by FSEEE | Mar 1, 2018 | Dispatch
A Forest Service proposal released today calls for rerouting a trail in Montana that crosses private land. That trail and others in the Crazy Mountains have been the focus of long-simmering disputes between the agency and local landowners. The plan calls for building...
by FSEEE | Feb 26, 2018 | Dispatch
Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last week that a wild stretch of mountains in southwestern Oregon will remain protected from strip mining, handing conservationists a rare public-lands victory under the Trump administration. Panama-based Red...
by FSEEE | Feb 22, 2018 | Briefly
Forest Service officials in Colorado this week released a plan to implement visitation restrictions for Hanging Lake, a turquoise-tinted pond in the Rocky Mountains and one of the most popular hiking destinations in the state. As many as 1,000 people visit the lake...
by FSEEE | Feb 20, 2018 | Dispatch
Does a bear poop in the woods? You bet—and that has a profound impact on the surrounding forest. A study by researchers at Oregon State University shows that brown and black bears in Southeast Alaska are the primary seed dispersers of devil’s club, a dominant shrub in...
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...
