by Mitch Friedman
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The Forest Service Is Dead; Long Live the Forest Service!
It’s time for conservationists to collaborate with an agency they’ve long demonized 103
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago In 1982, Earth First!er Dave Foreman used form letters to blitz the U.S. Forest Service with administrative appeals, blocking over 100 timber sales that threatened roadless areas in several Western states.
There's a new ray of hope among forest activists.
Photo: iStockphoto.
This act of paper monkeywrenching sums up the relationship conservationists had with the Forest Service for three decades. We attempted nearly every act of peaceful hostility -- appeals, lawsuits, tree-sits -- to obstruct what was then the largest single agency in the federal government and the largest single employer… Read More
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