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'And Now!' Grinned the Grinch, 'I Will Stuff Up the Tree!' Bush admin overhauls forest management policy		03 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
"And Now!" Grinned the Grinch, "I Will Stuff Up the Tree!" Bush admin overhauls forest management policy The Bush administration unveiled sweeping changes to federal forest-management policy on Dec. 22, while Americans milled through malls and airports, minds dancing with visions of, well, everything but forest management. The changes will "streamline" approval of forest-management plans b ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Oh, So Nov. 15 Is After the Election? Who Knew? Bush Administration Delays Roadless Ruling		09 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Oh, So Nov. 15 Is After the Election? Who Knew? Bush Administration Delays Roadless Ruling The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will delay a final decision on whether to repeal the enormously popular Clinton-era Roadless Rule in order to gather more public input -- two more months of public input, as it happens. Some enviros (oh, the cynicism!) noted that the delay would put the final decisi ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers The Bush administration's proposal to revamp (critics say gut) the Clinton-era Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction on some 60 million acres of federal forestland, is finding opposition in some odd places. Owners of tree farms, not typically considered a natural ally of greens, are backing the Sierra Club and other enviro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Senate Chainsaw Massacre Senate Passes Healthy Forests Initiative		31 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Senate Chainsaw Massacre Senate Passes Healthy Forests Initiative Meanwhile, forest management in the rest of the U.S. is set to change, too, with yesterday's 80-14 Senate vote in favor of a compromise version of President Bush's Healthy Forests initiative. Although the vote was somewhat influenced by the fires in California, its effect will be felt well beyond the Golden State, on as many as 20 million acres ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pillar of former President Clinton's environmental legacy yesterday when it refused to hear challenges to the creation of seven national monuments in five Western states. The Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, argued that Clinton overstepped the bounds of the 1 ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, politics, United States, West, wilderness (all these topics)

The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda During the next three weeks, President Bush will be making pit stops in a number of Western states both to tout his environmental agenda and to raise big bucks for his reelection campaign. Even though Bush's advisors consider the environment to be a "second-tier issue," they recognize that it's a ...
Topics: Arizona, deforestation, elections, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict The federal judge who struck down the Clinton-era roadless rule last month may have violated ethics laws, according to two legal watchdog groups that filed a formal ethics complaint yesterday. The groups say the judge should have recused himself from hearing the case because he potentially stood to profit from its outcome. The roadless rule ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Parks Stuck in Neutral		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Parks Stuck in Neutral The Bush administration defended itself yesterday against charges of neglecting the national park system, saying it has spent billions to maintain and repair parks around the country. According to U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, $2.9 billion has been spent on a maintenance and repair backlog and 900 related projects have been completed; in addition, she said, the department i ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Forests Fired		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Forests Fired The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed President Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative, which would limit environmental and judicial reviews of proposed tree-cutting projects in the name of preventing forest fires. Approval of the initiative came despite a report released last week by the General Accounting Office that found that, contrary to White House allegations, very few ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Evidence Is Thin		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Evidence Is Thin A new report by the federal government has found that very few forest-thinning projects have been stalled by appeals from environmentalists, giving the lie to allegations to the contrary by the Bush administration. The General Accounting Office reported yesterday that the U.S. Forest Service was able to proceed with 95 percent of thinning projects within 90 days or fewer, u ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Leaf Me Alone		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Leaf Me Alone At international talks underway on protecting endangered species, the Bush administration has announced that it is "neutral" and "undecided" in the debate over whether to restrict trade in big-leaf mahogany from Latin America. The U.S. position since the time of George Bush the Elder had been to call for stricter limits on trade in th ...
Topics: business, globalization, logging, politics, South America, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Staircase Closed		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Staircase Closed Former President Clinton acted within his authority when he created new national monuments during his final year in office, a federal court ruled Friday. The ruling was a victory for environmentalists and a blow for property-rights advocates and others who had challenged seven of the 15 monument designations in court. The Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., heard two separate ca ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Burned		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 ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Ranger Rearranger		26 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Ranger Rearranger Federal wildlife agents and rangers -- the folks who protect U.S. public lands from poaching, endangered species smuggling, illegal off-road activity, and other no-nos -- were in short supply long before Sept. 11. But now their ranks are even thinner, after scores of agents were re-assigned to serve as sky marshals or guard federal buildings in the nation's capital. The shift has been largely clandesti ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Spreading Like Wildfire		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Spreading Like Wildfire The Bush administration and governors from Western states agreed yesterday to the outlines of a 10-year plan to reduce the risk of wildfire, but postponed until next spring discussion on how the plan would be implemented. In the past, fire authorities focused on suppressing fires that had already begun. The new plan focuses on better collaboration among federal, state, and local governm ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		30 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 30 Jun 2000 LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. Today I'm writing from my aunt Beth and uncle Chris's house in Illinois, where they li ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		29 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Two weeks ago today began the craziness on Capitol Hill. Alex, Eric, and I rushed from o ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		28 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 28 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. I've been waiting for this day for nearly five months. This morning I slept until noon. ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		27 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Caribou in the Alaskan wilderness. Coffee, anyone? Photo: Dean Biggens, USFWS. This morni ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		26 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 26 Jun 2000 TURTON, S.D. The rain is falling this morning as I write from my dad's hometown of Turton, S.D. It's a small ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Cattle Prod Why we need to push livestock off public lands	Debra Donahue, Writers on the Range	25 Feb 2000	Soapbox
Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain't no cow country." That's what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine. That's also the bottom line of a book I've written, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

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