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Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: ... California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
On the Roadless Again In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has reinstated a Clinton administration rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forests from logging, mining, and construction. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted an injunction against the roadless rule yesterday, simultaneously affirming its legal basis and criticizing a lower court fo ...
Topics: logging, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

You're Living in Your Own Private Idaho		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
You're Living in Your Own Private Idaho An increasingly common type of collaboration between a conservation group and a logging company will protect up to 600,000 acres of private forestland in northern Idaho from development. The Washington-based timber company Potlatch, which owns the land, will sell its development rights to the California-based Trust for Public Land, which in turn expects to raise more than $40 million from ...
Topics: Idaho, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Are They Rocky Mountain High?		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Are They Rocky Mountain High? Another one from the Believe-It-Or-Not Department: Colorado officials want to increase clear-cutting to help solve the state's drought problem. Removing trees would allow more snow to fall to the ground, where it would run off into streams in the spring, providing enough new water to supply as many as a million families, says Kent Holsinger, the top water official at ...
Topics: Colorado, logging, politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, 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)

I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.?		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.? To the great joy of Canadian loggers, British Columbia's Liberal government unveiled a plan this week to streamline the approval process for forest cutting by April 2003. "The entire framework asks for a lot of trust and faith in the activities of forest corporations," said University of British Columbia forestry professor George Hoberg. Forest Minister Mi ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Keep the Pedal From the Metal		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Keep the Pedal From the Metal The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is barring off-road enthusiasts from one of their favorite playgrounds in Utah -- but this time, it's to safeguard their own health, not that of the environment. At Manning Canyon, a recreation area near Salt Lake City, the soil is contaminated with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals f ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Not With a Bang but a Whimper		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Not With a Bang but a Whimper The Bush administration's plan to open federal lands in the western U.S. to oil and gas drilling would produce a measly amount of energy and a massive amount of environmental destruction, according to a Wilderness Society report released yesterday. The proposed drilling areas, which are scattered throughout millions of acres in six Rocky Mountain states and include som ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, 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)

Just Deserts		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Just Deserts A controversial plan to transform a tract of the Mojave Desert into a giant water-storage facility was killed yesterday by California's Metropolitan Water District. First presented in 1997 by Keith Brackpool, an advisor and leading financial backer to Gov. Gray Davis (D), the $150 million project would have entailed the construction of a 35-mile pipeline between the MWD's Colorado River aqueduct and the ...
Topics: California, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Paper Tiger Confusion over the definition of old growth is spurring a new campaign by ForestEthics against major paper retailers. In the past, the environmental organization has taken on lumber retailers such as Home Depot; now, it's turning its attention to Staples, accusing the company of misleading customers into thinki ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service		05 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service Two House Democrats have accused the U.S. Forest Service of cooking its books in order to blame environmentalists for the fires that raged across much of the West this summer. Reps. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) spoke out yesterday against a recent USFS report in which the agency claimed that environmental appeals delayed 48 percent of proj ...
Topics: Jay Inslee, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Like a Virgin		05 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Like a Virgin In better forestry news, a heretofore-unknown pocket of virgin forest has been discovered in Massachusetts and is believed to be the largest in the state. The area, which somehow escaped more than three centuries of logging and development, consists of up to 1,000 acres on the 2,608-foot Mount Everett, near the Connecticut and New York borders. The forest is comprised of hemlocks, pines, and other trees, most of them ...
Topics: Massachusetts, wilderness (all these topics)

Fire Him		04 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fire Him Allan Fitzsimmons, the man chosen by the Bush administration to head its wildfire prevention program, does not believe in ecosystems and says the extinction of threatened and endangered species would not be a crisis. Fitzsimmons was tasked last week with reducing fire danger on Interior Department lands through the newly formed Healthy Forests Initiative, but environmentalists say the appointment confirms their fears ...
Topics: logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Northern Light		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Northern Light In a classic example of strange bedfellows, the Nature Conservancy has teamed up with Great Northern Paper, a pulp and paper mill company, to protect thousands of acres of wilderness in Maine -- and over a thousand jobs for company employees. The conservancy, whose Maine chapter was founded by legendary environmentalist Rachel Carson, provided t ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, Maine, Nature Conservancy, wilderness (all these topics)

Backdraft		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Backdraft Citing the need to reduce fire danger after a season of devastating wildfires, President Bush is planning to propose more extensive thinning of Western forests and support legislation to streamline environmental rules that have slowed down some logging projects in the region. Most Western governors back the plan to thin forests, but environmental groups say the president is simply leveraging fears raised by this sea ...
Topics: logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Jungle Fever		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Jungle Fever Vines are the hallmark of any self-respecting jungle -- picture Tarzan swinging in from offstage -- but the situation is getting a bit out of control in the Amazon rainforest, where vines are growing so quickly they are choking trees and possibly interfering with the ability of forests to soak up greenhouse gases, according to a study published in today's issue of Nature. An international te ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (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)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Arresting Development		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Arresting Development U.S. federal authorities arrested two Portland State University students yesterday and are seeking two others in conjunction with the firebombing of logging trucks during last year's protest of the Eagle Creek timber sale in Oregon. Environmentalists spent years protesting the timber sale, and some resorted to tree-sitting and other forms of civil disobedience. The sale was finally cancelled las ...
Topics: logging, Oregon, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

Canyon of Worms		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canyon of Worms The Bush administration announced yesterday that energy companies will be allowed to expand oil and gas exploration beyond the boundaries of their leases at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Durango, Colo. The announcement marks the first time exploration has been permitted outside leased areas at a monument. Already, about 85 percent of the 164,0 ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cloud		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cloud A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the "Asian Brown Cloud," the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan. The ...
Topics: Afghanistan, air pollution, Asia, energy, health, India, Sri Lanka, wilderness (all these topics)

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