PROPOSED NEW FOREST SERVICE PLANNING RULES DRASTICALLY REDUCE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In December 2002, the Bush Administration, bowing apparently to pressure from the timber industry, issued new draft regulations that would drastically change all this so as to more-or-less eliminate public participation in the vitally important process of Forest Service planning. The proposed rules would exempt Forest Plans from the NEPA requirements for public commentary on a draft plan containing analysis of the environmental impacts of a number of possible alternatives thereby drastically reducing public participation in the process. If these bureaucratic regulations were to go into effect, Forest Plans would not be open to criticism or challenge but would be issued with no alternatives. As Gale Dick of Save Our Canyons said, "The plans laid down by the Forest Service would be 'Take it or leave it - with no way to leave it.' The Forest Service would be, in effect, thumbing its nose at Congress and assuming the role of infallibility."
The proposed planning rules would supposedly avoid the requirements of NEPA by making the Forest Plans themselves such flexible and adaptive documents that they would not be applicable to any specific project proposed for Forest Service Lands. Such non-specific Forest Plans, it is thought, would not trigger the NEPA Environmental Impact Study process. "These generic, 'adaptive' plans would be impotent documents. It would fill the requirement to have a plan without really having one", said Tom Hale, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons. "It opens the door wide to piecemeal planning and encourages the approval of unsound proposals."
The upshot of these proposed regulations would be to make the national forests much more vulnerable to logging, mining, ORV use, rampant ski-area-related real estate development, and other environmentally damaging activities.
This is a truly alarming move that regards our national forests as
mere commodities with little or no regard for wildlife, ecosystems,
watersheds or the people who rely on and enjoy these resources. It also
exhibits contempt for the First Amendment that grants the citizens of
this country, the owners of the national forests, the right "to
petition the government for a redress of grievances".
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Articles
(Op-Ed)
A Misdirected Forest Strategy
The New York Times
(free
registration required) August 12, 2003. President Bush
visits an Arizona fire site to drum up support for his Healthy Forests
initiative, a strategy which "has not improved with age"; while the
plan increases US Forest Service funding, it somehow works out to
increased potential for commercial logging on millions of forested
acres--and weakened public comment and judicial review--while making
all the wrong arguments.
Bush
Tilts Forest Policy
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
10, 2003. Rebuffed by a divided Congress last fall, (the
Bush) administration is now busy overturning Clinton-era protections
with sweeping new agency rules -- changes that environmentalists charge
will open the federal lands to much more aggressive logging.
To
Save the Forest, the Trees Must Go
The New York Times
(free
registration required) December 15, 2002. In the name of
science, the United States Forest Service has proposed the experimental
logging of half a million acres in two forests in the Sierra Nevada to
see how it will affect the habitat of the California spotted owl and
the ferocity of forest fires.
Easier
Logging Rules in Works
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 28, 2002. The Bush administration is proposing less
emphasis on wildlife preservation and other environmental concerns when
deciding how much logging or recreation to allow in the 192 million
acres of federal forests and grasslands.
Agency
Proposes Relaxing Rules on Logging in National Forests
The New York Times
(free
registration required) November 27, 2002. The Bush
administration proposed today to give managers of the 155 national
forests more discretion to approve logging and commercial activities
with less evaluation of potential damage to the environment.
Politics
Returns in Forest Fire Debate
The New York Times
(free
registration required) September 19, 2002. Even on a day
when a late-summer rain coats the arthritic woods, it is clear that
Idaho Panhandle National Forest is sick.
Western
Fire Plan Up in Smoke?
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 5, 2002. The much-ballyhooed National Fire Plan
that Gov. Mike Leavitt helped craft through his principles of "en
libra" -- Latin for, roughly, "coming to a balance" -- is scheduled for
a "de-en libra-ing" today by Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Utah.
Disease
Hits Firs and Redwoods, Posing Risk of Economic Damage
The New York Times
(free
registration required) September 5, 2002. Douglas fir, one
of the nation's most economically important timber species, and
California's coast redwood are infected with the fast-spreading new
disease known as sudden oak death syndrome, scientists reported
yesterday.
Forest
Thinning Challenged as Tactic to Control Fires
The New York Times
(free
registration required) August 27, 2002. Even as President
Bush urges increased thinning of national forests, some scientists
caution that there is little evidence to show that thinning will
prevent fires at the catastrophic scales seen in the West this summer.
Forest
Plan May Prove Too Costly
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
26, 2002. President Bush's proposal to thin the nation's
forests to prevent forest fires won cheers from fellow Republicans in
timber country. But the high costs of thinning forests and the strong
political opposition to both cutting old-growth trees and suspending
environmental laws could prove formidable obstacles.
Wildfire
costs could pinch other projects
Deseret News
July 29,
2002. Funds diverted by the Forest Service to fight
wildfires could affect some Utah forest projects.
Forest
Service Panel Will Study Fires and Thinning Policies
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
12, 2002. The Forest Service will form a special panel to
investigate the fires raging across the West in hopes of finding
consensus in the hot debate about forest-thinning programs.
Couple's
efforts pay off
The Denver Post
July 11,
2002. Hayman spared home due to preventive steps
Report
Claims Appeals Stalled Fire Control
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
11, 2002. Nearly half the projects designed to reduce fire
risks in national forests since 2001 were stalled by appeals, usually
by environmentalists seeking to stop logging, an internal Forest
Service report says.
Prescribed-burn
law under fire
The Denver Post
July 9,
2002. Three years ago, Gov. Bill Owens signed a law making
it tougher to thin Colorado's national forests with fire.
Siren
song of the forest stays strong
The Denver Post
June 30,
2002. Explosive growth being forecast for fire-prone
counties despite risk
Idea
of Fighting Fire With Fire Wins Converts
The New York Times
(free
registration required) June 30, 2002. "That would scare
anyone to death when the government says, `I'm here to burn down the
forest, trust me,' " said Bob Foster, who owns the Lost Valley Guest
Ranch near here, surrounded by Pike National Forest.
