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Corral Complex takes on a Direct Attack!

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This was just posted earlier today in the Humboldt County North Coast Journal Blogspot: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/Blogthing/archives/2013/09/05/firefighters-shift-to-direct-attack-on-corral-complex Nearly a thousand firefighters this week are going on the offensive in their battle against the Corral Complex wildfires burning in the Six Rivers National Forest, just east of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. After two weeks of road-clearing, bulldozing … Read more

Wilderness Watch Questions Landscaping Proposal for the Pasayten Wilderness

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From Wilderness Watch: Wilderness Watch is urging the Forest Service (FS) to abandon its proposal to plant whitebark pine in the Pasayten Wilderness in Washington. None of the reasons the FS gives in its Quartz Mountain Whitebark Pine Preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) appear to be valid. The EA states, “There is a need to establish … Read more

Payson Roundup: 4FRI Contract Bombshell

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This blog has had numerous posts, debates and discussions about the Four Forest Restoration (4FRI) in Arizona, including this article, “Is the US Forest Service killing the last best chance to save the Southwest’s forests?” Well, the latest development via the in-depth reporting of Pete Aleshire with the Payson Roundup in an article yesterday titled, … Read more

Fact Checking Roady, Daines and Hubbard

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Last week I had to shake my head and literally laugh at some of the predictable statements of supposed fact being made during a hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.  Since one of the articles about the hearing has just been posted here, I figured I’d put together … Read more

Alaska’s chief forester hoodwinks Congress about the Tongass

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(The following note and op-ed is from Larry Edwards, a Greenpeace forest campaigner and 36-year Sitka, Alaska resident. – mk) I published the op-ed below today in the Juneau Empire, concerning fundamentally false testimony given at  Senator Wyden’s Senate E&NR Committee hearing on public forests (USFS and BLM) on June 25.  The particular testimony was … Read more

Up In Smoke: Is the Forest Service killing the last best chance to save the Southwest’s forests?

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The following article, written by Claudine LoMonaco, appeared in the Santa Fe Reporter recently.  The article provides a number of details about a series of alleged lies, deceits and questionable business practices concerning Pioneer Forest Products, described as an “under-the-radar company from Montana” that “lied about its work history in its proposal to the federal … Read more