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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)

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)

Can't Hear the Forest for the ORVs Forest Service unveils new off-road vehicle rules		03 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Can't Hear the Forest for the ORVs Forest Service unveils new off-road vehicle rules The U.S. Forest Service says its new off-road vehicle (ORV) policy, announced yesterday, will set limits on where the noisy, pollution-spewing machines can be used in national forests -- but conservationists say that's not good enough. The new rule sets no overarching standard for ORV use in the nation's 155 n ...
Topics: national forests, news, outdoor recreation, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Trunk'd As USFS suspends many activity permits, enviros say it's playing games		17 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Trunk'd As USFS suspends many activity permits, enviros say it's playing games The U.S. Forest Service has suspended permits for 1,436 activities in national forests nationwide, from cutting the U.S. Capitol's Christmas tree to guiding hunting and fishing trips. It claims it's just complying with a court order, but eco-advocates say the agency is intentionally stirring up controversy to aid efforts by congressional conservatives to ...
Topics: news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Just Looking Forest Service considers sustainability certification		09 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Just Looking Forest Service considers sustainability certification In an attempt to stem criticism of its logging and forest-management practices from both timber companies and conservationists, the U.S. Forest Service is assessing a handful of forests to determine if they meet management requirements outlined by two very different sustainable forestry organizations, with an eye toward possible certifica ...
Topics: logging, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Please Hold for the Next Available Wildlife Protection Bush administration puts Forest Service wildlife protections on hold		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Please Hold for the Next Available Wildlife Protection Bush administration puts Forest Service wildlife protections on hold The Bush administration issued a temporary rule yesterday suspending strict wildlife protections used by national forest managers since 1982. That year, the Reagan administration instructed forest managers in the U.S. Forest Service to maintain "viable populations" of f ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bridger-Teton Over Troubled Water Chalk up a win for Wyoming wildlands		16 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
A Bridger-Teton Over Troubled Water Chalk up a win for Wyoming wildlands Here's a rare victory for the wilderness crowd: The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that it will suspend plans to open 157,000 acres of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest -- much of it roadless -- to oil and gas drilling. Enviros say the forest is one of the most important wild areas in the country to have been mar ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, oil, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking	Amanda Griscom	06 Apr 2004	Muckraker
D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking By Amanda Griscom 06 Apr 2004 Mark Rey. Photo: USFS. According to lawyers from Defenders of Wildlife, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, seems to be pulling some moves out of the Dick Cheney playbook -- the very same tricks of evasion and secrecy that have jeopardized the vice president's reputation in the fiasco surrounding his energy task force. Rey and his departm ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, logging, Muckraker, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (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)

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)

Savage Salvage Federal agencies at odds over salvage-logging proposal in Oregon	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Siskiyou-hoo! Photo: BLM. A U.S. Forest Service proposal to conduct a massive salvage-logging operation in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest has come up against a surprising critic -- the U.S. EPA. While the Bush administration has advertised the plan as a necessary measure to protect the future health of the forest -- which was hit by the Biscuit fire, the largest wildfire in the nation ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national forests, Oregon, politics, US EPA, US Forest Service (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)

Let's Get Fiscal		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Let's Get Fiscal President Bush's $2.4 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2005, released today, gives the environment the shaft. The budget does propose funding increases for a handful of high-profile enviro projects (mostly in electoral swing states), including Superfund cleanups, conservation grants to private landowners, maintenance and construction in national parks ...
Topics: energy, fishing, national parks, politics, toxics, US EPA, 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)

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)

Feel the Burn Wildfires Likely to Worsen as Planet Warms		12 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Feel the Burn Wildfires Likely to Worsen as Planet Warms From Southern California to the French Riviera and beyond, big wildfires have dominated headlines this year -- but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Out-of-control blazes are likely to become an even more vexing problem as climate change intensifies, say a number of scientists. Warmer weather, stronger winds, and longer, drier summers would mean more fires and more acreage burned ...
Topics: climate, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Dollars Without Sense Privatizing Forest Service Jobs Would Cost More, Study Finds		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dollars Without Sense Privatizing Forest Service Jobs Would Cost More, Study Finds A Bush administration plan to privatize hundreds of U.S. Forest Service jobs, from wildlife biologists to safety officers, would cost taxpayers more than continuing to pay federal employees, a new agency study has found. Under the Bush plan, as many as one-fourth of all 40,000 USFS jobs would be outsourced in the interest of "impro ...
Topics: business, politics, US Forest Service (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)

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)

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)

Ranger in a Strange Land Violence Against Federal Lands Employees on the Rise		28 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Ranger in a Strange Land Violence Against Federal Lands Employees on the Rise As if the current assault on the environment weren't bad enough, it turns out that attacks on those responsible for protecting nature are on the upswing, too. Threats and violence against federal land management employees rose substantially last year, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Attacks on U.S. Fo ...
Topics: US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service (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)

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