by FSEEE | Feb 8, 2023 | Dispatch
The Forest Service is forming a new advisory committee for national forests managed under the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). The 20-member board will recommend changes to the 1994 plan, which dictates management of 19 national forests in Washington, Oregon, and...
by FSEEE | Feb 2, 2023 | Briefly
A recently published economic analysis shows White River National Forest attracts the most visitors and produces the greatest economic impact of any U.S. national forest. Based on pre-pandemic data from fiscal year 2019, the report attributes more than 12 million...
by FSEEE | Feb 2, 2023 | In the News, Victories
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed a mineral withdrawal order protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Superior National Forest from sulfide-ore copper mining. Sulfide-ore copper mining generates waste rock full of sulfates, which, when exposed to...
by FSEEE | Jan 29, 2023 | In the News, Victories
The Department of Agriculture finalized protections for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. The final rule, announced Jan. 25, repeals the Trump Administration’s 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, restoring protections...
by FSEEE | Jan 6, 2023 | Inside FSEEE
Declines to reduce usage of the chemical pollutant The preliminary response to FSEEE’s fire retardant lawsuit acknowledges that the Forest Service is acting illegally but then “denies each and every allegation of the [FSEEE] Complaint.” The FSEEE lawsuit alleges...
by FSEEE | Dec 7, 2022 | Dispatch
If approved, a proposal to mine titanium and zirconium in southern Georgia will threaten the integrity of the Okefenokee Swamp, designated a Wetland of International Importance through the Ramsar Convention. Ninety percent of the massive wetland lies within the...
by FSEEE | Dec 3, 2022 | Briefly
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a $1 billion lawsuit that sought to define the “greatest permanent value” of forests as timber revenue. The 13 counties that brought the lawsuit gave forestland to the state in the 1930s and ’40s. Oregon manages the land...
by FSEEE | Dec 3, 2022 | Action Alert
Please call both of your U.S. Senators today and urge them to support the Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act, HR 803, which the House of Representatives has passed. We have an important window of opportunity to protect new national forest wilderness...
by FSEEE | Nov 29, 2022 | Briefly, Fire Truth
After the Forest Service ignited a prescribed fire that became the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, Chief Randy Moore ordered a national review of the agency’s prescribed fire program. Published this fall, the review identifies 52 recommendations. Seven...
by FSEEE | Nov 24, 2022 | FSEEE in the News
Alex Wilson, reporting for VC Reporter, recently covered our lawsuit against the Forest Service challenging its use of aerial fire retardant. He writes, “When environmental activist Andy Stahl heard that last month’s battle to extinguish the Howard Fire in the...
