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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)

Camarooned		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ...
Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Country House, City House		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Country House, City House Once upon a time, the Russian dacha, or country house, was the domain of the wealthy few, those who could afford to escape the grime and grit of Moscow and St. Petersburg for wooded lawns and rural vistas. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's mushrooming business class has poured millions into building lavish second ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, Russia, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness (all these topics)

South Parks		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
South Parks A plan to privatize a string of national parks in sub-Saharan Africa has garnered support from former South African president Nelson Mandela, the World Bank, and the U.S. State Department, among others. The plan grew out of a 1998 meeting between Mandela and Paul van Vlissingen, a Dutch tycoon and conservationist, at which Mandela expressed concern that many African nations didn't have the ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Grazing a Ruckus		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Grazing a Ruckus After years of rancorous fighting, a group of Idaho environmentalists and ranchers are close to agreement on a plan that would give federal wilderness protection to more than 400,000 acres in the Owyhee canyon lands of southern Idaho. The deal would also let ranchers trade grazing leases for parcels of public land and assure ranchers the right to have outside reviews conducted before the feds could reduce the n ...
Topics: Idaho, ranching, 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)

Smokey Vs. the Bear		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Smokey Vs. the Bear National parks in the U.S., already beset by problems ranging from overcrowding to a huge maintenance backlog, now face a new crisis: illegal marijuana farming. "This is massive-scale agriculture that is threatening the very mission of the national parks, which is to preserve the natural environment in perpetuity and provide for safe public recreation," says Bill Tweed, chief naturalist at Sequoia Nat ...
Topics: United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Coal Comfort		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Comfort A four-and-a-half-year study by the federal government has confirmed what most residents of Appalachia figured was obvious: Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying the region's forests and streams. Yet despite the findings, which were released yesterday, the Bush administration does not intend to impose concrete limits on the practice. In ...
Topics: Appalachia, deforestation, energy, mining and drilling, renewable energy, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

Raising the Zanzibar		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Raising the Zanzibar The island of Zanzibar, located just off the coast of Tanzania, is set to get its first national park. The island, which is independently governed, plans to convert the 12,355-acre Jozani Forest Reserve into a national park to promote better conservation, management, and natural-resource use, according to Mussa Ame Silima, Zanzibar's minister of agriculture, natural reso ...
Topics: Africa, national forests, national parks, wilderness, Zanzibar (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)

Sadder Day in the Park		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sadder Day in the Park Summer is just around the bend, and with it, people all over the country will begin their annual pilgrimages to U.S national parks. Unfortunately, the parks aren't ready for them: They are underfunded, over-crowded, and in disrepair. The National Park Service budget has declined almost 20 percent in the last 25 years, while the park system itself has grown in size, number of parks, and numbe ...
Topics: national parks, 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)

Beehive State Stung		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Beehive State Stung Outdoor recreation retailers are threatening to pull two trade shows out of Utah because they don't like Gov. Mike Leavitt's (R) efforts to curtail wilderness designations in the state. With $24 million in trade-show-generated revenue at stake, a worried Leavitt has agreed to meet with outdoor industry leaders to discuss the matter. "The governor is very willing to start talking abou ...
Topics: business, outdoor recreation, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands Plans are underway to create a huge urban park in New Jersey that would be 10 times the size of New York City's Central Park -- on land now pocked by old garbage dumps and sewage sites. Unofficially dubbed the Meadowlands Preserve, the new park would encompass 8,400 acres of wetlands and green space, and would include sports fields, ...
Topics: New Jersey, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

For Never Wild		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ...
Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Why-oming		01 May 2003	Daily Grist
Why-oming In a much-anticipated decision, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management announced yesterday that it would approve the development of as many as 51,000 coalbed methane wells in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin. Although the BLM also called for a team of government representatives to monitor the air- and water-quality effects of the wells, environmentalists were disappointe ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Logging Off		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Logging Off The Internet has made it far easier for citizens to bend the federal government's ear -- too easy, the U.S. Forest Service says. The agency wants to revise its policies so that it will be free to disregard opinions submitted in "form letters, check-off lists, pre-printed post cards, or similar duplicative materials" when accepting public comment about forest plans. The rule change would apply to land-use ...
Topics: US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Chipping Dale		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Chipping Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth spoke in San Francisco yesterday in honor of Earth Day, but audience members might not have been very thrilled by what he had to say on behalf of the planet. Bosworth criticized environmentalists for trying to protect forests from logging and road-building projects, claiming that in fact the real threats to forests are fires and invasive species. With t ...
Topics: logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (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)

Road to Nowhere		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Road to Nowhere To the dismay of environmentalists, state and local officials in Utah will be able to claim the rights to thousands of miles of dirt roads on federal lands, under the terms of an agreement announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Utah Gov. Mark Leavitt (R). Leavitt and Norton said the deal would prevent unnecessary confusion and litigation over who has the right to control and maintain roads i ...
Topics: placemaking, 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)

Best Western		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Best Western The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has become a household name, but who's ever heard of the Western Arctic Reserve? Lots of folks will over the coming months if the Campaign for America's Wilderness gets its way. The Washington, D.C.-based group is trying to pin a new name onto the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as part of a c ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

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