Relaxed forest rules revive West&#39;s timber wars
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Forest rules issued this week by the Bush administration are just the latest chapter in a decades-long debate over how to manage millions of acres of public land.
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Tree farmer Kent Hinson says he is out on a limb when it comes to his pro-environment view. &quot;Most foresters in general look at the environmentalists as an adversary, as a group
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The Bush administration issued comprehensive new rules yesterday for managing the national forests, jettisoning some environmental protections that date to Ronald Reagan&#39;s administration
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With wildfires burning in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Nevada this week, the firestorm over the Bush administration's logging policies continued, and the man in the middle of it all was Mark E. Rey.
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ROME -- The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a UN agency said yesterday.
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RHINELANDER, Wis. -- There is something slightly eerie about the rings of white pipes and wooden crosses that loom up suddenly here in the lush northern forest.
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Quietly last year, after a round of harsh criticism, a Bush  administration proposal to sell national forest land appeared to die.  The sales would have generated funds to extend for five years a program that directed money to rural localities with forest land within their boundaries.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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Ability of forests to soak up man-made carbon dioxide is weakening as world warms, according to analysis
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By Journal Staff and Wire  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 Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--The event wasn't very eventful: watching two hard-hat-wearing, chainsaw-wielding men cutting the tree until the large cottonwood began to creak, then lean, and then with "thud ... crackle, crackle," it was down.
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Bob Briggsâ wifeâs family has owned about 1,000 acres of redwood forest off Waddell Creek since 1913. He doesnât clearcut, and logs about once a decade.
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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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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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Tree rustlers are striking across the country, probably prompted by the rise in timber value and the increase in worldwide demand for American hardwood.
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We're hesitant to join in the huzzahs coming from choruses of conservationists and New Mexico politicians over yesterday's reinstatment of the "roadless rule" in America's national forests. A short sigh of relief will do for now.