Era
of the Big Fire Is Kindled at West's Doors
The New York Times
(free
registration required) June 23, 2002. The fires came early
this year to the West, chasing people out of valleys in Colorado,
rousting animals from late slumber in Alaska, choking the sky with
smoke in Arizona woods that have so little moisture they seem
kiln-dried.
Forest
Chief Slams Gridlock
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
13, 2002. The U.S. Forest Service is plagued by excessive
analysis, cumbersome regulations and an overabundance of public
involvement, the agency's chief says in a new report to Congress.
Scientists'
Plea: Curb Logging
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
17, 2002. More than 200 scientists around the nation have
asked President Bush to halt commercial logging on national forests and
to begin restoring damaged habitat and native species.
Scientists
Seek Logging Ban on U.S.-Owned Land
The New York Times
(free
registration required) April 16, 2002. A letter signed by
221 scientists and sent to President Bush today calls for ending all
logging on federally owned forests, arguing that the value of the
timber produced was minuscule compared with the environmental damage
caused by the harvests.
Timber
Company Reduces Cutting of Old-Growth Trees
The New York Times
(free
registration required) March 27, 2002. Boise, the giant
timber company, has begun telling its employees and customers that it
will no longer cut centuries-old trees in some undisturbed forests on
public and private lands.
Nevada's
Fight Over Trout May Be Headed to Court
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
22, 2002. Forest Service Supervisor Bob Vaught expects to
end up in court regardless of what the agency decides in a lingering
dispute over the threatened bull trout and the rebuilding of a road in
a national forest in Nevada.
Idaho
Conservationists Wary of Bush's 'Charter Forests' Budget Proposal
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 18, 2002. President Bush's budget proposal to
create "charter forests" has several years to go before it catches up
with Idaho's efforts to some national forest management away from the
federal government.
Accord
reached over Bitterroot logging
Deseret News
February 10,
2002. The U.S. Forest Service and environmentalists have
reached a compromise that will allow at least some logging of burned
timber in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest, but about one-third of
what the Forest Service wanted.
Forest
Service and Environmentalists Settle Logging Dispute
The New York Times
(free
registration required) February 8, 2002. After nearly three
days of court-ordered negotiations, the United States Forest Service
agreed to reduce substantially the size of a timber sale on large
tracts of the Bitterroot National Forest that burned in wildfires in
2000.
Invaders
Reshape the American Landscape
The New York Times
(free
registration required) February 5, 2002. Dr. Don Goheen, a
plant pathologist with the United States Forest Service in Medford,
Ore., who works with Port Orford cedars, echoed the comments of others,
saying: "These introduced diseases are bad news. We're run ragged by
them."
Is
Logging Bane or Balm? Plan Stirs Debate
The New York Times
(free
registration required) January 29, 2002. ...in its struggle
to cut and sell trees burned in the enormous fires of the summer of
2000, the United States Forest Service finds itself trying to convince
environmentalists that careful logging is not only benign, but critical
to the forests' recovery and protection.
Judge
halts plan to log Montana burn area
Deseret News
January 8,
2002. A federal judge issued a court order barring the U.S.
Forest Service from logging thousands of acres of burned timber from a
national forest in Montana, saying the agency had violated its own
rules in approving the plan.
Forest
Service chief revising 3 policies
Deseret News
December 30,
2001. He says changes needed to clear up confusion.
Status
of Clinton's forest policies
Deseret News
December 30,
2001. A look at the status of three major policies governing
national forests, approved by the Clinton administration in its final
months
Judge
Blocks Salvage Logging
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 19, 2002. A federal judge Tuesday temporarily
blocked the U.S. Forest Service from logging a fire-stricken Montana
forest, after environmentalists filed a suit earlier in the day
accusing the Bush administration of breaking the law in approving the
project.
Forest-user
fees ruled improper
Deseret News
December 12,
2001. A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Forest Service had
no authority to collect users' fees at trailheads, pullouts and other
sites around the Northwest from 1996 until November of this year.
Plan
to Salvage Burned Forest Brings Controversy
The New York Times
(free
registration required) December 9, 2001. ...efforts by the
United States Forest Service to hasten the process to salvage more than
46,000 acres of that burned timber for wood products and to protect the
forest have sparked controversy.
Escalante
Mill Faces Closure
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 9, 2001. A key factor is foreign exchange rates.
Even though sawmills outside the United States are often less
efficient, domestic mills cannot process raw logs at a cost low enough
to level out the U.S. dollar's high value overseas.
Logging
Plan for West's Burned Forests Incites a Debate
The New York Times
(free
registration required) July 22, 2001. The Forest Service,
which manages most of the forest land in the valley, is considering
letting loggers harvest as many as 73,000 acres of blackened trees that
are standing like a ghost forest on the burned hillsides.
Westerners
Move Toward Learning to Live With Wildfires
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
4, 2001. Images of last summer's wildfires -- the worst in
50 years -- have not stopped the steady migration of retirees and
commuters into the woods of the West.
Ex-Timber
Lobbyist Named to USDA Post
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
22, 2001. A former top lobbyist for the timber industry was
nominated by President Bush on Thursday to an Agriculture Department
post overseeing the Forest Service and land conservation programs.
Pro,
Cons Of Privatizing Federal Land
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
5, 2001. ..opposing views were expressed over the weekend by
Darrel Knuffke of The Wilderness Society and Terry Anderson of the
Political Economy Research Center (PERC) at the Outdoor Writers
Association of America conference here.
Forest
protection rules blocked
Federal judge issues 2 injunctions
San
Francisco Chronicle
June 4, 2001. A federal judge in Idaho blocked the U.S.
Forest Service yesterday from implementing rules banning road building,
mining and other development in 58 million acres of national forest,
angering environmentalists and bringing cheers from the timber
industry.
Forest
chief seeks broader ranger role
Deseret News
May 21,
2001. New U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth, a former
Utahn, wants to give local rangers more power and limit "top-down"
directives from Washington.
