by FSEEE | Aug 22, 2017 | Dispatch
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has named a fellow Southerner as the next chief of the Forest Service. Tony Tooke, who is regional forester for the agency’s southern region, will succeed Tom Tidwell, whose last day on the job will be September 1. Tooke, who grew...
by FSEEE | Aug 18, 2017 | Dispatch
The Trump administration announced today that U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell is retiring from the agency. His last day in office will be September 1. “From the start, we have relied on Chief Tidwell’s experience and counsel, drawing on his years of experience...
by FSEEE | Aug 15, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
by FSEEE | Aug 11, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
by FSEEE | Aug 8, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
