Companies must now give officials at least a week’s notice before spraying.
U.S. Forest Service
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New hope for beetle-killed landscapes
Can native forest fungi combat the West’s bark beetle epidemic?
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Utah bill aims to force an end to the land transfer debate
Plus, a roundup of federal-to-state land transfer battles across the West.
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National forests to decide where snowmobiles are welcome
A new rule requires the government to specify areas for winter motorized users.
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After a ski patroller’s death, a flurry of questions
Forest Service permitting issues complicate a southwestern Colorado tragedy
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The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in Alaska
But can timber still keep island communities in the Tongass afloat?
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What I learned from 30 years with the Forest Service
After working for the Forest Service for 30 years, I finally had to write a book about it — especially about some of the painful lessons I learned. Here are just a few of them. It will come as no surprise that it wasn’t easy being a woman in what was, and remains, a man’s […]
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Landscape-scale conservation gains ground
The Nature Conservancy just announced its largest Washington land purchase to date.
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A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
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Dear Forest Service: Today’s John Muir shoots video
Let people take all the images they want in wilderness areas.
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Rocky Mountain sawmills rebound
But the industry says it needs more timber.
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Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
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Mapping threats on public land
Intimidation of federal officials is widespread across the West.
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Reports from the front lines
Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.
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Western states eye federal lands—again
The ultra-right ‘remedy’ for public lands.
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Defuse the West
Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
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Roots of rebellion: A forum
Four experts discuss threats to federal public-lands employees and where we go from here.
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Female firefighters threaten to sue the Forest Service — again
Four decades after the first allegations of discrimination, some say little has changed.
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