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Someone Set Up Us the Bomb		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Someone Set Up Us the Bomb U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced this week that she is "very comfortable" with the Pentagon's proposals to exempt the military from a broad swath of environmental regulations. In response to the war in Iraq, the Defense Department has stepped up its longstanding efforts to obtain military waivers for rules ranging from endangered species protect ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, US EPA, wilderness (all these topics)

Bad Medicine		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Bad Medicine South Africa's indigenous forests cover less than one-half of 1 percent of the country -- and the wooded land that remains is severely threatened by people who illegally gather medicinal plants to turn a profit. Michael Peter, director of the nation's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, said the problem isn't traditional native herbalists but rather commercial gatherers, who sell their harvest for profit, do not respec ...
Topics: Africa, wilderness (all these topics)

A Bird's-Eye View of Dwindling Open Space	Suzy Becker	24 Mar 2003	Ha.

Topics: wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shays Rebellion		10 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Shays Rebellion In the Cool Bills That Will Never Fly Department, a bipartisan duo last week introduced legislation in the House that would designate as wilderness all roadless federal lands in Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and western Wyoming -- a total of 26 million acres. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, championed by Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), has more th ...
Topics: North America, wilderness (all these topics)

Sierras Clubbed		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ...
Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Mass Appeal		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Mass Appeal Massachusetts may get its first national forest if a plan being drawn up by the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney (R) comes to fruition. The plan's still in the preliminary stages -- so preliminary, in fact, that no maps have yet been sketched -- but a considerable chunk of northwestern Massachusetts could be affected, including parts of the Berkshire region. The administration says it will make sure it has the blessi ...
Topics: Massachusetts, wilderness (all these topics)

Sticking Out Their Tongass		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sticking Out Their Tongass It's a big bummer, but not a big surprise: The Bush administration ruled on Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection for any additional land in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move that will open up hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth forest to logging. Public opinion was overwhelmingly in favor of creating more wilderness in the Tongass; about ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Hi, Desert		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Oakless Creek Canyon		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oakless Creek Canyon Flagstaff, Ariz., is shaping up to be the testing grounds for the Bush administration's Healthy Forests initiative, a highly controversial effort to ease environmental reviews of logging projects on many Western public lands and ban reviews entirely in areas where forest fires could threaten human developments. Some 2,000 suburban Flagstaff homes are located just seven ...
Topics: Arizona, logging, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Crying Shaman		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Crying Shaman A new oil pipeline that will run from the Russian region of Buryatiya into China is being hailed by industry officials and government leaders as a major economic boon, but many local residents beg to differ. Construction of the pipeline will involve bulldozing land and felling trees -- environmental problems anywhere and ...
Topics: Asia, China, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, green living, logging, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

When Nature Emails		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When Nature Emails Ah, wilderness -- the chirping of birds, the burbling of creeks, the melodic chime announcing that new mail has just arrived in your inbox. Yep, that's right -- or it will be if the Colorado Department of Natural Resources has its way. In an effort to boost revenue in the middle of a massive budget shortfall, the DNR plans to make electrical outlets an ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Department of Natural Resources, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Pain in the Tongass		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pain in the Tongass Moderate Republicans, as well as Democrats and environmentalists, are up in arms over eleventh-hour language added by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to a huge $395 billion spending bill that would boost logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The provision would exempt nearly 2 million acres in the Tongass from a rule approved by former President Clinton that ban ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, national forests, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan A review of The People's Forests	Jesse Lichtenstein	11 Feb 2003	Arts and Minds
At 3:30 in the morning, on July 15, 1932, 31-year-old Bob Marshall started walking. His goal: to see how many peaks in the Adirondack Mountains he could scale in one day. At 1 p.m., he met up with Herb Clark, an old family friend, at the summit of Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in the range. Clark was with a young architect named Paul Schaefer. More than 30 years later, looking back on the encounter, Schaefer ...
Topics: United States, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, education, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Bye Sierras		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Bye Sierras The management of California's public forests will change radically if U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Jack Blackwell gets his way. This week, Blackwell proposed allowing timber companies to cut more medium-sized trees from 11 million acres of forestlands in the Sierra Nevadas. The Sierras were heavily logged throughout the 1980s, destroying crucial habitat for s ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

White Cloud, Silver Lining		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Idaho, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Board Stiffs		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Board Stiffs In what may be the most significant regulatory backdown in state history, the Oregon Board of Forestry yesterday sharply reduced its obligation to review private timber sales on landslide-prone land. In the past, the state forester was required to approve all such logging and could be held liable if an approved project later resulted in harm to a threatened or en ...
Topics: erosion, fishing, land degradation, logging, marine life, Oregon, wilderness (all these topics)

Private Eyed		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Private Eyed The Bush administration is considering privatizing about 70 percent of National Park Service jobs, according to the Interior Department. The jobs in question range from maintenance workers to secretaries to scientists. Law enforcement officers, managers, and most park rangers would not be affected. About 4 percent of current employees could lose their jobs. Interior Deputy Assistant Secr ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Order in the Court		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Order in the Court With a staunchly anti-environmental White House and a Republican-dominated Congress, environmentalists are turning to the third branch of government to fight their cause. Happily, the courts have presented a relatively safe haven for greens, upholding strict clean air standards the Bush administration sought to water down, blo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, logging, national forests, politics, West, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job?		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job? Nearly half of the Canadian province of British Columbia could be opened to logging and other commercial interests if the provincial government has its way. In an effort to encourage business and stabilize B.C.'s economic base, the government is proposing to set aside 48 percent of the province, or some 45 million hectares, as ...
Topics: Canada, logging, mining and drilling, politics, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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