For decades, conservationists have devoted themselves to monkeywrenching U.S. Forest Service operations with lawsuits, appeals, demonstrations, and tree-sits. That, says longtime forest activist Mitch Friedman, was then. Now the Forest Service is demoralized and underfunded. It's time for conservationists to shift to collaboration and partnership, inspiring the agency toward a new mission: restoring the health of America's national forests. Read this provocative piece and then join the discussion in Gristmill.