http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15912 The Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to remove the marbled murrelet from the endangered species list, despite the small seabird’s declining numbers No publisher Michael Milstein Birds U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department marbled murrelet Endangered Species Act seabirds rare birds old-growth forest logging Bush environmental policy Craig Manson Interior Department Alan Burger biologists 2010-02-05T08:31:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15544 The U.S. Treasury Department has given $50 million in tax credits to Ecotrust to help depressed Northwestern timber towns carry out sustainable logging No publisher Michael Milstein Logging Communities Ecotrust New Markets Tax Credit timber towns logging communities socio-economics sustainable forestry stream restoration salmon Bettina von Hagen Grant Munro Pacific Northwest small towns 2010-02-05T09:24:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15536 Facing severe budget cuts, the Forest Service is selling off property, and considering closing some recreation sites it considers too expensive to maintain No publisher Michael Milstein National Forest Service Forest Service public lands ranger stations recreation sites campsites land sales government auctions budget cuts Richard Sowa Hank Kashdan Bush administration George W. Bush Healthy Forests Initiative Deschutes National Forest Winema Nation 2010-02-05T09:24:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15438 The Friends of the Columbia Gorge, a small conservation group based in Portland, Ore., has received a $4 million bequest from Norman Yeon No publisher Michael Milstein Environmental Friends of the Columbia Gorge Nancy Russell Norman Yeon John Baptiste Yeon bequests land preservation conservation groups environmental groups Advocacy Groups 2010-02-05T09:24:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15261 Klamath Basin farmers may be hit with a huge increase in electric rates, but some say that even putting farms out of business may not save enough water for endangered fish No publisher Michael Milstein Energy Utilities Irrigation Klamath Basin farmers irrigation PacifiCorp endangered salmon water rights Oregon Natural Resources Council water conservation 2010-02-05T09:23:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15046 Oregon has developed a blueprint that will allow eight or more wolf packs to move in from neighboring Idaho No publisher Michael Milstein Threatened and Endangered Species wolves Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission endangered species wolf reintroduction 2010-02-05T09:21:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14423 Federal wildlife managers admit that the massive fish kill in the Klamath River in 2002 was caused, in part, by the diversion of water to farmers No publisher Michael Milstein Salmon Klamath River fish kills salmon U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service water rights irrigation agriculture endangered fish sturgeon coho chinook Trinity River Sue Ellen Wooldridge Gale Norton Steve Pedery WaterWatch 2010-02-05T09:55:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14367 The National Research Council issues a report saying that irrigation shutoffs alone won’t save endangered salmon in the Klamath River Basin of Oregon and California No publisher Michael Milstein Irrigation Klamath River Basin National Research Council irrigation agriculture salmon steelhead fish kills water use 2010-02-05T09:55:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14199 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 No publisher Michael Milstein Logging Northwest Forest Plan old-growth trees Pacific Northwest 2010-02-05T10:13:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/244/13729 A new study shows that logging communities received little of the economic help promised to them when the timber industry collapsed in the Northwest during the 1990s No publisher Michael Milstein Logging Communities 2010-02-05T08:41:35Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/236/13431 The Bush administration bows to pressure from the logging industry to revise the Clinton-era Northwest Forest Plan. No publisher Michael Milstein Logging 2010-02-05T08:55:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/225/11176 The Bush administration aims to overhaul the Clinton-bred forestry plan, and environmentalists pledge to oppose efforts to dilute it. No publisher Michael Milstein Politics Logging 2010-02-05T08:52:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/218/10965 The Forest Service has been illegally collecting recreation fees at thousands of sites in the West, instead of the 100 places allowed under the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program. No publisher Michael Milstein Camping And Hiking 2010-02-05T08:51:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/218/10958 Oregon range ecologist Joy Belsky is remembered with admiration by friends and opponents alike. No publisher Michael Milstein Dear Friends Environmental Advocacy Groups 2010-02-05T08:51:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/215/10861 Western public-land rangers are being pulled from their regular jobs and reassigned back East, guarding federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and serving as temporary sky marshals. No publisher Michael Milstein Federal Employees 2010-02-05T08:37:20Z News Article