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Staff reductions and budget cuts suggest the Forest Service could shift its science priorities from forest health to wildfire and boosting wood products.
All four members of the state’s congressional delegation have taken a stance against federal transfer of lands in recent ...
They have betrayed the public trust and poisoned the well,” says a wildlife advocate after the Forest Service dropped a ...
It’s a dire situation,” says one national parks advocate. “These spaces shouldn’t be taken for granted, and they are at risk.
Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating ...
BILLINGS — President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects ...
The U.S. Forest Service on Thursday provided notice that it will publish a final environmental review and draft decision on a transfer of land that would clear the way for a massive copper mining ...
An emergency designation of 176,000 square miles of U.S. Forest Service land effectively rolls back environmental protections and accelerates the timber permitting process for logging projects. Last ...
In the remote Zuni Mountains of northwestern New Mexico, Brian Leddy owns an historic cabin on land he leases from the U.S.
All told, the declaration encompasses some 59 percent of Forest Service lands. Rollins made no mention of the role climate change plays in escalating wildfire risk or intensity, or how warming ...