by FSEEE | Feb 15, 2018 | Dispatch
Forest Service officials will allow exploratory drilling for copper and gold next to the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, including in an inventoried roadless area. The decision, announced last week, drew swift rebuke from conservationists who say...
by FSEEE | Feb 12, 2018 | Sound Off
You know the authoritarians are in charge when firefighters and cops get more money and everyone else gets less. That’s the bottom line in Trump’s FY 2019 Forest Service budget, which was released earlier today. Many dismiss the administration’s...
by FSEEE | Feb 9, 2018 | Inside FSEEE
FSEEE yesterday filed a petition calling for the supervisor of the Willamette National Forest in Oregon to immediately end closure notices stemming from wildfires that burned last summer. In a three-page letter to Willamette National Forest Supervisor Tracy Beck,...
by FSEEE | Feb 6, 2018 | Inside FSEEE
Fighting fires has emerged as the Forest Service’s top task, consuming more than half of the agency’s budget. And yet Forest Service administrators contend they do not have to conduct any environmental review of tactics used in managing wildfires, because each fire is...
by FSEEE | Feb 1, 2018 | Sound Off
At 17 million acres, the Tongass is America’s largest national forest. Its 19 wilderness areas and two national monuments draw a million cruise-ship visitors annually, employing more than 7,400 recreation industry workers, and provide habitat that supports another...
by FSEEE | Jan 29, 2018 | Briefly
The Forest Service is scaling back an environmental review of proposed mining in northern Minnesota in a move that critics say could threaten the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness. Instead of conducting a full environmental impact statement, the Forest Service...
by FSEEE | Jan 23, 2018 | Dispatch
The Trump administration is taking steps to remove Canada lynx from the threatened and endangered species list, despite a 2016 analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that found the cats will disappear from much of their range in the contiguous U.S. by the end...
by FSEEE | Jan 19, 2018 | Dispatch
An exotic fungus that is laying waste to bat populations in North America may share a fatal flaw with Dracula—it can’t stand light. Researchers with the Forest Service and the University of New Hampshire found that ultraviolet light kills the pathogen that causes...
by FSEEE | Jan 17, 2018 | Sound Off
Cliven Bundy is a free man. His cattle are free to roam the public estate. More than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees remains unpaid. The self-styled militia crowd is emboldened. Public land managers are demoralized. Somebody, please, put a tent over this circus. A...
by FSEEE | Jan 5, 2018 | Dispatch
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue delivered another message to his employees yesterday, emphasizing that his “OneUSDA” initiative will entail changes that “may be drastically different than the old ways of doing things.” Three days ago, the Office of the Secretary...
