by FSEEE | Aug 28, 2024 | Briefly, In the News
The Point Fire burned 1,200 acres in Sonoma County in June. Lago di Merlo Vineyards lost a few vines to the fire, but it faces an uncertain future after an errant fire retardant drop painted a 20-acre swath of grapevines bright red. The Press Democrat reports that...
by FSEEE | Aug 17, 2024 | Dispatch, In the News
Federal Judge Dana Christensen halted the Horsefly Vegetation Project in the Little Belt Mountains in Lewis and Clark National Forest. Judge Kathleen DeSoto had ruled that both the Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hadn’t properly considered a...
by FSEEE | Aug 9, 2024 | Dispatch, In the News
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise is the pro-Trump playbook produced as the centerpiece of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda. The 920-page manifesto lays out a plan “to address and reform the failings of big government and an undemocratic...
by FSEEE | Aug 2, 2024 | In the News
Caroll Burns Williams Jr., who died March 1 at the age of 94, was the first African American scientist hired by the Forest Service. He was also the first African American to earn a doctorate in forestry and entomology and one of the first African American faculty...
by FSEEE | Mar 7, 2024 | Dispatch, In the News
The Northwest Forest Plan — the world’s largest ecosystem management plan — was adopted in 1994 after President Bill Clinton essentially imposed the Plan on the Forest Service and other reluctant federal agencies. Of the Washington, Oregon, and California lands...