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Merced Sun-Star.com -- Local (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
SONORA -- Visitors to the Stanislaus National Forest soon could find out what new limits will be placed on motorized travel.
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo by unsure shot/LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The Station Fire began on August 26th along the roadside in the Angeles National Forest above the community of La Cañada-Flintridge, and soon after its fiery grip held the city in its clutches, authorities deemed the start point a crime scene and launched an arson investigation. But so far there isn't much to stoke the embers of the case,...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. That is how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" begins,...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It's a battle that has ranchers pitted against environmentalists. An ongoing legal dispute over grazing practices in the Malheur National Forest has many Eastern Oregon ranchers worried about their livelihoods and the future of their ranches. Environmentalists are concerned grazing on certain parts of the public forest is degrading habitat for threatened fish. The dispute was sparked by a lawsuit filed...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last week Senator Max Baucus joined several mainstream environmentalists in adding pine beetle outbreaks to a long list of things that can be blamed on climate change. Baucus is referring to the recent breakout of pine beetles in Montana. These insects bore their way into pine tress and lay their eggs inside the tree; the larvae of the beetles feed off the bark and this eventually kills the trees....
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
omNovia Technologies today announced that the National Forest Foundation(NFF) has selected omNovia Web Conference as its online collaboration and communication platform between employees and partner groups across the country. NFF will now utilize omNovia's next generation web conferencing technology in their work to engage more Americans in community-based and national programs to conserve and restore...
BRT Insights - Whitewater Kayaking (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Please write letters to Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California State Water Resources Control, & California Department of Fish and Game in support of McCloud River restoration. Guest Author: Dave Steindorf, California Stewardship Director, American Whitewater. American Whitewater has been working for three years to get improved flows on the McCloud River, quite possibly the best class III/...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The town of Arlington is backing a plan by the Green Mountain National Forest to buy 812 acres of land from a timber company.
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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 Angeles National Forest. In the report, a review of the first five days of the Station...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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 the report for bringing up questions about the way the Forest Service...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said his agency is trying to manage forests to...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The U.S. Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer's gigantic and deadly wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, a Los Angeles County Fire Department report found.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The U.S. Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer's gigantic and deadly wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, a Los Angeles County Fire Department report found.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The nation's top Forest Service official says national forests can store more carbon to slow global warming, but he warns that such a goal must be balanced against the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The nation's top Forest Service official says national forests can store more carbon to slow global warming, but he warns that such a goal must be balanced against the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
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