Wyoming
Sues to Block Roadless Forest Initiative`
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
19, 2001. The state filed a lawsuit Friday to thwart a
pending policy that would prevent road construction in a third of the
nation's national forests.
Grooming
the Forests With Flames, Managing wildfires is part of Forest Service's
new policy
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
19, 2001. The National Forest Service has modified its
forest plans to include the option to "manage" Utah wildfires rather
than simply fight them.
Wildfire
Expert Has Radical Solution to West's Problem: Let It Burn
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
17, 2001. Pyne argues that contrary to the goals of timber
companies and suburban developers, fire is an environmental necessity.
Administration
Remains Silent On Ruling Reversing Road Ban
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
16, 2001. Forest Service chief Dale Bosworth said Tuesday he
doesn't know whether the Justice Department will appeal an Idaho
judge's decision to block a sweeping road-building ban on a third of
the national forest lands.
Fire
Crews Preparing for Hot Season
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
12, 2001. The summer solstice is more than a month away, but
fire crews already are gearing up to battle seasonal wildfires
throughout Utah.
The
West Is Culling Forests That Fueled Fires of the Past
The New York Times
(free
registration required) May 12, 2001. With memories of last
year's wildfires still vivid across the West, men and women armed with
chain saws and an infusion of taxpayer money are now racing against
further conflagration by cutting down millions of the trees that
surround towns like this one.
Judge
blocks rule restricting roads in many national forests
Deseret News
May 11,
2001. 2 Utah congressmen hail delay of Clinton 'roadless'
regulation
Federal
Judge Blocks Road Ban in Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
11, 2001. A federal judge in Idaho blocked a ban on road
building in a third of America's national forests, saying the Clinton
administration rule needed to be amended or it would cause "irreparable
harm."
Judge
Bars New Forest Rules, Citing Potential Local Harm
The New York Times
(free
registration required) May 11, 2001. A federal judge in
Idaho blocked the Clinton administration's forest-protection plan
today, saying that if the rules went into effect as scheduled on
Saturday, they could cause "irreparable long-term harm" to local
communities.
Forest
Service Outlines Wilderness Plans
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 9,
2001. It's time to speak up now.
Clinton-Era
Roadless Rule Will Take Effect This Weekend
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 9,
2001. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth assured members of
a Senate committee Tuesday that a sweeping ban on road-building on a
third of the nation's forests will take effect Saturday, even as the
administration works to revise the rule.
Forest
Information
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 9,
2001.
2
sides find fault with plan for roads
Deseret News
May 5,
2001. Environmentalists and the timber industry - on
opposite sides of a sweeping Clinton-era road ban in many national
forests - both found fault with a Bush plan announced Friday to
maintain the protections while a revision is crafted.
Clinton's
Forest-Roads Ban Intact Until Further Notice
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 5,
2001. The Bush administration will leave in place a sweeping
ban on roads and logging in about a third of the national forests, but
will begin changing the rule next month so local forest managers have
more control over how its restrictions are applied, the White House
announced Friday.
Utah
Environmentalists Unhappy With Decision
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 5,
2001. "Local control is a Bush administration code word for
handing America's last pristine areas over to industry," said Wayne
Hoskisson, Sierra Club's Utah Chapter public lands chair.
Forests
won't get new roads
Deseret News
May 4,
2001. The Bush administration will keep in place a ban on
road-building in much of the nation's federal forest lands while it
revises the regulations to give more say to local officials on forest
maintenance.
Bush
Will Modify Ban on New Roads in Federal Lands
The New York Times
(free
registration required) May 4, 2001. The White House will put
in place Clinton administration regulations intended to protect
national forests from development but will allow those rules to be
amended case by case, senior administration officials said today.
Bush
Facing Decision on Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 2,
2001. At issue is an important environmental question: what
to do about the Clinton administration's proposal to declare 58.5
million acres of roadless national forests off limits to timber and
mining companies.
Utahns
in U.S. House Tackling Clinton Roadless Rule
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 2,
2001. Utahns have been among those weighing in on the
roadless-rule controversy in Washington.
White
House Considering Plan to Void Clinton Rule on Forests
The New York Times
(free
registration required) May 2, 2001. The White House is
considering a move to delay indefinitely a Clinton administration plan
to put a third of national forest land off limits to new development,
officials said today.
Clinton
Rules on Ecosystem to Get Review, Forest Service report says
regulations were impossible to put in place successfully
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
28, 2001. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman has agreed to
review Clinton-era regulations that directed forest managers to put
ecosystem health above all other concerns.
GOP
Wants Roadless Rule Rolled Back
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
27, 2001. Western Republicans are urging President Bush to
revise the Clinton administration's ban on road building in national
forests so decisions are made on a forest-by-forest basis.
Utah
to Sue On Logging, Road Bans
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
20, 2001. After three years of planning, 600 public hearings
and more than a million and a half comments, the U.S. Forest Service
enacted a rule prohibiting road building and commercial logging on 58
million acres of public land.
Ex-Utah
Land Manager Is Named Forest Service Boss
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
13, 2001. Dale Bosworth will guide the controversial agency
through a period of long-range planning that will affect the use of
public lands for decades to come.
In
Fires' Afterglow, Nature Runs Its Course
The New York Times
(free
registration required) April 10, 2001. "Human efforts to
mitigate exacerbate the impacts," he said. "The worst is salvage
logging. Roading intercepts the flow of water, roads blow out and wash
into the stream, and wood is important over 20 years as it washes into
the stream."
Roadless
Forest Plan Survives Challenge
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
6, 2001. A federal judge said Thursday the U.S. Forest
Service violated public disclosure requirements before approving a
Clinton administration plan to put 58 million acres of roadless forest
land nationwide off-limits to logging.
Urging
Bush to Resist Pressure, Forest Chief Resigns
The New York Times
(free
registration required) March 28, 2001. In a letter of
resignation, the chief of the Forest Service urged the Bush
administration today to "withstand political pressure" and leave in
place rules that would bar road building across some 60 million acres
of federally owned land.
