Forest Service Tweaks Wyoming Logging Plan

Forest Service Tweaks Wyoming Logging Plan

A logging project high in the Wyoming Rockies will be modified after FSEEE raised concerns about impacts to the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. Officials with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest want to thin 6,670 acres of forest that they say have been...
Counterclaim Filed in 4FRI Lawsuit

Counterclaim Filed in 4FRI Lawsuit

This spring, two former executives of Good Earth Power AZ, which holds the largest forest restoration contract ever issued by the Forest Service, sued the company, alleging they were owed more than $4 million in unpaid salaries. This week, lawyers for Good Earth Power...
Senate Bill Would Loosen Environmental Laws

Senate Bill Would Loosen Environmental Laws

South Dakota Senator John Thune last week introduced legislation that would sharply curtail environmental reviews of logging projects on national forests. The bill, dubbed the Forest Management Improvement Act of 2017, would allow the Forest Service to undertake...
Forest Service to Allow Olympic National Forest War Games

Forest Service to Allow Olympic National Forest War Games

Forest Service officials have given the green light to a controversial plan to stage electronic warfare games on the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. The decision allows personnel from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station to park three “mobile transmitter”...
Trump Administration and Senator Target District Ranger

Trump Administration and Senator Target District Ranger

When a sitting U.S. senator and a member of the president’s cabinet go after a Forest Service district ranger, guess who wins? Alex Sienkiewicz, who was “reassigned” last month from his post on Montana’s Custer Gallatin National Forest, is finding out the hard way....