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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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Meet the New Rules, Same as the Old Rules
Enviros not fond of new forest management rules |
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11 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:40 AM on 11 Apr 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has released new regulations for forest management that are remarkably similar to regulations that a federal judge struck down last year. Under the new rules, species' sustainability will not be evaluated individually; instead, the focus will be on overall habitat. A coalition of green groups have sued, saying the rules loosen protections for wildlif ... |
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| Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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The Roads to Know Where?
California sues Forest Service over road building, drilling plans |
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29 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:17 AM on 29 Feb 2008 California sued the U.S. Forest Service this week, claiming that it violated federal environmental laws and ignored state policies prohibiting road building in roadless areas of national forests. At stake are over 500,000 acres in four national forests in the state that the Bush administration plans to open up to road building, as well as 52,000 acres slated for oil drilli ... |
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| Topics: California, litigation, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Ducking Donald
U.S. forest official will not be jailed over fish-killing flame retardant |
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28 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:09 PM on 28 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service turned in a court-ordered environmental analysis of a fish-killing flame retardant 2 1/2 years late, and only after the agency's top official was threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. But the USFS did ultimately conduct the environmental review of ammonium phosphate -- which was dropped on an Oregon fire in 2002 and subsequently killed ... |
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| Topics: litigation, national forests, news, politics, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same
U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules |
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20 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules In March, a federal judge put the kibosh on the U.S. Forest Service's revision of forest-management rules that had directed local managers to give economic concerns as high a priority as ecological health and removed requirements that managers ensure viable populations of native wildlife. H ... |
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| Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Forest Eviction
Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules |
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02 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Forest Eviction Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules Heads-up to the Bush administration: You can't always get what you want. (As always, the Rolling Stones know best.) On Friday, a federal judge tossed out the administration's revised forest-management rules, issued in 2005, which allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commerc ... |
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| Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Smokey Robbin's On
Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise |
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03 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise In some parts of the U.S., being a forest ranger isn't the cushy job you might imagine. Far from keeping cartoon bears away from picnic baskets, rangers have been confronting a rising tide of urban-style crime: everything from domestic violence and drunken driving to armed robbery and marijuana culti ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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