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The Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office is considering an amendment to oil and gas program decisions in existing BLM Colorado resource management plans to promote the conservation of big game corridors and other important big game habitats on BLM-administered land and minerals in Colorado. The scoping period ended September 2. This press release … Read more
My thanks from me and from at least some TSW readers, to the employees and other folks who worked on this review!! Here’s the link. From the Chief’s letter: Their work is an example of how we strive to hold ourselves accountable at the Forest Service, learn from our successes and mistakes, and find better … Read more
Turbines at PacificCorp’s Ekola Flats wind farm outside Medicine Bow, Wyo. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) This is the Aug. 25, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Sammy Roth’s newsletter today which … Read more
Many thanks to an Anonymous for sending this piece in! So many interesting facets. Tribes, political issues, ski areas, how politically hot topics are managed internally by the Forest Service, the difficulty of developing collaborative relationships with shifting people, how the line officer is uniquely responsible relative to others on the forest, due to the … Read more
Here’s a new paper on PODs. It’s Open Access, so yay! Check it out, lots of interesting stuff. I’m a big fan of PODs’n’PLANNING, that is, I think the FS should put a time-out on plan revisions (after all, now we don’t know where the Mature and Old Growth potential rule will go, which could … Read more
Here’s the link: We have recently convened a partnership of scientists and Indigenous leaders from across the Western states to advocate for the kinds of policy solutions necessary to build beneficial relations between people and the land and to restore resilience to our ecosystems. We call for change by federal and state policymakers, land … Read more
Bears Ears co-management is said to be new and unique. Inquiring minds wonder… shouldn’t Tribal views always be taken into account? Are there legal differences in various places that matter? What is different and better about the Bears Ears approach? How does it compare to other Co-Management efforts? As I read the cooperative agreement, … Read more
I know there are many FS partners out there in TSW-land, and you have probably heard this already, but it sounds important. From Chief Moore: Today (July 22) I issued interim policy direction that makes it easier for existing and potential partners and cooperators to work together with the Forest Service to achieve mutually beneficial … Read more
News article from Nature. Many foresters knew this, but research backs us up. Indigenous knowledge reveals history of fire-prone California forest A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires “Combining multiple lines of evidence, Knight … Read more
The following guest post was written by WildEarth Guardians’ John Horning. – mk I once looked at a map showing the United States at night. Lights lit up the coasts and our massive cities across the hinterlands. Though my eyes were attracted to the energy of the lights, they eventually settled on the blank spots … Read more