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Plum the Depths Deal could open way for more development in Montana forest		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Plum Creek Timber, which just negotiated a giant conservation deal with green groups, has also made a closed-door deal with the U.S. Forest Service that could ease the way for development on thousands of acres of Montana forestland. For decades, the USFS has enforced restrictions on logging roads that allow them to only be used for timber management. But under the deal expected to be form ...
Topics: logging, Montana, news, placemaking, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Meet the New Rules, Same as the Old Rules Enviros not fond of new forest management rules		11 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 11 Apr 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has released new regulations for forest management that are remarkably similar to regulations that a federal judge struck down last year. Under the new rules, species' sustainability will not be evaluated individually; instead, the focus will be on overall habitat. A coalition of green groups have sued, saying the rules loosen protections for wildlif ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Roads to Know Where? California sues Forest Service over road building, drilling plans		29 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 29 Feb 2008 California sued the U.S. Forest Service this week, claiming that it violated federal environmental laws and ignored state policies prohibiting road building in roadless areas of national forests. At stake are over 500,000 acres in four national forests in the state that the Bush administration plans to open up to road building, as well as 52,000 acres slated for oil drilli ...
Topics: California, litigation, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Ducking Donald U.S. forest official will not be jailed over fish-killing flame retardant		28 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 28 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service turned in a court-ordered environmental analysis of a fish-killing flame retardant 2 1/2 years late, and only after the agency's top official was threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. But the USFS did ultimately conduct the environmental review of ammonium phosphate -- which was dropped on an Oregon fire in 2002 and subsequently killed ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, politics, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

You've Got Jail Forest Service official threatened with jail time over fish-killing fire retardant		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:17 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Mark Rey, the undersecretary of agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, has been threatened with jail time or house arrest for his agency's attempts to continue using a flame retardant on forest fires that's toxic to fish. In 2002, fire retardant was dropped on a blaze in central Oregon, killing about 20,000 fish. Soon after, green group Forest Service Em ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Hydra Crimes and Misdemeanors Bush admin backs off appeal of nixed forest-management rules, to release new ones		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:12 AM on 09 Jan 2008 The Bush administration has backed off of an appeal of a March 2007 ruling that overturned controversial management rules for national forests. The struck-down rules allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commercial projects without undergoing environmental reviews and were found to violate the Endange ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Loggin' Went a-Courtin' Part of		06 Dec 2007	News
"Healthy Forests" law struck down by court for skirting eco-reviews Posted at 6:48 AM on 06 Dec 2007 A key part of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" law, passed in 2003, was effectively struck down this week by a federal appeals court. The "hazardous fuels reduction" rule let the U.S. Forest Service get out of analyzing the environmental impacts of timber sales up to 1,000 acres in size and prescribed burns up to 4,500 acre ...
Topics: deforestation, litigation, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Rey Snarls Top Forest Service official may be held in contempt of court		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Rey Snarls Top Forest Service official may be held in contempt of court The top official at the U.S. Forest Service has some 'splainin' to do. Mark Rey may be held in contempt of court and possibly jailed unless the USFS follows through on a court-ordered analysis of the environmental impact of a toxic flame retardant, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy has ruled. In 2003, ammonium phosphate that was ...
Topics: endangered species, news, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Rey snarls Top Forest Service official may be held in contempt of court	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The top official overseeing the U.S. Forest Service has some 'splainin' to do. Mark Rey may be held in contempt of court, and possibly jailed, unless the USFS follows through on a court-ordered analysis of the environmental impact of a toxic flame retardant, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Malloy ruled on Friday. In 2003, ammonium phosphate dropped on a wildfire killed 20,000 fish in a creek in central Oregon. As a result of a lawsuit brought by Forest Service Employees for Envi ...
Topics: endangered species, news, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules		20 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules In March, a federal judge put the kibosh on the U.S. Forest Service's revision of forest-management rules that had directed local managers to give economic concerns as high a priority as ecological health and removed requirements that managers ensure viable populations of native wildlife. H ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Forest Eviction Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Forest Eviction Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules Heads-up to the Bush administration: You can't always get what you want. (As always, the Rolling Stones know best.) On Friday, a federal judge tossed out the administration's revised forest-management rules, issued in 2005, which allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commerc ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

