Forest Service Releases Final Management Plan for the Monongahela National Forest ; Key Areas Left Unprotected; Conservationists Call on Delegation to Step In
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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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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - An enormous wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people continued to spread Monday, though winds didn't kick up as much as firefighters had feared, a Forest Service official said.
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By Crystal Bonvillian, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Feb. 12--MILLBROOK -- Millbrook officials are getting into the green.   The City Council is considering an ordinance that would establish an  urban forestry program to plan, plant and maintain trees throughout Millbrook.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 25--Forest fires that started in and near the Linville Gorge Wilderness in Burke County on June 8 are actively burning again due to dry conditions, U.S. Forest Service officials said.
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 4--Ann Jennings left the Congaree Land Trust at the end of 2006, ready for the next stop on an environmental trip that began with recycling drives before placing her in the middle of the fight to save Congaree National Park.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 11--As President Bush boasts of increases in funding for national parks, his administration continues to take a few steps back in other areas related to the environment. Consider proposed funding for national wildlife refuges.
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The U.S. Forest Service will be gathering public comment this week on several rivers in Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties that have been proposed to be included in the National Wild and Scenic River system.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 6  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today said a record level of grant funding would be made available to help Pennsylvania's rural communities better guard against the threat of fires in forested, undeveloped and unprotected areas.
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By Kearns, Ethan  AMERICAN FORESTS joined with long-time partner The Nature Conservancy this fall to spruce up Spruce Mountain, the highest point in West Virginia and site of a Global ReLeaf Forest.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002 wildfire in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
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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 Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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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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The US Forest Service, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, is shifting its focus from timber-cutting to recreation and ecological restoration
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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 Blair Goldstein, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Sep. 6--Ted Harris said his dream is to preserve patches of forestland  across the state.   A recent grant awarded to the 500-Year Forest Foundation marks one of the  first steps to his long-term vision.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  LINVILLE GORGE, N.C. - Two wildfires have charred more than 1,200 acres of the parched Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, officials said today.