BROWSING THIS SITE
Easiest with Microsoft Internet Explorer on a Windows PC with Microsoft Office and a fast connection.
An important mission of the Three Forests Coalition is commenting on forest plan revisions and proposing a Sustainable Mulitple Use Alternative. The coalition's alternative plan is developed collaboratively as a large, elaborate Word document. (The Manti-La Sal alternative submitted 31 March 2006 is 200 pages long and full of tables and footnotes.) These documents do not translate gracefully to HTML and evolve through drafts. Consequently, we have decided to abandon translation to HTML for these documents. Other documents (including tables of forest plants) were developed as Excel spreadsheets. They are also big and hard to translate. (The documents were larger as HTML and lacked fidelity to the original.)
With the hardware and software listed in the first paragraph, these Word and Excel documents open in an Internet Explorer browser window just as if they were HTML. Since some of these files are of megabyte size, these pages will be a pain to browse with a dial-up connection. As we get to it, we'll add warnings of file size and type to the links.
If you use Firefox on a Windows PC with Office, Firefox will offer to download the files and open them in the appropriate Office application. The difference from Internet Explorer is that the Office application opens in its own window, not a Firefox browser window. Since these links open a new browser window, you'll have a new blank Firefox window to close and perhaps the Firefox download status window.
On the Mac, Safari will offer to download the file to the desktop. You'll have to deal with it there.
We expect that most who interchange documents with others can deal with Word and Excel files, either with Office or other office suites. Also, Microsoft offers Windows readers for Word and Excel as free downloads. These might be treated as plug-ins by Internet Explorer so Word and Excel files will open in an Internet Explorer browser window.