Forest Service Touts Fire Protection Plan
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By Henry Brean  By HENRY BREAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  Trees and shrubs by the tens of thousands would be stripped from the Spring Mountains in the coming years as part of a U.S. Forest Service plan to protect private homes, public facilities and escape routes from wildfires.
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--The Bush administration Tuesday moved to drop safeguards from  1.6 million acres of public forest seen as critical habitat for the northern  spotted owl, making it easier for federal agencies to proceed with logging  there.
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Federal land management agencies are being asked to make more employees available to fight wildfires because crews and equipment have been stretched to the limit by nearly 60 major blazes around the West.
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By Shannon Dininny Associated Press  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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A panel reviewing last fall's deadly Southern California wildfires called Friday for additional personnel and equipment as a means of responding quickly and with overwhelming force before small blazes spread.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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Millions of acres of the country's largest national forest would be open for logging and other development under a Bush administration forest management plan released yesterday, a move critics said will hurt wildlife and destroy pristine lands.
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A fast-spreading wildfire has burned 500 acres of woodland in the northern section of Los Angeles County, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Stanton Florea.
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Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff writer  LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST -- Taking advantage of cooler weather, hundreds of "hotshot" firefighters descended Thursday deep into Ventura County's wilderness.
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MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Sept. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The newly released Management Plan for the Monongahela National Forest fails to permanently protect economically and ecologically important natural areas of the forest.
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By Karl Terry, The Portales News-Tribune, N.M.  Feb. 1--A bill protecting wildland firefighters from criminal prosecution has been introduced in the New Mexico Legislature by Rep. Keith Gardner R-Roswell.
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THE BUSH administration&#39;s new rules on management of national forests are not a surprise. They generally track a set of draft regulations the Forest Service issued two years ago.
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By Tom Knudson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 17--When the Deep fire broke out in the Sequoia National Forest on Aug. 12, 2004, Forest Service fire managers projected the cost of fighting it would be modest -- about $200 an acre.   But costs raced faster than the flames.
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Environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday, claiming a six-year-old federal law aimed at preventing wildfires has degenerated into a backdoor effort to eventually increase logging across 340,000 acres of Sierra Nevada national forests.
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By EUGENE TONG  Firefighters trying to show homeowners the do's and dont's of brush-fire protection could simply point to Rodney Kemerer's backyard in Benedict Canyon.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Dec. 17--Loggers will thin out a 47-acre bug-infested swath of mature trees on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest under a proposed forest-health improvement project on the Mount Adams Ranger District.