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...
by FSEEE | Sep 6, 2017 | Dispatch
A coalition of conservation groups is challenging a draft Forest Service decision to allow a Virginia energy company to build a $5 billion, 600-mile-long natural gas pipeline that would cross two national forests. The Forest Service issued its draft decision in July....
by FSEEE | Aug 29, 2017 | Dispatch
Here’s some new buzz about how bees benefit from wildfires. Preliminary findings by a team of researchers at Oregon State University indicate that bees thrive in the openings created by high-severity wildfires. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that...
by FSEEE | Aug 24, 2017 | Dispatch
No national monument designations will be rescinded but the Trump administration should shrink the size of a “handful” of monuments, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said today in comments to the Associated Press. Today is the deadline for Zinke to send a report to Trump...