I Am Woman, Hear Me Saw U.S. Forest Service gets first female chief, trees cower		16 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
I Am Woman, Hear Me Saw U.S. Forest Service gets first female chief, trees cower File this under The More Things Change: On Friday, the 101-year-old U.S. Forest Service named its first-ever female chief. Huzzah! Alas, Gail Kimbell is a pro-industry engineer who helped create President Bush's controversial "Healthy Forests" plan and whose appointment has put conservationists on alert. "She is a strong proponent of turn ...
Topics: news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

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)

The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action		21 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action In a Three Stooges-esque poke to the eyes of the Bush administration (nyuk nyuk!), U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte yesterday reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road construction, logging, mining, and other development in roadless national forest areas. In May 2005, the Bushies replaced ...
Topics: land stewardship, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fight Fire With Mire On fire-fighting chemicals	Umbra Fisk	28 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Nearly every day, I can hear slurry bombers (planes that dump bright pink goo at the edges of fires) zooming overhead. I think the bright pink goo is a flame retardant, which seems to recently have gotten a bad reputation as a carcinogen. Not only that, but folks who have dogs here claim their dogs get hot spots from playing in the rivers below where the goo is dropped. What's going on? What is this stuff? Coul ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

A Breyer Power Federal judge rejects Forest Service plan to log in national monument		23 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
A Breyer Power Federal judge rejects Forest Service plan to log in national monument A federal judge put the smackdown yesterday on a U.S. Forest Service plan to allow increased logging in California's Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to about two-thirds of the world's largest trees. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the USFS forest management plan lacked " ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, news, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise In some parts of the U.S., being a forest ranger isn't the cushy job you might imagine. Far from keeping cartoon bears away from picnic baskets, rangers have been confronting a rising tide of urban-style crime: everything from domestic violence and drunken driving to armed robbery and marijuana culti ...
Topics: environmental justice, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Biscuits 'n' Crazy Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire		09 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Biscuits 'n' Crazy Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire Enviros have lost a four-year legal battle to keep logging out of Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, burned four years ago by the massive Biscuit fire. A federal appeals court has cleared the U.S. Forest Service to auction off rights today to about 400 acres of timber in the forest. The governors ...
Topics: logging, national forests, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics)

You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest		03 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest Wyoming is plenty bullish on a local natural-gas boom -- but Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) has put his foot down at the Wyoming Range, asking the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to halt sales of drilling leases on 19,000 acres of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Nati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

Maybe I'll Be There to Take Your Land As private forests in U.S. go for sale, enviros are pit against developers		21 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Maybe I'll Be There to Take Your Land As private forests in U.S. go for sale, enviros are pit against developers Privately owned forests make up nearly 20 percent of U.S. land, and they're changing hands at a blistering pace. A U.S. Forest Service study predicts that 44 million acres of private forestland will be sold over the next 25 years -- an area twice the size of the state of Maine -- and conservationists are scra ...
Topics: news, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging		16 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging We interrupt our ongoing coverage of global-warming doom and gloom to update you on logging doom and gloom. A bill in the U.S. House would force the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other agencies to issue decisions on timber sales on public lands that have been burned or hit by o ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Forest Service Is Dead; Long Live the Forest Service! It's time for conservationists to collaborate with an agency they've long demonized	Mitch Friedman	28 Feb 2006	Soapbox
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 relati ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Truce Almighty It's time for conservationists to make common cause with the Forest Service		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Earth First!, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fighting Fire with Ire How one group is keeping communities safe from wildfire	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Hayfork, Calif., is a one-highway town. A small collection of storefronts and a post office hug Highway 3, a two-lane strip that curls through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. A decade ago, this was a major route for logging trucks. These days, a few trucks still rumble through, but the road is mostly quiet, mirroring the decline this Northern California outpost has gone through since ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

In the Line of Wildfire Could a Western wildfire be the country's next Katrina?	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
At the end of summer in southern Oregon's Cascade foothills, when trees and brush have turned tinder dry and thunderstorms regularly roll overhead, Millie Chatterton and her neighbors start thinking about the lightning strike that could touch off disaster. The Biscuit burns in 2002. Photo: USFWS. Chatterton can't forget the afternoon in 1987 when she walked out of a grocery store in her ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

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