Clinton's
Forest Service Chief to Step Down
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
28, 2001. Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck, a proponent of
a sweeping land-use plan the Bush administration may now be trying to
undo, announced Tuesday he is stepping down after 25 years of federal
service.
Official
Unsure of Rebuilding Nevada Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
22, 2001. The federal official who might have more say than
anyone about whether Elko County rebuilds a washed out road in a
national forest remains skeptical it can be done.
Agencies
Block Clinton's Salmon Protection Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
22, 2001. Two federal agencies have blocked a last-minute
move by the Clinton administration to help Pacific salmon east of the
Cascades, as President Bush continues trying to chip away at his
predecessor's environmental legacy.
Environmentalists
Question Move To Delay Roadless Forest Hearing
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
17, 2001. The Bush administration asked a federal court
Friday to postpone a hearing on former President Clinton's ban on
road-building and logging in a third of the nation's federal
forestland.
Forest
Rules Postponed Again by Bush
The New York Times
(free
registration required) March 17, 2001. The Bush
administration signaled today that it might consider a settlement that
could significantly scale back the effect of Clinton administration
rules putting a third of the national forests off limits to
development.
Forest
Service: Road-Building Ban Won't Hinder Fire Prevention Efforts
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
15, 2001. The Clinton administration's road-building ban on
vast tracts of national forests will not interfere with efforts to
reduce fire risks, a Forest Service official said Wednesday.
Group
Says Deal Hurts Bull Trout
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
13, 2001. Trout Unlimited leaders say the Forest Service is
negotiating away federally mandated protection of the threatened bull
trout in a deal that could allow Elko County to rebuild a controversial
road in a national forest.
Forest
Service Under Fire Over Ski-Resort Deal
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 27, 2001. The U.S. Forest Service, criticized in
recent years for bowing to the ski industry in Colorado and Utah, now
is under attack in Wyoming over a deal that would give a Colorado
businessman title to 120 acres of the Targhee National Forest.
Environmentalists
Critical of Partnerships Between Companies, Fed Land Managers
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 1, 2001 "When the Forest Service partners with Leave No Trace,
and Leave No Trace partners with Subaru, there is a presumed
relationship between the Forest Service and Subaru," says Scott Silver
of Oregon-based Wild Wilderness..
Agency
Reassesses Impact of Timber Policy
The New York Times
(free
registration required) January 10, 2001. A new policy
banning the cutting of old- growth trees in the national forests would
affect no more than 20 percent of the timber harvest scheduled for
auction across the country in the coming year, Forest Service officials
said today.
In
Challenge to Bush, Forest Chief Bars Logging of the Oldest Trees
The New York Times
(free
registration required) January 9, 2001. In a clear challenge
to the incoming Bush administration, the head of the Forest Service
issued a policy today barring the cutting of old-growth timber on
public lands.
Forest
Closures Affect 4 Million Acres in Utah; Hansen Calls Plan 'Reckless'
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 6, 2001. President Clinton declared nearly a third
of the country's federal forest land off-limits to most logging,
including some 4 million acres in Utah.
Hansen
vows a lands fight
Deseret News
January 4,
2001. Rep. Jim Hansen, who was expected to be named Thursday
as chairman of the House Resources Committee, says he wants to use that
post to turn back many Clinton administration actions on public lands.
Foundations
Give $10M to Influence Roadless Policy
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 3, 2001. A dozen foundations have given nearly $10
million to environmental groups seeking to influence President
Clinton's proposals for protecting roadless areas, the Oregonian
reported Tuesday.
Tours
Help Visitors Connect With Forest
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 2, 2001. Volunteers wearing bright yellow Tour With
a Ranger jackets can be seen each weekend at Alta, Snowbird and
Brighton offering 1:30 p.m. tours on beginner runs that explain such
things as tree identification.
Fire
season left a costly aftermath
Deseret News
January 1,
2001. Agencies will spend millions to fight erosion and
replant forests
Firefighting
wastes millions, critics say
Deseret News
December 17,
2000. The nation's wildfire program wastes millions on
ineffective techniques designed to calm the public's nerves, according
to a review of federal firefighting strategies by a taxpayer watchdog
group.
A
Hot Concept: Fighting Fire With Fire
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 17, 2000. Fight fire with fire. It's an old saying
that has become central to the new thinking about Western wildfires.
U.S.
boosts wildfire funding
Deseret News
December 9,
2000. With a pot of new money from Congress after a record
season of wildfires, the U.S. Forest Service is hiring extra
firefighters and boosting prescribed burns and thinning operations to
prevent future blazes.
Extra
Funding Helps the Forest Service Beef Up Its Ranks
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 8, 2000. With a pot of new money from Congress
after a record season of wildfires, the U.S. Forest Service is hiring
extra firefighters and boosting prescribed burns and thinning
operations to prevent future blazes.
No
Tree Permits In Several BLM (sic) Areas This Year
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 30, 2000. The Logan, Ogden and Salt Lake ranger
districts of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest will not offer tree
permits again this year.
Feds
Trim Species List For Loggers
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 22, 2000. The federal government has revised
guidelines for protecting rare plants and animals that are part of the
Northwest's old-growth forests, clearing the way for increased logging.
GOP
Says Roadless PlanMay Mar Forest Health
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 21, 2000. Foresters who want to build roads in
roadless areas to prevent wildfires and bug infestations would be
unable to do so under President Clinton's roadless plan, Republicans
said Monday, citing a General Accounting Office report.
Others
skeptical edicts will survive court suits, possible Bush presidency
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 19, 2000. With President Clinton's roadless plan
nearly final, the administration has one more proposal that could
forever leave his imprint on national forests -- a rule making it
tougher for foresters to add to the 380,000-mile road system in
national forests.
Clinton
Approves State-Federal Forest Health Partnership
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 13, 2000. President Clinton this week approved a
measure that commits the federal government to a 10-year collaborative
effort with the states to improve forest health and prevent wildfires.
