The Daniel Boone National Forest Response on Greenwood Vegetation Project
From the Daniel Boone stream buffer report. I really appreciate the Daniel Boone National Forest for presenting “their side of the story” on the project discussed previously here. The Daniel Boone...
View ArticleRange of variation webinar (and more)
This is a topic that at least Sharon and I like to debate (though for some reason she didn’t weigh in here). The Western Environmental Law Center is offering this hour and half webinar on July 17. As...
View ArticleStanislaus spotted owl plan amendment
Photo of female and juvenile California spotted owl courtesy of University of California Cooperative Extension (http://ucanr.org/sites/spottedowl/). We recently looked at the Biological Assessment of...
View ArticleGood news for wildlife on two national forests
Here are two different kinds of success stories about restoring wildlife species that have been missing from national forests. Grizzly bears – Lolo National Forest. Current efforts on the Lolo...
View ArticleHundreds of Giant Sequoias Considered Dead From Wildfires
It appears that rumors of ‘natural and beneficial’ wildfires in the southern Sierra Nevada have been ‘greatly exaggerated’. Even the Alder Creek grove, which was recently bought by Save the Redwoods,...
View ArticleHow to get rid of non-native fish in wilderness
Utah Division of Wildlife Since we had such fun discussing use of chainsaws in wilderness and eliminating wolves from wilderness, here’s another example of challenges to managing under the Wilderness...
View ArticlePossible Salvage Strategy for Dixie and Caldor Fires
Since a battle for salvage projects is brewing, I think the Forest Service and the timber industry should consider my idea to get the work done, as soon as possible, under the rules, laws and policies,...
View ArticleAdopt-A-Project Volunteer Requested: South Plateau Landscape Treatment...
Volunteer(s) Requested: One of the things I try to do is attempt to tell the Forest Service side of the story. Sometimes news stories will tell only one side. I’m not blaming reporters nor the Forest...
View ArticleFriday the 9th on the Flathead
On June 9th, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal in a lawsuit against its revised forest plan. The appeal involved questions about ESA consultation on the plan’s effects on grizzly...
View ArticleBitterroot Front Project draft
The Bitterroot National Forest is going to try out “condition-based” NEPA with the Bitterroot Front Project. The project anticipates 54,046 acres of prescribed burning alone; 35,575 acres of...
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