by FSEEE | Nov 2, 2017 | Dispatch
The House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill that would remove the requirement that the Forest Service and other federal agencies undertake thorough environmental reviews before sanctioning logging projects as large as 30,000 acres. HR 2936, the Resilient...
by FSEEE | Oct 27, 2017 | Dispatch
Marbled murrelets, the diminutive seabirds that fly inland to lay eggs high in the crooks of old-growth Northwest forests, will likely go extinct in Oregon in coming years if no action is taken to help them, according to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. A...
by FSEEE | Oct 13, 2017 | Dispatch
A Forest Service district ranger in Montana who had been reassigned after tussling with local landowners over access to national forest land will get his job back after an internal review, according to a report in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Alex Sienkiewicz had...
by FSEEE | Sep 21, 2017 | Dispatch
The Trump administration’s plan to roll back national monument designations was blasted this week by New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, who, during a congressional hearing, pointed out several factual errors in a report issued by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Heinrich,...
by FSEEE | Sep 12, 2017 | Dispatch
More than a century ago, ranchers introduced bison to the Kaibab Plateau of northern Arizona, hoping they would crossbreed with their cattle. A century later, descendants of those bison have wandered from the Kaibab National Forest, where their numbers were held in...
