacking how will help us understand our cultural and economic futures.
- They offer a counternarrative to today’s culture wars: They are adaptable yet remember life before red and blue states. The optimistic memories they carry could unite us all.
7:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation – www.OregonFirearms.org – Today, it’s all about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
8:10 Oliva Herrera, concerned citizen and PCP with the Josephine County Republican Party
Soon she’ll have a documentary on Oregon Indivisible for viewing, and we talk about why it’s important to understand and keep aware of this well-organized group of Soros-funded Leftists.
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist with today’s Wheels Up Wednesday talk from www.EPautos.com
Review of the Mini Cooper – https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/09/06/2026-mini-cooper/
First Cars – https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/09/10/the-first-cars-we-once-had/
The Jay Leno Law, down in flames…what’s next? https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/09/05/old-car-hate/
7:10 Curtis Houck , Managing editors MRC Newsbusters www.Newsbusters.org
When corporate broadcast outlets finally acknowledged the brutal Charlotte train stabbing, they wasted no time blaming Republicans, even as they ignore the real issue: violent offenders with mental illness being released back onto our streets.
7:30 John Schleining, owner of the Paradise Lodge on the Wild and Scenic Rogue River – John shares the GREAT news on how the firefighters SAVED the lodge and the Half Moon Bar Lodge from the ravages of the Moon Complex of Firers.
8:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation – www.OregonFirearms.org – we discuss the sentencing of the GP gun store thief…was justice done? The interesting decay of judicial competency on display?
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6:35 – Is the U.S. suffering from PTSD over 9/11? Guest is Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. known world-wide as America’s Psychiatrist is the host of Dr. Carole’s Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books – 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships.
“Something is terribly wrong with us! Smog has caused memory problems. Denial, cognitive dissonance misplaced compassion for migrants and Trump Derangement Syndrome have erased the horrors of September 11, 2001 from our minds,” says Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., known worldwide as America’s Psychiatrist and The Terrorist Therapist® (www.terroristtherapist.com).
“How else could Zohran Mamdani, lead the pack of contenders for Mayor? Not only have New Yorkers erased that tragic day from their mind, but the West refuses to believe that Radical Islamists have been making their way through channels of politics, education and media to sell us the lie that they don’t really want to kill us ‘infidels’ – but they do! And we are in more danger in 2025 than before 9/11!”
This is the 5th year that Dr. Lieberman’s music video about 9/11 and the ongoing threat of terrorism will play on a mobile billboard truck traveling around Manhattan.
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“Zohran Mamdani is a one-man meme of the Red and Green alliance threatening America. Red represents the leftist, progressive, socialist-communist party. Green are the terrorists. They have aligned with each other as a marriage of convenience – since they share the same goal of destroying America. But, they are strange bedfellows, since they don’t really believe in all the other same things.
Once America is destroyed, they’d settle these differences or destroy each other. But, right now, our complacency is letting the fox guard the henhouse and land in the Mayor’s office!” says Dr. Lieberman.
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7:10 Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com and a look back at what’s been learned 5 years after Almeda fire.
7:35 Former State Sen. Baertschiger talks our abuse at the hands of Pacific Power, and certainly its undue influence over we the people.
8:10 A different take on Almeda and the lessons learned. Captain William E. Simpson from the Wild Horse Fire Brigade joins. A deep dive, and I’ve included his “class prep” here:
How does the USFS plan on correcting the loss of the critical herbivory, including and especially our large herbivores such as the wild horses?
BACKGROUND: Synergistic Effects of Herbivory Loss and Fire Suppression
The interplay between reduced herbivory (BLM & USFS keep rounding up the lawnmowers – wild horses) and prolonged fire exclusion creates a “negative synergy” where fine fuels—grasses, forbs, and shrubs—build up excessively, forming continuous, flammable layers that didn’t dominate historical landscapes under indigenous stewardship. In California forests, including the Karuk’s Klamath River basin, deer and elk historically browsed these fuels, reducing biomass by an estimated 1.9–3 million tons annually statewide (as discussed previously), interrupting fuel continuity and limiting fire intensity. Wild Horses in OR & CA were previously managing about 100,000 tons of grass and brush in OR and CA before the BLM & USFS ignorantly started rounding them up. Fire suppression since the late 1800s has allowed denser vegetation to persist, but without herbivores, this accumulation accelerates: studies show ungrazed areas experience up to 45% higher annual burn probability and more severe fire behavior, as fine fuels ignite easily and carry flames into canopies. In Karuk lands specifically, this synergy contributes to high-severity wildfires that destabilize soils and sediment rivers, as the overloaded understory burns hotter, leaving bare ground prone to erosion during rains.