Coaltion
Seeks Plan For Healing Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 26, 2000. With the embers of this year's wildfires
still smoldering across the West, the warring factions that have fought
for decades over what to do with America's public lands have finally
agreed on one thing: The forests are sick.
Wildfire-Burned
Guvs Change Views on Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 9, 2000. Western governors, some of whom have
criticized the Clinton administration in the wake of this year's huge
wildfires, reached a meeting of the minds Monday with the president's
top two natural-resources advisers.
Plan
Proposed for Forest Recreation
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 23, 2000. The Clinton administration proposed a
national forest recreation plan Friday that would spend hundreds of
millions for upgrades, would overhaul fees and would create aggressive
partnering with local governments and private interests. The proposal
"really defines where the U.S. Forest Service is going in the next
decade," said Michael Dombeck, the agency's chief.
Revised
Report Says Wildfires' Link To Logging Cannot Be Determined
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 23, 2000. Congressional researchers who last month
found little or no relationship between this summer's massive wildfires
and the decline in timber harvests now say the possibility of a link
"cannot be determined from the available data."
Feds
Told to Study Fire Impact Before Finishing Land Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 22, 2000. Federal officials drafting a massive
land-use plan covering 63 million acres in four states must report to
Congress on the impact of this summer's fires before completing the
plan, under an amendment approved by a House-Senate conference
committee on Thursday.
Western
leaders support fire plan
Deseret News
September 19,
2000. Overlooking differences for now, six Western governors
strongly endorsed Clinton administration proposals for fighting
wildfires and preventing future devastating blazes.
GOP
blaming Clinton for wildfire problems
Deseret News
September 16,
2000. With one of the West's worst wildfire seasons coming
to a close, Republican senators turned up the political heat on the
Clinton administration, blaming its timber policies for the destruction
of millions of acres of forests.
Clinton
Administration Looks to Thin Additional 455,000 Acres of Federal Lands
Next Year
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 16, 2000. The Clinton administration wants to
clear brush and trees on another 455,000 acres of federal lands next
year, a 33 percent increase over what agencies planned before this
summer's brutal wildfires, officials said Friday.
GOP
Skeptical of Wildfire Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 14, 2000. Congressional Republicans on Wednesday
faulted President Clinton's wildfire prevention plan as too vague and
questioned whether the administration will carry it out.
Group
Seeks Less Fire Risk
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 11, 2000. The Flagstaff project aims to restore
the forest's ecosystem by thinning dense thickets of trees, regrowing
meadows that slow fires and reintroducing low-level blazes to burn off
fuels.
Clinton
is seeking $1.6 billion for wildfire prevention
Deseret News
September 10,
2000. As wildfires rage in nine states, President Clinton
said Saturday he will ask Congress for $1.6 billion to pay for getting
rid of forest underbrush to reduce the risk of fires.
Clinton
Seeks $1.6B to Thin U.S. Forests, Undergrowth fed summer fires, he says
The Salt Lake Tribune
September 10, 2000. President Clinton proposed spending
about $1.6 billion to help communities recover from the forest fires
that have scorched the West this summer and to thin millions of acres
of federal forests in hopes of preventing future blazes.
Feds'
policies fed fires, leaders say
Deseret News
September 2,
2000. Four Republican governors, including Utah's Mike
Leavitt, want to convene an emergency meeting of the Western Governors
Association to confront Clinton administration officials about this
summer's wildfires and related federal forest management policies.
Man,
nature abet wildfires
Deseret News
August 27,
2000. Smokey Bear effort is linked to tree density
Shovel
brigade honors Leavitt for roads fight
Deseret News
August 26,
2000. Gov. Mike Leavitt will be able to move a little more
dirt on his ranch thanks to a Nevada group formed to fight the federal
government on land issues.
Governor
Given Shovel by Nevada Road Protesters
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
26, 2000. A group of Nevadans on Friday awarded Gov. Mike
Leavitt the "Golden Shovel Award" for his efforts to keep roads open on
federal lands in Utah.
Forest
Service Wants Trees Removed to Cut Risk
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
23, 2000. The Forest Service wants to boost efforts to
remove small trees and brush near Western communities in response to
wildfires raging this summer, agency officials said Tuesday.
Forest
Service to Limit Access to Disputed Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
18, 2000. Upping the ante in a fight over property rights,
the Forest Service intends to cut off vehicle access to a dirt road in
remote Elko County and undo the work of residents who reopened part of
the road near Jarbidge on the Fourth of July.
Attacks
on land managers down after a 5-year rise
Deseret News
August 11,
2000. Attacks against federal land managers dropped sharply
last year after rising steadily since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing,
according to a nonprofit group.
Feds
Sue Shovel Brigade Over July 4 Rally
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
11, 2000. The federal government has sued a citizens group
for trespassing in its Independence Day rally intended to assert local
rights on a washed-out dirt road along a remote stream that is home to
the threatened bull trout.
Wildfires
Spark Suit By 6 Utah Counties
The Salt Lake Tribune
August
9, 2000. The U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife
Service could face a lawsuit alleging they violated the Endangered
Species Act by failing to take measures to protect animals from
widespread wildfires.
Forest
Service under fire
Deseret News
August 9,
2000. Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from
environmentalists - suing the federal government for not protecting
endangered species.
Leavitt
Attacks Forest Service Proposal
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
21, 2000. Gov. Mike Leavitt has launched a scathing attack
against the Forest Service's proposal to ban new roads in roadless
areas of national forests.
Activists
for Roadless Forests Converge on Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
18, 2000. Hoping President Clinton will stop to smell the
grass roots, environmentalists Monday celebrated their biggest-ever
public-comment campaign by disgorging nearly a million postcards and
letters on the doorstep of the U.S. Forest Service's offices at the
Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building.
Mountain
of comments backs roadless land
Deseret News
July 17,
2000. Environmentalists from around the country rallied at
the Salt Lake Federal Building Monday to present 700,000 comments to
the U.S. Forest Service in support of protecting roadless land in
national forests.
