by FSEEE | Jan 6, 2017 | Dispatch
January 6, 2017 — A project to remove lead from an abandoned shooting range on Arizona’s Prescott National Forest should be completed by the end of the month, Forest Service officials say. But the cost of the cleanup, covered by taxpayers, has generated criticism from...
by FSEEE | Dec 31, 2016 | Victories
As the year comes to a close, we’d like to take a moment to share with you a few of the victories we’ve celebrated so far in 2016. A few of our achievements this year include: Defeating Dangerous Legislation Reining in the War on Wildfire Keeping Helicopters Out of...
by FSEEE | Dec 29, 2016 | Dispatch
December 29, 2016 — In a rebuke to the Bundy family and its supporters, President Obama yesterday designated 300,000 acres in southern Nevada as a national monument. Obama also protected 1.35 million acres of federal land in southeastern Utah by creating the Bears...
by FSEEE | Dec 21, 2016 | Dispatch
December 21, 2016 — The long, slow process of revising the landmark Northwest Forest Plan took a step forward this month with the release of a draft “science synthesis” that examines current conditions on 24 million acres of public land. A team of 45 scientists...
by FSEEE | Dec 14, 2016 | Dispatch
Despite wide public opposition, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management this week opened sections of Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to potential oil and gas drilling. The agency offered 17 parcels on the national forest for private companies to lease for the purpose of...
by FSEEE | Dec 9, 2016 | Dispatch
December 9, 2016 — The main contractor for the largest forest restoration project ever attempted on national forests will pay a former partner more than $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract. Good Earth Power holds a contract with the...
by FSEEE | Nov 22, 2016 | Dispatch
November 22, 2016 — Forest Service officials this week gave a thumbs up to a controversial proposal to expand Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin ski area, including adding amenities designed to attract more summertime visitors. The expansion will add about 338 acres to the...
by FSEEE | Nov 18, 2016 | Dispatch
November 18, 2016 — A wide, wild swath of land in Montana sacred to the Blackfeet Nation gained protection from oil and gas drilling this week when Department of Interior officials canceled 15 energy exploration leases. The Badger-Two Medicine area spans 132,000 acres...
by FSEEE | Nov 14, 2016 | Dispatch
November 14, 2016 — During the long, bruising presidential campaign, relatively little was said about the management of public lands. In the days since the election, conservationists have expressed widespread dismay and fear that a Donald Trump administration will...
by FSEEE | Nov 7, 2016 | Dispatch
November 7, 2016 — When General George Armstrong Custer crossed the Black Hills in the summer of 1874, he noticed large swaths of dead forests. Contemporary ecologists believe mountain pine beetles did the damage. For more than a century, foresters have marked the ebb...
