U.S. Judge's Ruling Could End Forest User Fees
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 13--A federal magistrate's ruling could end, or scale back the scope of, the $5 daily user fees charged on Mount Lemmon and in Sabino and Madera canyons.
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The federal government spent nearly $11 million to salvage timber from an Oregon wildfire in 2002, yet it stands to get less than $9 million from selling the wood, congressional investigators say.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 5--Ever wonder how Teddy Roosevelt persuaded so many of those flinty Western types to surrender control of millions of acres of land so they could remain untamed indefinitely as national forests?   He cut the local folks a deal.
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The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the Bush administration's proposal to sell off portions of national forests is that it evidently is going nowhere -- again.   That sounds about right.
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By PENNY BROWN  A federal judge has punted back to state court much of a lawsuit asking whether state Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Bob Odom is overstepping his authority.  U.S.
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By TERENCE CHEA  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday reinstated a Clinton administration ban on the building of roads in untouched sections of national forests.  U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte sided with states and environmentalists who sued to protect forest land.
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The Bush administration issued a new rule Wednesday streamlining the planning process for the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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By Terence Chea THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge reinstated a ban Wednesday on road construction in nearly 50 million acres of pristine wilderness, overturning a Bush administration rule that could have cleared the way for more commercial activity in national forests.
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether forest products giant Weyerhaeuser Co. drove a smaller competitor out of business by paying too much for logs that Weyerhaeuser allegedly didn't need.
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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.
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By Mark Larabee, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 14--A federal appeals court sided with conservationists Monday in  their long-running battle with the U.S.
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The outcome of the legal challenge to the hunting ban is expected as judges give their ruling on its legitimacy.
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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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By TANIA SOUSSAN Journal Staff Writer  The Forest Service has changed the way it updates the management plans for each of its national forests, exempting itself from a major environmental law -- and the switch has some Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists angry.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 5 -- Using language that suggests they are fed up with the Bush administration, federal judges across the West have issued a flurry of rulings in recent weeks, chastising the government for repeated and sometimes willful failure to enforce laws protecting fish, forests, wildlife and...