http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/protecting-wildlife-corridors-remains-more-theory-than-practice There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge. No publisher Mary Ellen Hannibal Wildlands Network mule deer seasonal migration wildlife habitat Wyoming Fish and Game grizzly bears Pinedale Anticline Forest Service elk Bureau of Land Management Southern Great Plans Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool landscape connectivity Wildlife Conservation Society Jonah Field Rush Holt Ken Salazar Wyoming pronghorn Yellowstone to Yukon private land migration private property owners habitat mapping oil and gas drilling migratory birds Mark Gocke Washington Connected Landscapes Project megalinkages of habitat private land conservation Western Governors’ Association conservation easements habitat connectivity wildlife biology Endangered Species Act Landscape Conservation Cooperatives wildlife migration corridors energy development U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Path of the Pronghorn bison Kenyon Fields animal migration wildlife overpass Center for Large Landscape Connectivity Rob Ament 2011-12-30T18:02:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.4/forestry-genetics-a-blister-rust-solution Genetic sequencing may hold the key to stopping blister rust, a disease that's ravaging Western whitebark pines. No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn plant genetics genetic sequencing geneticists Whitebark pines Forest Service blister rust David Neale mapping genetic traits 2011-06-08T17:29:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15847 With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire logging No publisher Emma Brown Jerry Franklin Logging timber sales Congress George Sexton Southern Oregon Timber Industries Biscuit Fire Dave Schott snags Forest Service logging Gordon Smith Greg Walden standing dead Politics post-fire salvage logging Associ Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center timber 2010-11-16T17:32:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15870 The Forest Service’s claim that a recent court order would suspend routine activities – such as cutting Christmas trees or picking mushrooms – has been dismissed by the judge as the agency’s attempt to blow the issue out of proportion No publisher Michelle Burkhart National Forest Service Forest Service James K. Singleton Jr. court orders categorical exclusions public appeals Earth Island Institute Matt Kenna Western Environmental Law Center Andy Stahl Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Forest Service Decision Maki 2010-02-05T08:31:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876 The Forest Service wants to create a new type of "categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling projects to be approved without environmental study or public input No publisher Emma Brown Wayde Schafer National Grassland oil and gas Club energy industry Oil And Gas Forests National Environmental Policy Act categorical Sierra drilling applications Forest Service drilling oil and gas permits mineral rights Dakota Prairie exclusions Skip Underwood Fe 2010-02-05T08:31:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15925 Sen. Larry Craig’s suggestion that New Orleans’ 9th Ward be restored as a wetland may represent a newfound respect for the power of nature and the limits of the human ability to control it No publisher Rocky Barker Forests Fires Congress Larry Craig New Orleans 9th Ward hurricane damage Hurricane Katrina wetlands restoration forest fires Yellowstone fires wildfires fire suppression Forest Service National Academy of Sciences Forest Commission Gifford Pinchot John Muir Hurric 2010-02-05T08:31:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15953 In Scorched Earth, journalist Rocky Barker describes firsthand the chaos and consequences of the Yellowstone fires No publisher Gary Wockner Fire Rocky Barker Scorched Earth Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone fires wildfires forest fires Forest Service fire policy Idaho Falls Post-Register Idaho Statesman High Country News forest ecosystems fire ecology Don Despain Bob Barbee 2010-02-05T08:31:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/the-latest-a-cautious-cave-re-opening After closing all Western caves to protect bats from deadly white-nose syndrome, the Forest Service re-opens certain caves No publisher Sarah Jane Keller white-nose syndrome Caving bats Forest Service 2013-04-26T22:13:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/lawyer-laird-lucas-talks-about-how-he-fights-for-the-west The environmental lawyer battles big industries and government agencies in the courtroom on behalf of the nonprofit Advocates for the West. No publisher Steve Bunk BLM environmental organizations attorneys nonprofit organizations Western Watersheds Project Advocates for the West environmental laws environmental lawsuits Forest Service environmental litigation Endangered Species Act Laird Lucas Department of Interior Land and Water Fund of the Rockies conservation activists 2012-01-18T23:42:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/why-the-southwest-is-burning This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly. No publisher William deBuys wildfire Hot Times Western wildfires climate change denial Forest Service Wallow fire forest fires drought firefighting, 2011-10-10T18:38:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/358/17341 A look at the recent California wildfires details how much they’ve cost so far and how many acres were burned, especially in the expanding wildland-urban interface. No publisher Christine Hoekinga San Diego California fires Forest Service wildland-urban interface drought fire costs 2010-08-09T22:50:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/359/17371 Recent elections in the West show support for land-use planning and “convergence politics”; hunting declines in the West, but Satan keeps busy in Idaho, causing divorces. No publisher Ray Ring San Diego California fires Forest Service wildland-urban interface drought fire costs 2010-08-09T21:36:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17501 Jim Stiles asks about perfect moments; rent-a-pet; Douglas Bruce behaves like a jerk; Forest Service meeting gets nasty in Montana. No publisher Betsy Marston Colorado State Legislature Jim Stiles FlexPetz thunderstorms Canyon Country Zephyr Darby Montana Forest Service Douglas Bruce dogs 2011-02-14T22:52:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17638 Despite a cold winter, the West is still warming; the Southern Nevada Water Authority has wild ideas about water; renewable energy is on a roll, but expensive Western resorts are not; neglected Forest Service roads make a mess in the Pacific Northwest. No publisher Sarah Gilman Southern Nevada Water logging roads renewable energy real estate slump Authority Global warming in the West Forest Service water shortages wolves 2010-08-02T22:29:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/369/17666 Development threatens inholdings in national parks and forests; a few wilderness bills move through Congress; oil and mining booms in the West; W.R. Grace sets up trust for its victims; Homeland Security dodges enviro laws for border barriers; coal power No publisher Sarah Gilman coal power plants border fence wilderness National park inholdings chinook fishing legislation Forest Service Mount Emmons molybdenum 2010-07-26T22:44:42Z News Article