by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
Wildfire season in the West has barely begun, but across the nation it’s already been a busy year in terms of acres burned. Virtually all of those acres, however, are on state or private land. Nearly 2.2 million acres burned through the first three months of 2017,...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
by FSEEE | Apr 23, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
by FSEEE | Mar 23, 2017 | Dispatch
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...
by FSEEE | Mar 16, 2017 | Dispatch
Scientific research and environmental protection programs would suffer major cuts under a proposed budget outline released this morning by the Trump administration. By percentage, Trump’s budget calls for double-digit reductions in funding for the Environmental...