Federal
Land Swaps Cost Public Millions, Study Says
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
14, 2000. The federal government has lost millions of
dollars from land exchanges, often buying land for more than it is
worth and giving up land for less than its market value, congressional
auditors reported Wednesday.
Environmentalists
Not Hot on Clinton's Roadless Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
12, 2000. As Senate Republicans prepare to try to stop
President Clinton's plan to place 43 million acres of federal forests
off limits to development, environmentalists Tuesday reminded Clinton
that they don't like the plan either.
Feds
to Determine Whether Shovel Brigade Broke the Law
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
6, 2000. Federal law officers accompanied government
biologists to northeastern Nevada on Wednesday to assess whether a
citizen revolt on a dirt road in a national forest harmed a threatened
fish in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Activists
Lay Claim to Contested Nevada Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
5, 2000. Hundreds of people joined together on Independence
Day to hoist a huge boulder they dubbed the "Liberty Rock" and lay
claim to a remote dirt road in defiance of the U.S. Forest Service.
Protesters
lay claim to Nevada road
Deseret News
July 4,
2000. Hundreds of people from around the West and as far
away as Rhode Island traveled to this remote outpost over the
Independence Day holiday to lay claim to a dirt road and rally against
federal control of natural resources.
Leaders
Urge Shovel Brigade Protesters to Use Restraint
The Salt Lake Tribune
July
1, 2000. Nevada's top two Republican elected officials have
urged restraint at next week's citizens' rally aimed at reclaiming a
remote dirt road in Elko County.
Judge's
Refusal to Stop Road Protest Gives Nevada Shovel Brigade a Boost
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
30, 2000. Plans for a Fourth of July protest over federal
control of rural lands gathered momentum Thursday after a judge here
refused to stop a rally in rugged northern Nevada.
Environmentalists,
Off-Roaders 'Agree': They Don't Like New Forest Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
27, 2000. Off-highway vehicle users claim President
Clinton's plan to preserve much of the remaining 60 million acres of
U.S. Forest Service roadless areas will rob them of their right to
access public lands. Environmentalists maintain the proposal currently
being debated in public hearings throughout the nation, including some
this week in Utah, does not do enough to protect wild places.
Songs,
cheers, jeers for forest plan
Deseret News
June 21,
2000. Nothing near a consensus at hearing on Clinton
proposal
Compromise
Outlined for Disputed Nevada Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
23, 2000. A tentative agreement in the dispute over the
South Canyon Road would allow reopening of the dirt trail that leads to
the Jarbidge wilderness, but under federal supervision rather than
county.
Deal
Is Reached for Jarbidge Road, But Hostility Remains
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
22, 2000. U.S. Forest Service and Elko County leaders have
reached a tentative agreement that leaves both sides unhappy in their
dispute over a closed dirt road that leads to the Jarbidge wilderness.
Activists,
Kennecott Debate Road Ban at Hearing
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
21, 2000. In the first hour of Utah's first major public
hearing on President Clinton's forest conservation plan,
environmentalists ruled the floor -- with one huge exception: Kennecott
Minerals Co.
Judge
Upholds Off-Road Vehicle Ban
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
13, 2000. The judge in the case disagreed that the Forest
Service should have done a formal environmental impact statement. She
agreed with defendants that the agency did not have an obligation to
look harder at the impacts of camping and grazing on the mountain lakes
and fish. The silt choking the lakes appeared to come largely from the
dirt tracks worn by ORVs, she concluded.
Hearing
Planned on Rule for Roadless Areas
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
11, 2000. A public hearing is planned for June 20 on the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the U.S. Forest
Services Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Review:
Nevada Downplays Extinction Risk to Bull Trout
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
8, 2000. Independent scientists say the threatened bull
trout faces a greater risk of extinction in Nevada than state wildlife
officials have maintained.
Forest
Service Plan Does Not Live Up to Clinton Directive
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
4, 2000. Commentary by Susan Ash
Bush
Wants Cooperation, Not Federal Orders for Land Conservation
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
2, 2000. George W. Bush proposed more money and a change in
philosophy for land conservation Thursday, urging cooperation instead
of orders flowing from a "Washington-centered mindset."
Governors
Want Next President To Reorganize Resource Agencies
The Salt Lake Tribune
June
2, 2000. Western governors on both sides of the political
fence say the country's next president should seriously consider
combining federal natural resource agencies under one roof.
Gore
vows to protect forests
Deseret News
May 31,
2000. Wading into one of the nation's most contentious
environmental debates, Vice President Al Gore pledged Tuesday to
prohibit logging and road building on 43 million acres of undeveloped
national forests.
More
recreation fees likely
Ogden
Standard-Examiner (free
registration required) May 26, 2000. The deputy
chief of the national forest system says user fees are the wave of the
future as the U.S. Forest Service struggles to meet an ever-rising
demand for recreation.
Hurdles
Remain for Clinton Forest-Protection Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
21, 2000. Now that President Clinton has made his sweeping
proposal to protect 43 million acres of roadless national forests, the
focus shifts to three other arenas -- the public, Congress and the
courts.
Wasatch-Cache
Plans Roadless-Area Meetings
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
21, 2000. The Wasatch-Cache National Forest has scheduled
two public meetings to discuss its draft plan for roadless-area
conservation.
Roadless
plan gives forests breathing time
Ogden
Standard-Examiner (free
registration required) May 19,
2000. Administration's proposal to ban road construction
leaves some important decisions for future land managers
Forest
Service's 'Ecological Rule' Questioned
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
12, 2000. The Forest Service lacks legal authority to
implement a sweeping rule that would make forest health the top
priority in managing forests, the agency's former top legal adviser
said.
Forest
Service to Ban Roads on 43M Acres
The Salt Lake Tribune
May
10, 2000. More than a fifth of the land inside America's
national forests would be off-limits to road building or road
reconstruction under a draft rule unveiled Tuesday by the head of the
U.S. Forest Service.
