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Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I ... I Couldn't Believe I Was in a Roadless Area
Deal to shrink roadless areas in Idaho approved by Bush admin |
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02 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:53 AM on 02 Sep 2008 An Idaho-specific plan meant to replace President Clinton's national roadless rule in the state was agreed to Friday by the Bush administration, timber interests, and a few environmental groups. If approved by the Secretary of Agriculture after a public-comment period, the revised rule would protect just 3.3 million ac ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, logging, mining, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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School and Unusual Punishment
Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline |
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09 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline What happens if you make funding for rural schools and roads dependent on revenues from a declining resource industry? What's that you say? Nobody would be stupid enough to do that? Ha ha. Readers, meet the federal government. A federal program that had tied rural funding to logging revenue led, as logging revenues ... |
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| Topics: education, logging, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Chase to the Cut
House passes bill to speed up salvage logging |
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18 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Chase to the Cut House passes bill to speed up salvage logging A bill that would speed up salvage logging in national forests after fires and other natural disasters has passed in the House. Currently, a careful review of wildlife and forest health is required before timber can be salvaged and sold after catastrophes; proponents of the heftily named Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act say this review takes too darn long, cau ... |
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| Topics: logging, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Flame! I Wanna Log Forever
Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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