by FSEEE | Feb 1, 2018 | Sound Off
At 17 million acres, the Tongass is America’s largest national forest. Its 19 wilderness areas and two national monuments draw a million cruise-ship visitors annually, employing more than 7,400 recreation industry workers, and provide habitat that supports another...
by FSEEE | Jan 17, 2018 | Sound Off
Cliven Bundy is a free man. His cattle are free to roam the public estate. More than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees remains unpaid. The self-styled militia crowd is emboldened. Public land managers are demoralized. Somebody, please, put a tent over this circus. A...
by FSEEE | Dec 18, 2017 | Sound Off
Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers had better be ready for a lot of detours in Oregon this summer. In November and December, after fire season-ending rain and snowstorms, the Forest Service issued orders closing three of Oregon’s most popular trail segments...
by FSEEE | Dec 8, 2017 | Sound Off
Could allowing mountain bikes in federally designated wilderness areas lead to world peace? That particular argument was not made during a House subcommittee hearing yesterday to consider H.R. 1349, a bill that would amend the 1964 Wilderness Act to allow mountain...
by FSEEE | Oct 6, 2017 | Sound Off
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has made no secret of his desire to acquire the U.S. Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture. Zinke’s zeal for restoring the Forest Service to Interior, where during its earliest years it resided, earned him a scolding from...
