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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Log Days of Bummer GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage		06 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Log Days of Bummer GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage The Bush administration, not environmental lawsuits, is to blame for the nearly $11 million cost of a logging project that will salvage only $8.8 million worth of timber, says a new study from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. After the 2002 Biscuit fire burned almost 500,000 acres in Oregon a ...
Topics: California, logging, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics)

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em Group tries logging forests to save them		07 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em Group tries logging forests to save them In order to save logged-over areas from development while improving wildlife habitat and creating jobs, the Virginia-based nonprofit Conservation Fund plans to ... log them more. It's a counterintuitive approach that's raising some hackles in the environmental community. The group has been acquiring thousands of ac ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, news (all these topics)

Lockyer and Load California says it will sue feds over Sierra Nevada forest plan		22 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Lockyer and Load California says it will sue feds over Sierra Nevada forest plan If the Bush administration's plan to increase logging in the Sierra Nevada national forest is approved, California will sue to block it, said state Attorney General Bill Lockyer (D). Last Thursday, the head of the U.S. Forest Service approved the plan; U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey now has 15 days to review it before it becomes final. ...
Topics: California, logging, politics (all these topics)

PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan Remember that controversial U.S. Forest Service plan unveiled in January that aims to triple commercial logging in California's Sierra Nevada mountains? The one they said would "protect small communities" and create "forests with a future"? The one that critics said flew in the face of wide scientific consensus on the best ways to r ...
Topics: California, logging, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging Citing the need to prevent catastrophic forest fires like the ones that plagued Southern California last year, on Thursday the U.S. Forest Service announced a plan to spend $50 million a year to thin forests in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The plan would allow logging of 330 million board-feet of g ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management		31 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management The devastating forest fires raging across Southern California this week could initiate a change in environmental policy as sweeping -- but probably not as desirable -- as those ushered in by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Forest-management experts say blame for the fires is widespread, but t ...
Topics: California, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Fighting Fire With Hot Air California Wildfires Put Pressure on Senate to Pass Bush's Forest Plan		28 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Fighting Fire With Hot Air California Wildfires Put Pressure on Senate to Pass Bush's Forest Plan The wildfires raging through Southern California are turning up the heat on senators to pass President Bush's "Healthy Forests" plan, which would limit environmental and judicial reviews of many logging projects in national forests with the stated aim of reducing the risk of fire. But enviros say the ...
Topics: California, logging, national forests, politics (all these topics)

Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests As California strives to protect its own forests, rising demand for wood in the state is fueling logging far afield, in Oregon, the southeastern U.S., Canada, and even Europe. According to a new report by the state Department of Forestry, California imports about 75 percent of its wood and paper products. The problem is ...
Topics: California, Canada, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Owl Play		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Owl Play Logging in the Sierra Nevadas could nearly triple if the U.S. Forest Service manages the forests there according to the new plan it released yesterday. That plan would reduce habitat for the California spotted owl in favor of aggressive forest thinning in the name of wildfire prevention. The Forest Service says the plan, which would radically revise the ...
Topics: California, deforestation, endangered species, logging, news, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Come Down From There Right Now!		18 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Come Down From There Right Now! Two of 18 environmental activists who have been sitting in redwoods in California's Humboldt County for almost a year were forcibly removed yesterday by Pacific Lumber Company, raising the longstanding conflict between the two groups to a new level. After the Humboldt County Superior Court issued the tree sitters a temporary restraining order last week, the company warned that it would resort to physicall ...
Topics: California, logging (all these topics)

Owl's Not Well		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Owl's Not Well In a blow to environmentalists, the California spotted owl has been denied protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. According to the U.S. Fish and Wild Service, there is not enough evidence that the owl's habitat is sufficiently threatened to merit listing -- even though the agency acknowledged that a U.S. Forest Service plan to increase lo ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Bye Sierras		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Bye Sierras The management of California's public forests will change radically if U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Jack Blackwell gets his way. This week, Blackwell proposed allowing timber companies to cut more medium-sized trees from 11 million acres of forestlands in the Sierra Nevadas. The Sierras were heavily logged throughout the 1980s, destroying crucial habitat for s ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Life in the Fast Lane		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Life in the Fast Lane Since early this month, environmental educator John Quigley has spent most of his time perched high in the leafy boughs of a 400-year-old oak tree that developers want removed to expand a local road in Santa Clarita, Calif. The proposed throughway would enable traffic to flow to a suburban community where more than 21,000 new homes are planned in Los Angeles County. Meanwhile, Susan Moloney has been fast ...
Topics: California, logging, politics (all these topics)

Timber Boom I		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Timber Boom I More than a decade after a car bomb injured two members of the radical environmental group Earth First!, a federal jury will decide whether the FBI and police in Oakland, Calif., violated the civil rights of the victims by ignoring evidence in the case. On May 24, 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were headed to Santa Cruz as part of "Redwood Summer," a series of ...
Topics: California, Earth First!, Federal Bureau of Investigation, logging (all these topics)

Wood Picker		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Wood Picker Eric Gellerman is making furniture out of old-growth Douglas fir, 150-year-old white oak, and Indonesian teak -- and getting kudos from environmentalists for doing so. Gellerman is cofounder of The Wooden Duck, a furniture store in Berkeley, Calif., that salvages wood to craft its wares. The environmental benefits range from the obvious -- the company does ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, logging, South Africa (all these topics)

Hill and Dale		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Hill and Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth upheld a Clinton-era plan on Friday that would increase protection for much of California's Sierra Nevada, although he also called for a review of how the plan would affect fire control in the area and whether it would conflict with a congressionally approved management scheme. The plan, which was the result of a ...
Topics: California, Department of Agriculture, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Soothing the Savage Breasts		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Soothing the Savage Breasts We've been derelict in our duties: Only now are we telling you that the largest known environmental striptease in the history of the world took place last Friday. Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging near Northern California's Headwaters Forest, at a stand of second-growth redwood trees that didn't make it into the 1999 forest protection dea ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Cut That Out		29 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Cut That Out California's largest timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, will shift its logging practices from selective thinning to clear-cutting on 70 percent of the 1.5 million acres it owns in the state. Company representatives say the clear-cutting will take place along ridgelines or roads, allowing firefighters better access to control wildfires. But environmentalists say cl ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

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