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  • 'Ghost roads' haunt forests

    Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck says there are over 60,000 miles of unmapped "ghost roads" in national forests.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 02, 1998

  • 'Managing for biodiversity is a mistake'

    Guidebook writer Lou Dawson says that the White River Forest should be managed for people and their use.

    by Allen Best, Jan 17, 2000

  • 'They're not good stewards of the land'

    Jim Gonzalez, a hunter who loves roadless areas, says that the White River National Forest caves into ski areas and other special interests.

    by Allen Best, Jan 17, 2000

  • 'Ugly' addition must go

    The Forest Service wins a lawsuit over an illegal addition to an A-frame house on private property in Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area.

    by Shea Andersen, Feb 17, 1997

  • 'Un-logging' the national forests? It might just happen

    Environmental organizations are petitioning the Secretary of Agriculture to allow groups to buy federal timber and leave it standing rather than logging it.

    by Mark Muro, Mar 03, 1997

  • ...while "Rambo Cat' obliterates them

    The Forest Service's Alan Vandiver uses a road-ripping bulldozer to get rid of roads in Montana.

    by Greg Hanscom, Dec 09, 1996

  • A call to uproot roads

    Idaho Fish and Game officials urge the Forest Service to remove logging roads damaged by heavy rain and landslides in national forests.

    by Jenny Emery, Feb 19, 1996

  • A county in Nevada assaults a river

    Elko County, Nev., commissioners take on the Forest Service over repairing and re-opening a road by the Jarbidge River, which the agency closed to protect the Jarbidge bull trout.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Sep 14, 1998
  • A future of big fires and tiny bugs

    A future of big fires and tiny bugs

    A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.

    by Frank Carroll, Apr 17, 2012

  • A letter fans the flames

    A letter from Elko County District Attorney Gary Woodbury advised Nevada businesses to not sell to or serve Forest Service employees.

    by Catherine Lutz, Apr 10, 2000
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