by FSEEE | May 16, 2017 | Briefly
Two Republican lawmakers from Colorado have introduced legislation that calls for moving the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters from the nation’s capital to a western state. Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton introduced the legislation earlier this month....
by FSEEE | May 12, 2017 | In the News
Senate unexpectedly rejects bid to repeal a key Obama-era environmental regulation – The Washington Post The Senate on Wednesday narrowly blocked a resolution to repeal an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions from drilling operations on public lands —...
by FSEEE | May 11, 2017 | Dispatch
A rule designed to limit the amount of methane released from drilling for oil and natural gas on public land will remain in place—at least for now. The Senate voted 51-49 yesterday against rescinding the rule, one of many the Obama administration promulgated to fight...
by FSEEE | May 8, 2017 | Dispatch
The company that holds the largest forest restoration contract ever issued by the Forest Service is being sued by two former executives who claim they are due more than $4 million in unpaid salary and damages. Good Earth Power AZ is tasked with thinning 300,000 acres...
by FSEEE | May 5, 2017 | Dispatch
Want to receive The Roundup each week in your inbox? Join our email list (signup in the right hand bar), and we’ll be sure to keep you up to date on all the actions taking place on your public lands. Trump Attacks National Monuments – FSEEE President...
by FSEEE | Apr 26, 2017 | Dispatch
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that could open millions of acres of national monuments to industrial development or even rescind such designations altogether—a move no previous president has ever attempted. The order requires Secretary of...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
Forest Service officials in Colorado are laying plans to limit camping in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, which holds some of the most iconic mountain scenery in the nation. The number of visits to the most popular destinations in the wilderness area nearly...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
Wildfire season in the West has barely begun, but across the nation it’s already been a busy year in terms of acres burned. Virtually all of those acres, however, are on state or private land. Nearly 2.2 million acres burned through the first three months of 2017,...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | In the News
Objections to Olympic National Forest War Games Rejected – FSEEE Olympic National Forest officials have largely dismissed objections filed by more than 100 people opposed to a Navy plan to conduct electronic warfare drills on the forest. Interior Department...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
Olympic National Forest officials have largely dismissed objections filed by more than 100 people opposed to a Navy plan to conduct electronic warfare drills on the forest. In a letter dated March 29, forest supervisor Reta Laford wrote that the Forest Service’s draft...