New-road
ban urged for forests
Deseret News
May 9,
2000. The Clinton administration on Tuesday was to propose
banning road building in 43 million acres of roadless federal forests
while letting local foresters decide whether to bar activities such as
logging, mining and off-road-vehicle use.
Idaho
Republican warns of new Sagebrush Rebellion
Deseret News
April 26,
2000. Craig says Clinton is trying to punish the rural West
Fire
retardant may be killing fish and frogs
Deseret News
April 11,
2000. Product used on wildfires is toxic as it decomposes
Nader:
Logging Should Be Banned In National Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
April
8, 2000. Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader says
the government should halt all logging on national forests and other
federal lands.
Cabin
Owners Protest Rising Fees for Houses On Forest Service Land
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
24, 2000. David Mead's patch of paradise is a rustic cabin
his family built 25 years ago atop a steep slope in the Sawtooth
National Forest in Idaho.
Threatened
lynx's habitat in Utah
Deseret News
March 22,
2000. The Canada lynx may not be Utah's biggest wildcat, but
it is proving to be the most elusive.
Idaho
Coalition Asks Specifics on No-Roads Area
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
18, 2000. A coalition of mountain counties, a timber
products company and a rancher say the Clinton administration has left
out the specifics about the more than 8 million acres of federal forest
in Idaho it wants to preserve as roadless areas.
GOP:
Memo Shows Forest Initiative Bias
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
14, 2000. A leaked draft memo shows the Forest Service was
eager to enlist two environmental groups to help carry out President
Clinton's plan to ban development in 50 million acres or more of
roadless national forests, a House subcommittee chairwoman said Monday.
Western
Guvs Urge Clinton to Use Caution on Forest Road Bans
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
4, 2000. Eleven Western governors have signed a letter
urging President Clinton to be cautious about banning new roads on 50
million acres of national forest land.
Future
forest roads face stricter standard
Deseret News
March 3,
2000. Advocates would have to demonstrate a 'compelling
need'
Forest
Service to Slow Pace of Road Building
The Salt Lake Tribune
March
3, 2000. The era of building roads in the national forests
is not coming to a complete halt, but the Clinton administration is
planting a firm foot on the brakes.
Leavitt
Leads Governors in Asking Clinton for More Input on Roadless Forest
Tracts
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 29, 2000. Western governors on Monday urged
President Clinton to listen to their concerns about environmental plans
such as his proposal to protect up to 50 million roadless acres in
national forests.
EPA
REJECTS PARK SERVICE SNOWMOBILE PLANS
Environment News
Service
February 24, 2000. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
has rejected all of the options listed in the National Park Service's
(NPS) draft environmental impact statement on winter use in Yellowstone
and Grand Teton national parks.
Plan
Would Limit Colorado Ski Areas
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 24, 2000. A proposal to restrict ski area growth
and off-road vehicle use in the busiest national forest in the Rockies
would create a "tree museum" accessible only to the hardiest athletes,
critics told a Senate panel Wednesday.
GOP
Senators Assail Clinton Forest-Protection Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 23, 2000. In one of their strongest assaults yet on
President Clinton's forest protection effort, GOP senators said Tuesday
the initiative violates federal laws and was crafted secretly with the
help of environmental special interests.
Forest
Service upholds Targhee road closures
Deseret News
February 21,
2000. The U.S. Forest Service has upheld a plan that will
permanently close 830 miles of roads on the Targhee National Forest to
benefit wildlife, streams and the agency's budget.
Bull
Trout and Bulldozers: A War in the West
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 20, 2000. What started as a homegrown dispute over
a washed-out road has become a rallying point for rural Westerners who
feel hemmed in by environmental regulations. It's also a source of
worry for Forest Service workers, who fear the inflamed rhetoric may
inspire violence against them.
Clinton
Proposes Earmarking Forest Funds for New Program
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 5, 2000. President Clinton on Monday will propose
eliminating four national forest trust funds and instead earmark the
funds' $300 million to a single, new program aimed at restoring
national forests and hiring rural workers, officials said.
1,000
protest roads policy in Nevada
Deseret News
February 4,
2000. Nearly 1,000 disgruntled Westerners paraded through
town with 10,000 shovels recently to protest federal environmental
policy and lend support to residents feuding with the U.S. Forest
Service over a washed-out road.
10,000
Shovels Raised in Protest Of Forest Service
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 30, 2000. Hundreds of disgruntled Westerners paraded
through town with 10,000 shovels Saturday to protest federal
environmental policy and lend support to residents feuding with the
U.S. Forest Service over a washed-out road.
Forest
Service Readies Plan for Managing Roads
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 26, 2000. U.S. Forest Service chief Michael Dombeck
said Tuesday a long-awaited study on managing 380,000 miles of national
forest roads is nearing completion, and suggested that scaling back the
roadway network is one of the likely options.
Forest
Service Proposes Fee To Process Special-Use Permits
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 19, 2000. The Forest Service wants companies holding
Special-Use Permits to foot the bill to have their permit applications
processed and reviewed.
Sawmill
Owner Seeks 10,000 Shovels for Disputed Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 5, 2000. A Montana sawmill owner is organizing a
campaign to gather 10,000 shovels from across the West for Nevada
citizens to rebuild a road in a growing dispute with the Forest Service
over a threatened fish.
'Roadless'
proposal falls short, critics say
Deseret News
December 25,
1999. Plan irks county, those who rely on forest livelihoods
Group
Says Utah Forests Threatened
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 21, 1999. All of America's national forests --
including the six in Utah -- are threatened by "environmentally
insensitive" timber sales and other human intrusions, according to a
Washington, D.C.-based conservation group.
Will
rhetoric against feds turn violent in S. Utah?
Deseret News December 5,
1999. Federal employees watch their backs as locals heat up
Loggers
Sue U.S. to Counteract 'Tree Worship'
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 5, 1999. Fed up and fearful for their livelihoods,
the loggers are suing not only the Forest Service but also two
environmental groups that have tied up timber sales in northern
Minnesota's two national forests.
