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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)

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)

Public Land Enemy No. 1 White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land		13 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Public Land Enemy No. 1 White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land The Bush administration has proposed a sell-off of over $1 billon worth of public land over the next five to 10 years. Proceeds from the auctions of more than 300,000 acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings would largely go to rural schools and roads, funding for which has been cut by, ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Soothe the Salvage Beast Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Soothe the Salvage Beast Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging Salvage logging -- harvesting burnt trees from the site of a fire -- is not, contrary to public perception and federal practice, an environmentally benign method of gathering timber, write a group of forest ecologists in an article in the journal Science. Dead wood, they say, plays an important ecological role, providing shade for seedlings, niches for ...
Topics: logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Biscuit Gets No Gravy Biscuit Fire Salvage-Logging Plan Knocked by EPA		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: logging, Oregon, US EPA, US Forest Service, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting A growing cadre of critics charge the U.S. Forest Service with fighting too many fires, saying that the cost -- in money, lives, and ecological damage -- is too high. As logging in national forests has declined by 80 percent over the last decade, fighting fires has become the agency's pr ...
Topics: logging, national forests, pollution and waste, US Forest Service, wilderness (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)

Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass The U.S. Forest Service plans to cancel 20 timber sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- not because it's dedicated to preserving old growth in the vast rainforest, but because the sales were sure to be money-losers for logging companies. Enviros are feeling vindicated by the development; they say it proves ...
Topics: Alaska, business, logging, politics, rainforests, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest Doing their part for holiday spirit, the Bush administration announced just two days before Christmas that it is exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- America's largest, and a longtime environmental battleground -- from a controversial Clinton-era ban on development in roadless areas o ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, logging, marine life, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Rocky Roadless Bush Administration Refuses to Defend Roadless Rule		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Rocky Roadless Bush Administration Refuses to Defend Roadless Rule In what may be a final blow to the Clinton-era roadless policy, the Bush administration refused to appeal a federal court injunction against the rule by the deadline for doing so last Friday. Enviros are hopping mad that the administration didn't defend the policy, which aimed to prevent road-building, logging, and oil and gas development on 58.5 mil ...
Topics: politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Burned	The Wilderness Society	10 Sep 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: NPS. 192 million -- number of acres in the U.S. National Forest System1 6.9 million -- number of acres of private and federal land burned by wildfires in 2002 2 2.4 million -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires in 20023 980,000 -- average number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires annually from 1993 to 20024 648,768 -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires between Jan. 1, 2003, an ...
Topics: United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

To Everything (Burn, Burn, Burn) There Is a Season The Numbers Point to a Harsh Year of Forest Fires		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass Office supply giant Staples and building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber have joined with environmentalists in opposing a Bush administration proposal that would allow roads and development in southeast Alaska's pristine Tongass National Forest. The three companies, all big us ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Logging Off		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Logging Off The Internet has made it far easier for citizens to bend the federal government's ear -- too easy, the U.S. Forest Service says. The agency wants to revise its policies so that it will be free to disregard opinions submitted in "form letters, check-off lists, pre-printed post cards, or similar duplicative materials" when accepting public comment about forest plans. The rule change would apply to land-use ...
Topics: US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Chipping Dale		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Chipping Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth spoke in San Francisco yesterday in honor of Earth Day, but audience members might not have been very thrilled by what he had to say on behalf of the planet. Bosworth criticized environmentalists for trying to protect forests from logging and road-building projects, claiming that in fact the real threats to forests are fires and invasive species. With t ...
Topics: logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Something Smells Fishy		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Something Smells Fishy The Bush administration is proposing changes to its salmon-protection strategy that critics say would endanger salmon while boosting logging in the Pacific Northwest. As it now stands, federal rules prohibit timber sales and other activities on public lands unless officials can demonstrate that fish would not be harmed. Under revisions pr ...
Topics: fishing, logging, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Sierras Clubbed		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ...
Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Sticking Out Their Tongass		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sticking Out Their Tongass It's a big bummer, but not a big surprise: The Bush administration ruled on Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection for any additional land in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move that will open up hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth forest to logging. Public opinion was overwhelmingly in favor of creating more wilderness in the Tongass; about ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Oakless Creek Canyon		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oakless Creek Canyon Flagstaff, Ariz., is shaping up to be the testing grounds for the Bush administration's Healthy Forests initiative, a highly controversial effort to ease environmental reviews of logging projects on many Western public lands and ban reviews entirely in areas where forest fires could threaten human developments. Some 2,000 suburban Flagstaff homes are located just seven ...
Topics: Arizona, logging, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (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)

Paper Tiger		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Paper Tiger Confusion over the definition of old growth is spurring a new campaign by ForestEthics against major paper retailers. In the past, the environmental organization has taken on lumber retailers such as Home Depot; now, it's turning its attention to Staples, accusing the company of misleading customers into thinki ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service		05 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service Two House Democrats have accused the U.S. Forest Service of cooking its books in order to blame environmentalists for the fires that raged across much of the West this summer. Reps. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) spoke out yesterday against a recent USFS report in which the agency claimed that environmental appeals delayed 48 percent of proj ...
Topics: Jay Inslee, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Burned		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Burned In addition to scorching millions of acres of habitat and killing wildlife, the fires that have raged throughout the western U.S. this summer have taken another toll on the environment -- a financial one. The federal government expects to spend more than $1.5 billion battling wildfires this year, and millions of those dollars will come from sources that would otherwise be used to pa ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey Fanning a different kind of flame, Republican lawmakers are blaming environmental groups for contributing to the fires that destroyed more than 3.1 million acres of U.S. forests this year by blocking federal projects to thin undergrowth. Thinning removes brush and dead trees from the forest understory, thereby eliminating some of the dry matter and reducing ...
Topics: logging, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

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