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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Drug cartels are increasingly using Indian lands across the United States to cultivate marijuana, authorities say. Illegal marijuana farms, mostly operated by gangs with ties to Mexico, are spreading quickly, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The U.S. Forest Service found farms in 61 national forests across 16 states this year -- up from 49 farms in 10 states last year, the newspaper said....
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
When Hunter Hassell of Bend was a fifth-grader at Lava Ridge Elementary, his teacher, Ryan Shaffer, taught the class about the importance of watersheds and clean water. So when it came time for Hunter, now 13 and a seventh-grader at Sky View Middle School, to earn his Eagle Scout Badge, “I didn't want to do something that's just sort of ordinary, like putting up a flagpole,” he said Tuesday....
Some landscapes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Slavko Vorkapich's contribution to cinema has been described by Philip Kemp in a Film Reference article : 'to today's audiences, brought up on high-speed editing and slick narrative elisions, the pace of classic 1930s Hollywood cinema can sometimes seem ponderous. Events are too explained, too pacedout—except when, about mid-way through certain films, the action abruptly slips into a montage...
A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yet another Bush-era wildlife regulation has been overturned in the courts . A federal judge has struck down the 2008 forest planning regulations that eliminated a key wildlife protection provision known as “viability”. The Wildlife Viability Requirement of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 provides important protection for the hundreds of bird species that inhabit the 193 million-acre...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Marine scales a rock face last week, one way hundreds of Marines honed survival skills at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport. BRIDGEPORT - For thousands of U.S. Marines, the road to Afghanistan goes through an isolated training facility in the Eastern Sierra where they share the rugged Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest with civilian hunters, backpackers and skiers....
Karon and Johns walks (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Wednesday 14th October We only had time for a short walk today so headed off to find some caches around Rough park. We parked at the Lount nature reserve and then walked along the road to enter the park via the bridleway. This was another local nature reserve that we hadn't realised existed and only found because someone had placed geocaches there. We walked along the track and stopped to find "Curse...
InciWeb National Incidents (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Reno Fire was started by lightning on September 7, 2009, in the Bear Wallow Wilderness area about 25 miles SW of Alpine, AZ. The fire size is estimated to be about 4,500 acres and is being managed as a resource benefit fire. A"short" Type I Incident Management Team led by Dugger Hughes has been assigned to manage this fire in cooperation with the San Carlos Agency and the Fort Apache...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Remember William "Bill" Sparkman, the part time census worker found hanging from a tree, naked and bound with the word "Fed" written across his check in black marker? Police are looking closely at suicide in this case. William Bill Sparkman On September 12th Mr. Sparkman was found hanged, with his feet "in contact with the ground," in the Daniel Boone National Forest near...
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 6th issue include: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America , by Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. NONFICTION/HISTORY. EW's slant: "Few writers have the Pulitzer Prize-winning Egan's gift for transforming history lessons into the stuff...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Daniel Boone national Forest hosts billion-dollar drug trafficking operations.
The Hot Springs Guy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Any day now a Boise National Forest crew will be removing the hot springs pools at Rocky Canyon Hot Springs. This is wrong. Here's why: The improved pools are environmentally safe. I guarantee that within a week of removal, new rock pools lined with blue tarps will reappear. Blue tarps look ugly, draw attention to the hot springs and are not environmentally friendly. The Boise National Forest has said...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized...
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1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has named five new members to its Advisory Board and reappointed 18 members. Newly elected to the board is John M. Marasco. Sara Andrews, Eric Bridges, Linda Devlin and state Rep. Matt Gabler, R.-DuBois, were named ex officio members. Also, former Congressman John E. Peterson was moved from ex officio to honorary status. All of the appointments were made by...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Gallatin National Forest has withdrawn its Lonesome Wood Vegetation Management Project Decision to further analyze the project's effects on grizzly bears given the species' recent relisting as an endangered species. The project is located 12 miles northwest of West Yellowstone along the Hebgen Lake Road. The vegetation removal would reduce fire danger near residences. It would also reduce vegetation...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The White Mountain National Forest is waiving all day-use fees on Veterans Day. Forest supervisor Tom Wagner says the holiday on Wednesday, Nov. 11, is a great way to connect communities with public lands while honoring the sacrifices made by the America's veterans and Armed Services personnel.
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