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 Stories About: United States AND US Forest Service AND wilderness
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Burned
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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 ... |
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| Topics: United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Burned
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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 ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey
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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 ... |
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| Topics: logging, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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