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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Come to a virtual Tongass public meeting Grill the feds without leaving your armchair	Lisa Hymas	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the world's largest temperate rainforest, encompassing almost 17 million acres and oodles of charismatic megafauna. The Forest Service has a new draft management plan for the forest, and a spanking new draft environmental impact statement to go along with it. The EIS lists alternatives ranging from, on the high side, chopping down 421 million board feet of timber a year from the forest, to, on the low(er) side, essentiall ...
Topics: Alaska, deforestation, national forests, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, education, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan A review of The People's Forests	Jesse Lichtenstein	11 Feb 2003	Arts and Minds
At 3:30 in the morning, on July 15, 1932, 31-year-old Bob Marshall started walking. His goal: to see how many peaks in the Adirondack Mountains he could scale in one day. At 1 p.m., he met up with Herb Clark, an old family friend, at the summit of Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in the range. Clark was with a young architect named Paul Schaefer. More than 30 years later, looking back on the encounter, Schaefer ...
Topics: United States, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)