This buildup makes prescribed or cultural burns “dangerous” in modern contexts: high ground fuels increase the risk of fire escape, faster spread rates, and unintended high-intensity outcomes, which could harm ecosystems, communities, and firefighters. For instance, without grazing to reduce herbaceous layers (below ~18% shrub cover), burns can exhibit elevated flame lengths and fireline intensity, complicating control efforts. Data from analogous systems, like oak woodlands, indicates that fire alone struggles to replicate the fuel reduction achieved when combined with herbivory, leading to less heterogeneous burns and persistent risks.
Historical Context: Indigenous Burning in a Herbivore-Rich System
Indigenous practices, including those of the Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa, evolved in ecosystems where herbivores were integral, not absent. Tribes used fire to enhance habitats for deer, elk, and other grazers, promoting forage like milkweed, bunchgrass, and acorns while herbivores in turn kept fine fuels nominal through browsing—creating a self-reinforcing cycle of low-risk, effective burns. Historical records and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describe burns timed to seasonal herbivore patterns, ensuring open understories that minimized dangers like rapid spread or soil scorching. In the Karuk territory, this integrated management supported elk and deer populations, which browsed post-burn regrowth, preventing the “extremely high ground fuel loading” seen today. Colonial disruptions—overhunting, habitat loss, and suppression policies—decimated herbivores (e.g., deer from millions to under 500,000) and severed this balance, introducing fuel conditions absent in the era when indigenous burning was unhindered and highly effective.
Conditional Effectiveness and Modern Implications
Evidence substantiates that indigenous wisdom’s effectiveness for wildfire prevention is conditional on nominal herbivore levels: where grazing is present, burns achieve greater fuel heterogeneity, reduced severity, and habitat benefits (e.g., for fisheries via less erosion). In herbivore-scarce areas like modern Six Rivers, standalone cultural burns face heightened risks, as data from California shows grazed plots burn with 2–3 times less intensity and better control. Karuk-led initiatives recognize this, but are not advocating for co-management that revives herbivores using proxies like targeted horse grazing to mimic historical effects and safely reduce fuels before burning. This adaptive integration—rooted in TEK—could resolve the apparent contradiction, restoring low-severity fire regimes and mitigating fishery damages in a changing climate. During Merv George’s era, similar recognitions emerged in partnerships, though full-scale herbivore recovery remains a huge challenge given the ongoing decimation of large native herbivores like wild horses by the USFS & BLM.
Doing the same things and expecting a new result is just insanity.
I keep seeing these published narratives that clearly are not in the best interest of Oregonians or Californians when it comes to reducing wildfires and deadly toxic smoke.
Respectfully, my advice is to re-think selectively promoting what is actually contrary to an authentic environmental and ecologically sensible solution.
Suggesting that better forestry management is akin to a silver bullet for reducing wildfire is a con for economic gains that benefits only a minuscule minority of people, leaving the vast majority of Americans to suffer the myriad of losses that result, with far-reaching and costly adverse impacts. I can understand why you are selling ‘logging’ and forest management as so-called solutions. But those reasons are based in economics, that are not sustainability of our natural world, or cost-effectiveness (tax payers).
Wild Horses Reduce Wildfires, Science Shows that Logging Increases Wildfire
By: William E. Simpson II – © All Rights Reserved 2025
This brief counters the pro-logging stance that logging mitigates wildfires and the misconception that native wild horses (Equus caballus) increase fire risk as argued by ranchers with no supporting science. Logging exacerbates wildfires, soil degradation, and desertification, while horses, with a well-established 2-million-year co-evolutionary role, reduce fuels, restore soils, and combat aridification through superior seed dispersal compared to ruminants. All claims are supported by peer-reviewed science.
