by FSEEE | Sep 10, 2018 | Briefly
An operation to remove non-native mountain goats from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state gets under way today. More than 700 goats live in the Olympic Mountains, descended from a handful released there by hunters nearly a century ago. Their numbers are...
by FSEEE | Aug 15, 2018 | Briefly
A trailblazing wolf that has made the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon his own is a father once again. Yesterday, federal wildlife biologists released a video showing a trio of pups cavorting on a remote forest road. OR-7 was the seventh wolf to be fitted with a...
by FSEEE | Jul 17, 2018 | Briefly
The owners of a small ski area in Utah have grand plans for a major expansion into a wild corner of the Wasatch Range. The proposal includes construction of a 4.3-mile gondola that would rank as one of the longest in the world. Mountain Capital Partners, which owns...
by FSEEE | Jul 6, 2018 | Briefly
After years of complaints by residents of a small mountain community in Washington state, the Forest Service announced this week that it will close a nearby site to target shooting. The site, known as the “7013 pit,” is south of the community of Greenwater and...
by FSEEE | Jun 12, 2018 | Briefly
Forest Service officials in California must decide within a month whether to reissue a permit to Nestlé to withdraw water from the San Bernardino National Forest, according to a settlement agreement reached last week. Nestlé extracts millions of gallons of water from...
