Rule Allowing Logging Roads Rejected
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By Anonymous  National forests will return to having environmental protections that were given to them during the Clinton Administration due to a court ruling in September. U.S.
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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.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr.; Journal Staff Writer  The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a "superseding order" that overrules the town Conservation Commission's rejection of a plan by Weaver's Cove.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A San Francisco man who got stranded with his family in the snowy wilderness had taken a wrong turn in the car down a logging road that is normally blocked by a gate, but vandals had cut the lock, authorities said Friday.
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For the chance to recount nervy tales of outdoor machismo, many backcountry enthusiasts will risk nearly everything. Blocking off dangerous areas won't deter them, nor will frightening signs.
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By Mary Divine, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 5--The Sierra Club is going to court to stop a proposed new bridge across the St. Croix River, arguing the project is an improper retooling by the Bush Administration of a plan rejected by the National Park Service in the 1990s.
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By THOMAS CONTENT and LEE BERGQUIST  In a setback for the state's largest utility, a Dane County circuit judge has ruled that a water permit for the $2.2 billion power plant under construction in Oak Creek does not comply with a recent federal appeals court decision.
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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 Mike Torralba, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--MONROE -- The City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal that would have loosened restrictions on the number of duplexes in Monroe's historic residential district.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.  Last month, the Land Department rejected an administrative appeal filed by the county in December.
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By Vesna Peric Zimonjic  BELGRADE, Dec. 9, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Construction of a major highway in western Romania that threatens to destroy the precious Retezat and Domogled natural reserve parks has been stopped, at least for now.
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By GREG EDWARDS  A state Senate committee rejected a request by Buchanan County residents to limit the dumping of salty mine water into a tributary of the Ohio River.  Consolidation Coal Co. has received a state permit to dump salty water from its Buchanan No.
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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 Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  May 26--Two months after Thurston County issued a favorable environmental ruling on a grading permit for a proposed 25-foot-wide private road off Steamboat Island Road, county officials took it back for a do-over.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  Girl Scouts and their leaders opposed to the sale of a beloved waterfront camp last night applauded a county Board of Supervisors proposal to limit development on the property.
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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.