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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)

Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests As California strives to protect its own forests, rising demand for wood in the state is fueling logging far afield, in Oregon, the southeastern U.S., Canada, and even Europe. According to a new report by the state Department of Forestry, California imports about 75 percent of its wood and paper products. The problem is ...
Topics: California, Canada, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind Twenty years after a glut in the global tin market sent the Malaysia mining industry into a freefall, the country's miners are lobbying for a second chance -- this time, with coal. Recently, prospectors in Malaysia found nearly 237 million tons of new coal reserves. That's good news for the country's economy, but bad news for th ...
Topics: business, energy, Malaysia, mining and drilling, wilderness (all these topics)

Flush With Pride NRDC Teams up With Grassroots Activists to Protect Appalachian Forests		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: wilderness (all these topics)

Durban Renewal World Parks Congress Closes with Signing of Durban Accord		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Durban Renewal World Parks Congress Closes with Signing of Durban Accord The 10-day World Parks Congress closed yesterday in Durban, South Africa, with the signing of the eponymous Durban Accord. The accord is not legally binding for its 154 signatories, but it is still considered a tool to "promote, guide, and influence positive action for protected areas around the globe," according to WPC Secretary ...
Topics: land stewardship, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Taking Leaves of Our Senses U.S. Cities Lose 20 Percent of Trees		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Taking Leaves of Our Senses U.S. Cities Lose 20 Percent of Trees Urban sprawl and highway construction have gobbled up greenery at a startling rate, leaving U.S. cities with 20 percent fewer trees than they had just 10 years ago, according to the environmental group American Forests. In a study released as part of the annual National Urban Forest conference, researchers used satellite images to look at the tree canop ...
Topics: placemaking, United States, 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)

Not Just a Day in the Park More than 11 percent of Earth is Protected, But Species Still Suffer		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Not Just a Day in the Park More than 11 percent of Earth is Protected, But Species Still Suffer There's good news and bad news from the fifth World Parks Congress, being held this week in Durban, South Africa. The good news: There are now more than 100, 000 protected natural areas on the planet, including large stretches of the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra. The bad news: More than 700 endangered animal species risk extinction ...
Topics: oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Burned	The Wilderness Society	10 Sep 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: NPS. 192 million -- number of acres in the U.S. National Forest System1 6.9 million -- number of acres of private and federal land burned by wildfires in 2002 2 2.4 million -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires in 20023 980,000 -- average number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires annually from 1993 to 20024 648,768 -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires between Jan. 1, 2003, an ...
Topics: United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

To Everything (Burn, Burn, Burn) There Is a Season The Numbers Point to a Harsh Year of Forest Fires		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population A copper and silver mine planned for the edge of a wilderness area in Montana could push a small, local population of grizzly bears toward extinction, environmentalists are warning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the green light for the mine to be built o ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, Montana, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally filter and purify drinking water, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. Researchers came to this conclusion after s ...
Topics: New York, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (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)

Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies In an ironic twist, oil companies operating on Alaska's North Slope are finding their work impeded by a warming climate. The companies depend on long stretches of hard freeze during which they can haul heavy drilling equipment over tundra, but those cold periods are shrinking. In 1970, there were m ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming A coalition of conservation groups has agreed to pay $250,000 to a Wyoming rancher to buy out her federal grazing permit, a deal that will keep cattle out of a 137-square-mile area that abuts Grand Teton National Park. The land is home to grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, bald eagles, and numerous other species. This is just the latest incidence ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, wilderness, Wyoming (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)

Curtain Call of the Wild		28 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Curtain Call of the Wild The man who cleared the way for the lifting of the Iron Curtain now wants to transform the former cold war border region into a large, multinational nature reserve. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, now president of the environmental group Green Cross International, has joined with a number of European conservation organizations in pushing for preservation of the land that once separated the Soviet ...
Topics: European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Malaise-ia		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Malaise-ia As many as two-fifths of Southeast Asia's species -- at least half of which are found nowhere else in the world -- could go extinct over the course of this century, according to a study appearing in today's edition of the journal Nature. The vast majority of those extinctions will stem from deforestation, which is expected to affect 74 percent of the region by 2100. The scientists based their findings on a close study ...
Topics: Asia, wilderness, wildlife (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)

Pump and Circumstance		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Pump and Circumstance The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case about the Florida Everglades that tests the scope of the federal government's ability to fight pollution. At issue is how much power the feds have in controlling the amount of water pumped across the Everglades basin. State water managers say they should not be required to get federal permits for water pump facil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Florida, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Welcome to the Ex-jungle		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Welcome to the Ex-jungle The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest jumped 40 percent in 2002, with 9,840 square miles of forest lost, according to figures released this week by Brazil's Environment Ministry. That loss -- the highest since 1995 -- prompted alarm among environmentalists and pledges by the Brazilian government to implement emergency measures to protect t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, mining and drilling, rainforests, 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)

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