Administration Overhauls Rules for US Forests
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The Bush administration issued broad new rules Wednesday overhauling the guidelines for managing the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and making it easier for regional
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 10--Last year's failed plan by the Bush administration to sell more  than 7,000 acres of national forest land in Georgia and Tennessee is back --  penciled into the president's proposed 2008 budget.   Under the plan, the U.S.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, Dec. 17:  The Bush administration is trying again to stifle the public's say in decisions about logging and mining in the national forests.
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President Bush on Tuesday approved changes aimed at modernizing the country's controls on the export of sensitive products to foreign nations. U.S. manufacturers said the changes should boost the ability of American companies to make overseas sales.
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A federal judge Wednesday threw out the Bush administration's policy on logging and mining on 49 million acres of national forests, The New York Times said. Judge Elizabeth LaPorte of the U.S.
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The US has passed a law that could see travel bans for Cambodian officials accused of looting the country's natural resources, a move hailed Wednesday by conservationists as a strike against illegal logging.
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Opponents and supporters say new Forest Service environmental review rules are expected to have little impact on the amount of timber harvested from the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie
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By Tom Kenworthy  A federal judge in California on Wednesday struck down Bush administration rules for development on nearly all 58.5million acres of "roadless" National Forest land and reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road-building, logging, drilling and other activities.
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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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Increasingly, trees are the new must-have for American cities.
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - Toxic fumes from gasoline, motor vehicles and fuel containers would be cut significantly under new federal rules the Bush administration developed under legal pressure from environmental groups.
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By TERENCE CHEA  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Wednesday reinstated the "Roadless Rule," a Clinton-era ban on road construction in nearly a third of national forests.  U.S.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 10--The first new management plan in 20 years for the Uwharrie National Forest, east of Charlotte, went public Friday.   The plan would increase logging as the 52,000-acre forest returns to its ecological roots, the U.S.
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The Bush administration imposed stricter standards on the nation's air quality yesterday for the first time in nearly a decade, ruling that communities across the country must cut back on the amount of soot in the air on any given day.
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President Bush has signed an executive order giving the White House more say over how federal departments and agencies carry out laws
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By Matthew Daly  WASHINGTON - Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.
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By Douglas Fischer, STAFF WRITER  A federal judge Wednesday upheld a Clinton-era decision leaving vast roadless tracts of the country's national forests off-limits to logging trucks, drilling rigs and other traffic.  The decision, by U.S.