by FSEEE | Nov 22, 2016 | Dispatch
November 22, 2016 — Forest Service officials this week gave a thumbs up to a controversial proposal to expand Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin ski area, including adding amenities designed to attract more summertime visitors. The expansion will add about 338 acres to the...
by FSEEE | Nov 18, 2016 | Dispatch
November 18, 2016 — A wide, wild swath of land in Montana sacred to the Blackfeet Nation gained protection from oil and gas drilling this week when Department of Interior officials canceled 15 energy exploration leases. The Badger-Two Medicine area spans 132,000 acres...
by FSEEE | Nov 14, 2016 | Dispatch
November 14, 2016 — During the long, bruising presidential campaign, relatively little was said about the management of public lands. In the days since the election, conservationists have expressed widespread dismay and fear that a Donald Trump administration will...
by FSEEE | Nov 7, 2016 | Dispatch
November 7, 2016 — When General George Armstrong Custer crossed the Black Hills in the summer of 1874, he noticed large swaths of dead forests. Contemporary ecologists believe mountain pine beetles did the damage. For more than a century, foresters have marked the ebb...
by FSEEE | Oct 22, 2016 | Dispatch
Last September, Forest Service officials approved a logging project that carved a 30-mile-long, 300-foot-wide swath through Washington’s North Cascade Mountains, purportedly to protect two small communities from a distant wildfire that would soon go out on its own. In...
