Camping Restrictions Considered for Colorado Wilderness

Camping Restrictions Considered for Colorado Wilderness

Forest Service officials in Colorado are laying plans to limit camping in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, which holds some of the most iconic mountain scenery in the nation. The number of visits to the most popular destinations in the wilderness area nearly...
Objections to Olympic National Forest War Games Rejected

Objections to Olympic National Forest War Games Rejected

Olympic National Forest officials have largely dismissed objections filed by more than 100 people opposed to a Navy plan to conduct electronic warfare drills on the forest. In a letter dated March 29, forest supervisor Reta Laford wrote that the Forest Service’s draft...
Trump Rescinds Obama Environmental Protection Measures

Trump Rescinds Obama Environmental Protection Measures

Donald Trump’s assault on Obama administration environmental protection measures continued this week as the president signed an executive order to remove regulations governing coal, oil and gas production, including on public lands. One of the measures in the...
Forest Service Asks Public’s Help with Trail Maintenance

Forest Service Asks Public’s Help with Trail Maintenance

How do you maintain 158,000 miles of trails on a shoestring budget? Ask for volunteers. The U.S. Forest Service manages more miles of trails than any other government agency. But with firefighting consuming an ever-growing share of the budget, agency officials are...