by FSEEE | Oct 20, 2017 | Fire Truth
This has been a notable year for wildfires, with smoke clogging urban areas of the West and the federal government spending well over $2 billion trying to stop the flames. Homes—and lives—have been lost. As the fires burned, a narrative galvanized: Decades of fire...
by FSEEE | Oct 16, 2017 | Briefly
A three-decade battle over an upscale resort community that a Texas billionaire wants to build high in the Colorado Rockies isn’t over yet. B.J. “Red” McCombs has long sought permission to construct the massive Village at Wolf Creek development at the base of the Wolf...
by FSEEE | Oct 13, 2017 | Dispatch
A Forest Service district ranger in Montana who had been reassigned after tussling with local landowners over access to national forest land will get his job back after an internal review, according to a report in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Alex Sienkiewicz had...
by FSEEE | Oct 10, 2017 | Fire Truth
On September 26, federal firefighting managers boarded a helicopter and embarked on a flyover of the Chetco Bar Fire in southwestern Oregon, which at one point this summer was considered the top-priority wildfire in the nation. The fire, which burned nearly 200,000...
by FSEEE | Oct 6, 2017 | Sound Off
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has made no secret of his desire to acquire the U.S. Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture. Zinke’s zeal for restoring the Forest Service to Interior, where during its earliest years it resided, earned him a scolding from...
by FSEEE | Oct 3, 2017 | In Depth
The first months of the Trump administration brought plenty of setbacks for conservationists. There was Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s proposal to scale back national monument designations. A budget plan calling for double-digit cuts to land-management agencies. A...
by FSEEE | Sep 26, 2017 | Sound Off
This summer was exceptionally hot and dry throughout much of the West, and those conditions, unsurprisingly, led to an abundance of wildfires. More than 8.5 million acres have burned across the nation, well above the 10-year annual average of about 5.8 million acres....
by FSEEE | Sep 21, 2017 | Dispatch
The Trump administration’s plan to roll back national monument designations was blasted this week by New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, who, during a congressional hearing, pointed out several factual errors in a report issued by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Heinrich,...
by FSEEE | Sep 18, 2017 | FSEEE in the News
FSEEE has filed a lawsuit challenging the Forest Service’s approval of a Navy plan to conduct electronic warfare training on the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. Earlier this summer, Olympic National Forest officials gave the Navy a special-use permit to...
by FSEEE | Sep 15, 2017 | In Depth
Global SuperTanker Services, LLC, a subsidiary of a Connecticut equities firm, says it has what it takes to put out wildfires. The company owns the largest firefighting aircraft on the planet, a retrofitted Boeing 747 that can dump huge quantities of fire retardant,...
