Judge Halts Illegal Logging Project in Montana

Judge Halts Illegal Logging Project in Montana

Federal Judge Dana Christensen halted the Horsefly Vegetation Project in the Little Belt Mountains in Lewis and Clark National Forest. Judge Kathleen DeSoto had ruled that both the Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hadn’t properly considered a...
Project 2025: What is the Plan for Public Lands?

Project 2025: What is the Plan for Public Lands?

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise is the pro-Trump playbook produced as the centerpiece of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda. The 920-page manifesto lays out a plan “to address and reform the failings of big government and an undemocratic...
asSAuLTing a Unique Forest on the Toiyabe

asSAuLTing a Unique Forest on the Toiyabe

Reaching 11,918 feet above sea level, Mt. Charleston is the highest peak in the Spring Mountains, a forested oasis on the Toiyabe National Forest west of Las Vegas. Because of its high elevation and drastically different ecosystem than the surrounding Mojave Desert,...
The Northwest Forest Plan Amendment

The Northwest Forest Plan Amendment

The Northwest Forest Plan — the world’s largest ecosystem management plan — was adopted in 1994 after President Bill Clinton essentially imposed the Plan on the Forest Service and other reluctant federal agencies. Of the Washington, Oregon, and California lands...
Restoring the American Elm

Restoring the American Elm

Like the American chestnut, the American elm is threatened by an invasive species, but the future for the elms looks a bit brighter than the fate of the chestnuts. For elms the threat comes from Dutch Elm Disease, introduced in the 1930s, and researchers are making...