Representative
Says 'Sagebrush Rebellion' to Be Expected in Nevada
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 30, 1999. The Sagebrush Rebellion is alive and well
in Nevada, where animosity toward the federal government should be
expected because the feds control nearly 90 percent of the land, Rep.
Jim Gibbons said Monday.
U.S.
subsidies prop up cattle grazing in West
Deseret News
November 28,
1999. Do funds reward the rich and promote damage to the
land?
Debt-saddled
small farmers losing their homes on the range
Deseret News
November 28,
1999. Big corporations and millionaires own more cattle than
anyone else on the federal lands of the West.
Rapid
Rise in ATV Use Gives Forest, Wildlife Officials Headaches
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 22, 1999. State big-game managers chopped the
number of deer hunters in half six years ago by limiting license sales,
but it probably doesn't seem like it to the deer. Illegal use of
all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) is scarring public land during hunting
seasons and giving forest officials heartburn.
S.L.
Meeting Not One for the Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 19, 1999. President Clinton's largest
land-preservation proposal to date enjoyed an evening of wild support
this week in Salt Lake City.
Forest
Chief Hears Fears of Nevada Staff
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 19, 1999. Forest Service workers appealed to Chief
Mike Dombeck on Thursday to come experience for himself the politically
charged, "toxic atmosphere" in Nevada that prompted their supervisor's
resignation.
Forest
Service to Discuss Clinton's Roadless-Area Initiative
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 17, 1999. The U.S. Forest Service this week began a
series of 10 public "scoping meetings" around the country on President
Clinton's call for permanent protection of the nation's remaining
roadless areas.
Lawmaker
Suggests States Control Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 16, 1999. An Idaho congresswoman says the Forest
Service's mismanagement of a washed-out road in a Nevada trout habitat
revived her belief that states should control national forests because
the federal agency is "too broken to fix."
Leaders
liken bull trout rebellion in Nevada to Boston Tea Party
Ogden
Standard-Examiner (free
registration required) November 14, 1999. Comparing
their cause to the Boston Tea Party, leaders of a rebellion against
federal protection of a threatened fish urged Congress on Saturday to
recognize local control of a road they say was theirs before the
government established a national forest.
Righting
for Utah's Forest
Mountain
Times Weekly
November 11, 1999. A year-old environmental group battles
timber sales in the Uintas - and elsewhere.
Cook's
bill aims to roll back Forest Service fees on cabins
Deseret News
November 11,
1999. Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, says the U.S. Forest
Service is trying to force private cabin owners out of forests by
raising the land lease fees they pay.
Forest
Official Quits to Protest Over 'Fed-Bashing' in Nevada
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 10, 1999. A Forest Service supervisor who resigned
in protest of an "anti-federal fervor" in Nevada says public land
managers in the state fear for their safety and conservation advocates
are afraid to speak out.
Forest
Service leader resigns her position
Ogden
Standard-Examiner (free
registration required) November 9, 1999. The sudden
resignation of a Forest Service supervisor charged with care of
Nevada's national forests was met with empathy and concern by her boss.
Demos
Defend Clinton Ban on Forest Roads
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 4, 1999. House Democrats on Wednesday defended
President Clinton's proposal to ban new roads on more than 40 million
acres of national forest land, saying they would cost too much and
pollute waterways.
Senators
Blast Clinton's Forest Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 3, 1999. Western Republican senators -- including
Orrin Hatch of Utah -- criticized President Clinton's proposal to
protect 50 million acres of roadless forests as a scam to prohibit
logging or recreation by anyone but hikers.
Forest
Service Plans Aspen-Tree Rescue, But critics say it's just an excuse to
sell timber
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 25, 1999.
Restorative
Timber Projects Around the State
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 25, 1999. Several of Utah's national forests are
planning projects intended, at least in part, to "restore" the forests.
Clinton
Seeks to Close Millions of Acres of Forest
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 14, 1999. President Clinton on Wednesday unveiled an
ambitious initiative that could keep roads, logging and mining out of
more than 55 million acres of roadless areas in national forests.
Clinton
Safeguards 40 Million Roadless Acres
Environment News
Service
October 13, 1999. President Bill Clinton has directed the
U.S. Forest Service to develop regulations that will permanently
protect some 40 million acres of roadless National Forest lands.
Clinton's
new Utah shock
Deseret News
October 13,
1999. Wilds order unwelcome news to GOP.
Clinton
Set to Protect Forests
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 13, 1999. Seeking to leave a lasting environmental
legacy, President Clinton will designate as much as two-thirds of
America's remaining road-free federal forests as permanently off-limits
to logging, mining and other development.
ORV
rumble
Deseret News
October 10,
1999. Do the vehicles promote access, or are they noisy,
smelly despoilers of public land?
Elko
Protest Fizzles: Court Throws Up Roadblock
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 10, 1999. They were supposed to be 1,000 strong,
residents of Elko County and their sympathizers, wielding picks and
shovels in protest to reopen a road the U.S. Forest Service took away
from them.
Judge
Blocks Plan to Patch Mountain Road
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 9, 1999. A federal judge has blocked a citizens'
group from rebuilding a remote mountain road, a project that state and
local officials feared might lead to violence.
Road
Protest May Spark a Big Debate
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 6, 1999. On Saturday and Sunday, an estimated 500
people armed with picks and shovels plan to march into the Humboldt
National Forest to rebuild a 1.5-mile road the U.S. Forest Service
recently obliterated for ecological reasons.
Judge
Buzzcuts Timber Sales on American Forests
Environment News
Service
October 5, 1999. A small grassroots environmental group has
won a court ruling that shuts down timber sales on an estimated 110,000
acres of U.S. National Forests across the country.
Forests'
Health Gets Top Priority
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 1, 1999. Forest health would top all other Forest
Service priorities under a proposed overhaul of rules for governing 191
million acres of federal forests.
Newly
Carved Forest 'Road' Will Be a Trail Again
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 1, 1999. A Dixie National Forest ranger this week
was ordered to restore a horseback and hiking trail that his crews
recently widened to accommodate all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).