- Logging Increases Wildfire Risk
Canopy Opening
- Mechanism: Logging removes mature trees, increasing solar radiation and wind, drying soils (Countryman, 1955, cited in DellaSala et al., 2022).
- Impact: Creates conditions for rapid fire spread, unlike intact forests’ buffering canopies.
Fine Fuel Proliferation
- Mechanism: Logging slash and post-logging grasses/shrubs (1-hour fuels) are highly flammable (Zald & Dunn, 2018).
- Impact: Logged areas burn 2–3 times hotter than unlogged forests (Bradley et al., 2016).
Worsened Fire Behavior
- Mechanism: Fine fuels burn faster and hotter than moist mature trees (Kalies & Yocom Kent, 2016).
- Impact: Logging increases fire severity, not reduces it, creating a fire feedback loop.
Argument: Logging is not a wildfire solution—it amplifies fire risk by promoting flammable fuels, unlike intact forests.
- Wild Horses Reduce Wildfire Risk
Fuel Load Reduction
- Mechanism: Horses graze 1-hour fuels, reducing biomass by 20–40% (Beever & Brussard, 2000).
- Impact: Lowers fire intensity; e.g., 30–50% less cheatgrass in grazed areas (Davies et al., 2014).
Natural Firebreaks
- Mechanism: Trails and grazed patches disrupt fuel continuity, slowing fire by 25% (Naundrup et al., 2019).
- Impact: Mitigates wind-driven fires in logged areas (Kalies & Yocom Kent, 2016).
No Fire Increase
- Evidence: No studies link moderate horse grazing to increased fires; benefits outweigh overgrazing risks (Beever & Brussard, 2000).
Argument: Horses suppress fires by reducing fuels and creating firebreaks, countering logging’s fire-amplifying effects.
- Horses’ Seed Dispersal Repairs Damage
Superior to Ruminants
- Mechanism: Horses’ single-chambered stomach preserves 30–70% of seeds, dispersing 50+ species (Janzen, 1984; Whinam & Comfort, 1996).
- Contrast: Ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats) digest 90% of seeds, dispersing <10 species (Bartuszevige & Endress, 2008).
Restoring Seed Banks
- Mechanism: Horses re-seed native perennials, increasing grass cover by 25% (Davies & Boyd, 2019).
- Impact: Counters burn-induced seed bank loss (Mayer & Khalyani, 2011).
Soil Stabilization
- Mechanism: Reseeded perennials reduce erosion by 50% post-fire (Shakesby & Doerr, 2006).
- Impact: Mitigates 10–100-fold erosion in logged/burned areas (Neary et al., 2009).
Historical Context
- Dust Bowl (1930s): Ruminant grazing destroyed seed banks, causing desertification (Cunfer, 2005).
- Taylor Grazing Act (1934): Curbed ruminants, aiding recovery (Merrill, 2002).
- Horses’ Potential: Re-seeding could have mitigated Dust Bowl impacts (Kirkpatrick & Fazio, 2010).
Argument: Horses’ re-seeding restores ecosystems, unlike ruminants or logging, which degrade them.
- Logging and Burning Drive Desertification, Horses Combat It
Logging and Burning
- Mechanism: Fine fuels and soil pasteurization degrade soils, reducing water retention (Certini et al., 2021; Dregne, 2002).
- Impact: Creates “landscape traps” of degraded ecosystems (Lindenmayer et al., 2019).
Horses’ Mitigation
- Mechanism: Re-seeding and grazing enhance water infiltration by 10–15% (Fleischner, 1994) and microbial activity by 15–20% (Loydi et al., 2013).
- Impact: Restores resilience, preventing aridification.
Argument: Logging and burning fuel desertification, while horses’ ecological role reverses it.
- Management Strategy
- Counter Logging: Logging increases fire severity, not reduces it (Zald & Dunn, 2018). Intact forests are better (DellaSala et al., 2022).
- Defend Horses: No evidence links horses to fire increase; they reduce fuels sustainably (Davies & Boyd, 2019).
