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The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest Doing their part for holiday spirit, the Bush administration announced just two days before Christmas that it is exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- America's largest, and a longtime environmental battleground -- from a controversial Clinton-era ban on development in roadless areas o ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, logging, marine life, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Through Sick and Thin 'Healthy Forests' Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Through Sick and Thin "Healthy Forests" Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed President Bush signed his "Healthy Forests" initiative into law yesterday, a move that, never mind the name, left many environmentalists feeling sick. The Bush administration says the law will prevent fires by increasing the amount of l ...
Topics: logging, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Anglers Not Obtuse Dismayed by Enviro Policies, Some Anglers and Fishers Turn Against Bush		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Anglers Not Obtuse Dismayed by Enviro Policies, Some Anglers and Fishers Turn Against Bush Put President Bush in waders or camouflage and, what with his cowboy hat and rugged Western looks, he could easily grace the cover of Field &amp Stream. Yet the hunt-and-fish crowd, normally a loyal constituency of the Republican Party, is increasingly unhappy with the commander in chief. The president's efforts to roll back ...
Topics: politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

The Thrill of Defeat The climate bill lost out, but the environment may yet prove the winner	Amanda Griscom	05 Nov 2003	Muckraker
"We were nervous as hell," said Kevin Curtis, vice president of National Environmental Trust, describing the sentiment leading up to last Thursday's Senate vote that defeated the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, 43 to 55. "But it's a great start. This may seem to be a defeat now, but in the end, it's a victory." Lieberman stumps for his bill. Pho ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, outdoor recreation, politics, 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)

Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management		31 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management The devastating forest fires raging across Southern California this week could initiate a change in environmental policy as sweeping -- but probably not as desirable -- as those ushered in by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Forest-management experts say blame for the fires is widespread, but t ...
Topics: California, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land The Bush administration announced yet another environmental rollback on Friday, following a pattern of releasing such news right before a holiday weekend, presumably in hopes that it will slip past the public's notice. This time the beneficiaries are mining companies, which, thanks to a reinterpretation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, politics, toxics, 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)

Rocky Roadless Bush Administration Refuses to Defend Roadless Rule		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Rocky Roadless Bush Administration Refuses to Defend Roadless Rule In what may be a final blow to the Clinton-era roadless policy, the Bush administration refused to appeal a federal court injunction against the rule by the deadline for doing so last Friday. Enviros are hopping mad that the administration didn't defend the policy, which aimed to prevent road-building, logging, and oil and gas development on 58.5 mil ...
Topics: politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass Office supply giant Staples and building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber have joined with environmentalists in opposing a Bush administration proposal that would allow roads and development in southeast Alaska's pristine Tongass National Forest. The three companies, all big us ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest President Bush made a swing through Oregon and Washington state late last week to talk up his environmental agenda in an attempt to attract eco-concerned suburban voters, but he was met with thousands of protesters who didn't buy his promises to deliver "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Fo ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Northwest, politics, Portland, 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)

Their Own Private Park Service Former Interior Secretaries Excoriate Plan to Privatize Park Service		31 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Their Own Private Park Service Former Interior Secretaries Excoriate Plan to Privatize Park Service "Radical," "reckless," "hellbent" -- those were some of the words Bruce Babbitt and Stewart Udall used to describe the Bush administration's plan to privatize much of the National Park Service. Prior to this week, the two former secretaries of the Interior Department -- both of th ...
Topics: business, national parks, politics, 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)

Back to the Yellowstone Age		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Back to the Yellowstone Age The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with Hoffman, saying Yello ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, national parks, politics, water pollution, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

What I Did With My Summer Vacation		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
What I Did With My Summer Vacation Looking for a good summer camp? A weeklong environmental activist training camp being held this week in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest might be for you. Sponsored by Greenpeace, the National Forest Protection Alliance, and other, like-minded environmental organizations, the camp is teaching some 70 participants the finer points of civil disobedience. The camp is designed to turn out a ...
Topics: Montana, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Chop Sticks		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Sticks Old-growth trees in roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska could soon be on the chopping block. The Bush administration announced yesterday that it plans to exempt the nation's largest national forest from the Clinton-era "roadless rule," which blocks logging and road-building on more than 58 million acres of wild land in national forests. The proposal, part of an effort to sett ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Neverglades		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Neverglades In more bad news for the environment, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) yesterday signed into law a highly controversial plan that will delay cleanup of phosphorus from the Everglades by a decade and, critics say, potentially result in the loss of $4 billion in federal funding for the massive restoration project. Bush -- who said signing the Everglades Forever Act was "the tough ...
Topics: Florida, legislation, national parks, news, politics, 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)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You In a major blow to wilderness advocates in Utah and around the country, the Bush administration on Friday announced its intention to suspend new wilderness reviews of federal lands in the West and to remove protections from nearly 3 million acres in Utah that had been under consideration for wilderness status. The Interior Department, in settling a lawsuit filed by the s ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, politics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Something Smells Fishy		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Something Smells Fishy The Bush administration is proposing changes to its salmon-protection strategy that critics say would endanger salmon while boosting logging in the Pacific Northwest. As it now stands, federal rules prohibit timber sales and other activities on public lands unless officials can demonstrate that fish would not be harmed. Under revisions pr ...
Topics: fishing, logging, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

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