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  • Trashing the earth, and the truth

    Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development. Subscribers only

  • As Interior Turns

    During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas. Subscribers only

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    The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry. Subscribers only

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    Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch. Subscribers only

 

Results for keyword: Logging

  • While you were voting …

    While the nation is distracted by the election, the Bush administration races ahead with environmental policy changes.

  • Left in the lurch

    The recent expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act has left western Oregon counties without funds.

  • Weathering the academic storm

    Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked

  • Of salvage logging and salvation

    If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be measured in board-feet alone

  • Christmas fuels the 'bough industry' in Washington

    The writer tells how Christmas has fueled a "bough industry" in the forest

  • Of salvage logging and salvation

    The writer finds salvage logging to be anything but salvation for a forest

  • Biomass: What to do with all that wood

    Mark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican forests

  • Life in the transition zone

    Longtime community activist and HCN board member Luis Torres is delighted to see environmentalists and loggers working together in the forests of his native northern New Mexico

  • Clinton-era roadless rule is back... for now

    A federal judge has reinstated President Clinton’s roadless rule protecting forests in the Lower 48 states, but the decision seems to have only confused the issue of forest management and is likely to end up back in court

  • How do you enter a roadless area?

    The writer criticizes the Bush administration for ignoring public sentiment and rushing to log potential wilderness areas

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