- Propose Alternative: Horses offer non-destructive fuel reduction and restoration, unlike logging’s damage.
Conclusion
Logging is a flawed, fire-amplifying practice that degrades ecosystems, while wild horses reduce wildfires, restore soils, and combat desertification through grazing and re-seeding. They are a sustainable solution, unlike logging or ruminant grazing, which fueled historical disasters like the Dust Bowl.
References
- Bartuszevige, A. M., & Endress, B. A. (2008). Rangeland Ecology & Management, 61(1), 1–9.
- Beever, E. A., & Brussard, P. F. (2000). Journal of Range Management, 53(2), 163–169.
- Bradley, A. M., et al. (2016). Ecology Letters, 19(7), 791–800.
- Certini, G., et al. (2021). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 154, 108137.
- Cunfer, G. (2005). On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. Texas A&M University Press.
- Davies, K. W., & Boyd, C. S. (2019). Rangeland Ecology & Management, 72(1), 1–10.
- Davies, K. W., et al. (2014). Rangeland Ecology & Management, 67(5), 467–472.
- DellaSala, D. A., et al. (2022). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(5), 302–310.
- Dregne, H. E. (2002). Arid Land Research and Management, 16(2), 99–132.
- Fleischner, T. L. (1994). Conservation Biology, 8(3), 629–644.
- Janzen, D. H. (1984). Ecology, 65(4), 1007–1027.
- Kalies, E. L., & Yocom Kent, L. L. (2016). Forest Ecology and Management, 375, 49–59.
- Kirkpatrick, J. F., & Fazio, P. M. (2010). Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly, 59(1), 7–10.
- Knapp, P. A. (1996). Global Environmental Change, 6(1), 37–52.
- Lindenmayer, D. B., et al. (2019). Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(5), 456–468.
- Loydi, A., et al. (2013). Plant and Soil, 372(1–2), 121–132.
- Mayer, A. L., & Khalyani, A. H. (2011). Ecological Applications, 21(6), 2188–2200.
- Merrill, K. R. (2002). Agricultural History, 76(2), 192–215.
- Naundrup, P. J., et al. (2019). Ecosphere, 10(8), e02816.
- Neary, D. G., et al. (2009). Geoderma, 150(3–4), 231–248.
- Shakesby, R. A., & Doerr, S. H. (2006). Earth-Science Reviews, 74(3–4), 269–307.
- Whinam, J., & Comfort, M. (1996). Australian Journal of Ecology, 21(3), 345–349.
- Zald, H. S. J., & Dunn, C. J. (2018). Forest Ecology and Management, 427, 393–403.
Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret.
Founder – Exec. Director – Wild Horse Fire Brigade
Ethologist – Author – Conservationist
Wild Horse Ranch
P.O. Bx. 202 – Yreka, CA 96097
Phone: 858. 212-5762
Wild Horse Fire Brigade (https://www.wildhorsefirebrigade.org/)
William E. Simpson II is an ethologist living among and studying free-roaming native species American wild horses. William is the award-winning producer of the micro-documentary film ‘Wild Horses‘. He is the author of a new Study about the behavioral ecology of wild horses, two published books and more than 500 published articles on subjects related to wild horses, wildlife, wildfire, and public land (forest) management. He has appeared on NBC NEWS, ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, theDoveTV and has been a guest on numerous talk radio shows including the Lars Larson Show, the Bill Meyer Show, NPR Jefferson Public Radio and NPR National Radio, Global News, The Guardian, and AM BEST TV.
Check out William’s Film Freeway account for films, studies, TV & radio interviews, and more HERE: https://filmfreeway.com/WilliamESimpso
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Gregory Wrightstone – CO2 Coalition
Gregory Wrightstone, is a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition in Arlington Virginia. He is bestselling author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity.
How the DOE has made your dishwasher inefficient expensive and on its way to being obsolete
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/why-dishwashers-quietly-disappearing-american-144939938.html
By nearly every metric, Earth’s ecosystems are thriving, and the human condition is improving. This notion of a prospering planet is entirely contrary to the claims of a climate crisis and a looming disaster around every corner, as proclaimed by the Climate Industrial Complex.
