by FSEEE | Sep 10, 2020 | In the News
By Mary Forgione, Christopher Reynolds — With California menaced by fires and shrouded in smoke, state and federal officials have now closed 30 state parks, Highway 1 south of Big Sur and all of the state’s national forests. State parks officials posted most recent...
by FSEEE | Aug 14, 2020 | In the News
“The Forest Service’s decision today authorizes one of the largest timber sales in Wyoming’s history by allowing timber cutting and other actions on up to 288,000 acres of the Medicine Bow National Forest over the next 15 years,” said Adam Rissien, ReWilding Advocate...
by FSEEE | Jul 9, 2020 | In the News
By Jerd Smith — Forty years after the Holy Cross Wilderness Area was created, an early effort to explore tapping its water supplies has generated more than 500 comments to the U.S. Forest Service. Aurora and Colorado Springs, which own and operate the only reservoir...
by FSEEE | Jun 29, 2020 | In the News
By Rebecca August — The Forest Service has extended the deadline, from June 30 to August 14, for the public to comment on its proposal to cut down trees and chaparral across 755 acres deep in the Ventura County, Calif., backcountry. The move follows a letter sent to...
by FSEEE | Jun 17, 2020 | In the News
By Bobby Magill, Bloomberg Law — Oil, logging, mining, and grazing will be the priorities of national forests and grasslands, with expedited environmental oversight, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told the U.S. Forest Service Friday. Perdue‘s memo announced a...
