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• Forest Service to bolster protections for fish, wildlife habitat

  —The Westerner

  After striking out the last three times, the U.S. Forest Service is embarking on another rewrite of the basic planning rule that balances logging against fish and wildlife and clean water in national forests. Echoing his speech earlier this year laying out a greener future for the national forests, Agriculture [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:38am EST
  

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• Feds may OK helicopter landings in Frank Church Wilderness

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  The U.S. Forest Service could today approve a request from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to land helicopters in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness to put radio collars on wolves. Approval of the landings in such a remote area would be certain to rile environmental [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:31am EST
  

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• Group to sue over trout deaths linked to fire retardant

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  An environmental group announced plans to sue local and state fire agencies after studies linked the death of roughly 50 endangered steelhead trout to fire retardant dropped during the Jesusita fire. Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, a nonprofit group based in Oregon, filed yesterday a 60-day notice of intent [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:30am EST
  

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• Forest Service isn't listening on travel rules

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  The off-roaders picketing the Shasta-Trinity National Forest headquarters last Friday complain that its "travel management plan" is nothing more than a bureaucratic exercise designed to close off public lands - no matter the opinion of the public. Does the U.S. Forest Service really have to work so hard to prove [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:29am EST
  

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• Humans caused the Sheep Fire, investigators say

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  U.S. Forest Service Investigators say the 7,128-acre Sheep Fire that threatened Lytle Creek and Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains was human caused and likely arson. The blaze that took seven days to put out destroyed one home and four buildings in an eight-mile swath through the San Bernardino National [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:26am EST
  

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• Forest Service stands ground on grizzly issues

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  When the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit last month to challenge three logging projects in Kootenai National Forest, the news probably didn’t surprise officials within the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It’s nothing new to see conservation groups challenge the actions of [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:23am EST
  

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• Land trust sells private land to U.S. Forest Service

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  An Inland land trust is transferring 826 acres of privately owned land to the Cleveland National Forest, including a scenic canyon just west of Corona. The U.S. Forest Service, which manages the forest, does not have immediate plans for the land, but it will most likely remain as open space [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:21am EST
  

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• Company: Cobalt mining in Idaho to start in 2011

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  Mining for cobalt — an element used in hybrid car batteries and jet engines — could get under way in the central Idaho mountains in 2011, after a Canadian company said it won initial federal approval for the plan. Formation Metals Inc. said Wednesday that winning the U.S. Forest Service's' [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

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• Forest Service signs "confusing", nude bathers cited, "soak-in" planned

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  A confusing sign is coming down after a group of people were cited for skinny dipping at a hot springs in Utah County. The Deseret News reports Utah County sheriff's deputies cited eight adults for lewdness at Diamond Fork Springs in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest on an October evening just [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:02am EST
  

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• National Forest closes Horse Butte grazing

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  The Gallatin National Forest has shut down grazing on the Horse Butte Peninsula, saying the valuable habitat for grizzly bears, wolves and western toads would be hurt if cattle returned to the area. A U.S. Forest Service analysis of the area adjacent to Yellowstone National Park also gives a nod [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:46pm EST
  

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• Dorgan vows to block historic designation for ND Badlands site where Roosevelt once ran cattle

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  Sen. Byron Dorgan believes that adding scenic North Dakota Badlands to the National Register of Historic Places will restrict land use and has told the U.S. Forest Service that he will attempt to block the nomination. "I've told them, essentially, 'Knock it off,'" Dorgan, D-N.D., said Friday. A historic designation' [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:46am EST
  

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• Forest Service Cleared in Esperanza Fire Deaths

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  A mix of wind-stoked flames and a lapse in awareness -- not misconduct on the fire line -- is to blame for the deaths of five Forest Service firefighters in the 2006 Esperanza Fire, a federal probe has concluded. The findings were released Thursday after months of delays by the [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:59am EST
  

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• Forest Service 'Dramatically Reshaping' Plans in Response to Climate Change

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  Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change. In a memo (pdf) earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:35am EST
  

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• Forest Service to Reconsider Night Flying

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  Los Angeles County's aerial firefighters are proud of the skill that lets them pinpoint water and flame-retardant drops after the sun goes down. Now they want the U.S. Forest Service to let them show what they can do. The Forest Service agreed on Tuesday to review its longstanding rule against [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

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• Forest Service should change firefighting policies, report says

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  Sharply questioning the U.S. Forest Service's aggressiveness, the Los Angeles County Fire Department says in a report on the deadly Station fire that the federal agency should change its policies to allow night flying by water-dropping helicopters and make greater use of local reinforcements to attack any blaze in the [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:09am EST
  

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• Area politicians support recommendations in county's Station Fire report

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  The day after the county in a report on the Station Fire called for a "vastly different approach" in the way the U.S. Forest Service fights fires, the agency announced it will reconsider its policies. Area politicians supported taking legislative action to enact the recommendations. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, lauded [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:07am EST
  

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• Grizzly Bear Defenders Fight Logging Projects

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  Environmentalists say the U.S. Forest Service is paving the way to grizzly bear deaths by opening one of America's five remaining grizzly bear habitats to road construction and logging. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies says the Forest Service's approval of three new projects will hurt the 45 grizzlies that [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:00am EST
  

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• Forest Service says trees can slow climate change

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  National forests can be used as a carbon "sink" with vast numbers of trees absorbing carbon dioxide to help slow global warming, the Forest Service chief said Wednesday, but that goal must be balanced. He's also concerned about the risk of catastrophic wildfires that produce massive amounts of carbon dioxide. [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:57am EST
  

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• Forest Service Open to Allowing Mountain Bikes on Continental Divide Trail

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  Along its 3,100 miles that wind from the Canadian border down to Mexico, the Continental Divide Trail is one of the most rugged, and in parts one of the most visually spectacular, hiking trails in the country. Now the U.S. Forest Service says the route could be opened in places [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:01am EST
  

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• Report: Terrain, brush to blame in huge wildfire

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  The largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history raged out of control because it jumped into inaccessible terrain, not because the U.S. Forest Service scaled back firefighters and aircraft attacking the flames, a federal review found Friday. The U.S. Forest Service study of decision-making during the Station Fire's first three [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:24am EST
  

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• Adapting to Climate Change - A Short Course for Land Managers

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  The U.S. Forest Service’s western research stations have released an interactive short course that presents current scientific knowledge on adapting to climate variability in wildland management. Titled “Adapting to Climate Change: A Short Course for Land Managers,” the course is available as a DVD or online at the Climate Change [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:17am EST
  

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• Smokejumping trailblazer Earl Cooley dies at age 98

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  Pioneer smokejumper Earl Cooley once told a newspaper reporter the only bad part of parachuting into a forest fire was the walk home. Considering that his chute nearly failed to open and he landed 140 feet up a spruce on the Forest Service's first-ever jump on a wildfire, it's fair [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:18am EST
  

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