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Results for keyword: Northwest Forest Plan

The end of ‘analysis paralysis’?

The Forest Service has overhauled its cumbersome forest-planning process, but many experts say the agency may have gone too far.

by Jodi Peterson, Feb 19, 2007
Judge rejects old-growth forest rollbacks

A federal judge has rolled back the Bush administration’s rollback of the Northwest Forest Plan’s old-growth forest "survey and manage" rules

by Tony Barboza, Sep 05, 2005
Transforming the Forest Service: Maverick bureaucrat Wendy Herrett

Wendy Herrett, a woman with "the heart of a warrior," braved discrimination to become the first female district ranger in the Forest Service and a pioneer in ecosystem management

by Tim Sullivan, Dec 06, 2004
Life After Old Growth

The battle over Northwestern old-growth forests is raging again, but behind the scenes, some locals are trying to make peace

by Greg Hanscom, Sep 27, 2004
Bush administration stretches a lawsuit to get the cut out

The Bush administration plans to more than double the amount of logging in public forests west of the Cascades in Washington, Oregon and Northern California

by Michael Milstein, Sep 01, 2003

JW Westman on "Sportsmen" stab Theodore Roosevelt in the back Wow, kind of ironic that SFW/BGF are trying to dra...
Donna Shane on Dust to dust I was born in Uravan in 1959. My dad worked in the...
Vito Quatraro on "Sportsmen" stab Theodore Roosevelt in the back I would suggest everyone review the NRA press rele...
Ben Lamb on "Sportsmen" stab Theodore Roosevelt in the back Sorry Ryan, Maybe you and Peay would be more belie...
Ben Long on "Sportsmen" stab Theodore Roosevelt in the back Mr. Benson. You deploy an old debate tactic: if yo...

From gust to gale | So-called "grass-roots" opposition to wind may be ...
Frack fricasee | Election-year politics (partially) hijack Interior...
A Mexican rancher struggles to shift from cattle to conservation | In Northwest Mexico, rancher Carlos Robles Elías ...
L.A. activists try to stop woodlands from becoming sediment dumps | When Camron Stone realized that an oak forest was ...
Make anglers allies for endangered species | The Endangered Species Act is more flexible than i...

Micah True, born to run | Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Bla...
Balancing fish and farms on a Washington estuary | A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washingto...
Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine | The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen V...
Bark beetle kill leads to more severe fires, right? Well, maybe | The connection between bark beetle outbreaks and W...
A Mexican rancher struggles to shift from cattle to conservation | In Northwest Mexico, rancher Carlos Robles Elías ...

Results for keyword: Northwest Forest Plan