In this book, we explore these benefits and learn that we are feeding the planet’s growing population through expanded crop growth, that modest warming is saving lives and that extreme weather events are in decline.
Sleep well. There is no climate crisis.
BOOK: A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity
BIO: Gregory Wrightstone, author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity, is a geologist, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and best-selling author of “Inconvenient Facts.”
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Gregory Wrightstone, is a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition in Arlington Virginia. He is bestselling author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity.
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| LEGAL ANALYST/AUTHOR: John O’Connor, is author of Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism
He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases. |
12 Dem and Republican Fed judges criticize Supreme Court overturning lower court rulings
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7:35 Ira Mehlman with the Federation for American Immigration reform – More at www.FairUS.org
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7:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Jim Parsons and Parsons Pine Products
By Dennis Powers
Born in 1918 in Red Bluff, California, Jim Parsons was raised on ranches in Montana and Oregon. After graduating from Ashland High School in 1936, he attended Southern Oregon Normal School and appeared in early Shakespeare Festival productions under Angus Bowmer. While at a school dance, Jim met fellow student Effie Sweet from Port Orford. In June of 1941, Jim and Effie married, and he graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.A. in broadcasting.
When World War II broke out, they rented a store with an apartment in the back, and opened the “Vitamin Market,” selling fresh fruits and vegetables. Jim began working in the SF bay area shipyards. In 1944, he joined the Navy and was sent to the South Pacific; he served in the Philippines as a Lieutenant and commanded landing craft. After discharge, he remained there while starting an inter-island shipping business. The business thrived, but health issues brought Jim back to the States in 1948.
As a career in broadcasting meant living in a big city with no nearby hunting or fishing, he and Effie started a wood remanufacturing/recycling business in Ashland. Using trim ends from local mills, the business provided packing boxes for valley orchards. As it expanded, a cut-stock plant (“Parsons Pine Products” or “PPP”) was created. At the plant on Helman Street, they produced louvre slats, door and window parts, and mouse and rat trap blanks with Fisher Price and Mattel as major clients for their Lincoln Logs and dollhouse product lines.
Jim Parsons built much of the machinery, patented a sand-belt cleaner, and developed narrow-kerf-smooth saw blades to better production. The overriding goal was to utilize every inch of raw product. The company prospered to employ more than 100-people later from the one they started by themselves. Innovative incentives–such as well pay, safety pay, retro pay, and profit sharing were created–which are now concepts expanded on in business-management textbooks. Jim also served for several years on the Board of Directors for Navaho Forest Products. Until the Spotted Owl controversy, this business continued in its prominent niche.
In May 1991, U.S. District Court Judge William Dwyer (1929-2002) ruled in favor of the National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, which challenged the U.S. Forest Service’s 1986 Forest Management Plan as inadequate to protect the bird. Dwyer issued a sweeping ruling that halted all logging in the spotted owl’s habitat region under Federal jurisdiction, nearly 25 million acres in all. He ruled that the Bush Administration was breaking Federal laws by allowing so much logging on public lands that the owl could become extinct; and ordered the Forest Service to halt more than 75 percent of its planned timber sales–2 billion board feet–until the agency developed a final plan to protect the threatened species. Litigation continued but the damage was done.
This action quickly curtailed the business, as volumes spiraled down and employees needed to be let go. Effie and Jim retired to Port Orford where they built a house on Coast Guard Hill above the dock (including having a cabin on the Rogue River). As they grew older, they settled into a cottage at the Rogue Valley Manor and subsequently the Manor’s Health Center. When Jim passed away in 2014 at age 95, they had been married for 73 years. Three years later, Effie died.
This story speaks for itself.
Source: James Walter Parsons: Obituary, Mail Tribune, May 7, 2014; Effie Pearl Sweet Parsons: Obituary, Mail Tribune, Nov. 3, 2017; David Wilma, “U.S. District Court Judge William Dwyer blocks timber sales to protect the northern spotted owl,” Feb. 28, 2003, History Link Website at Court Decision.