by Web Editor | Sep 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
The United States Fish & Wildlife Service will make a final decision by next April about whether the northern long-eared bat deserves to be listed as an endangered species – it has already said it believes it does – and some environmentalists appear ready to use...
by Web Editor | Aug 11, 2014 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists are concerned that forest thinning south of Flagstaff to protect water supplies would harm three breeding pairs of Mexican spotted owls that live there. The Arizona Daily Sun reports that Mormon Mountain is being considered for restorative thinning....
by Web Editor | Jun 13, 2014 | News, News/PR
A Montana federal judge has ruled that the Gallatin National Forest can log certain sections of trees that were burned in the Millie Fire two years ago. Last week, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen of Missoula ruled that two environmental groups failed to prove...
by Web Editor | Dec 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A federal judge has refused to stop timber harvest and fuel reduction treatments on 2,600 acres of an Idaho national forest. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service approved the Little Slate Project in the Nez Perce National Forest to improve aquatic habitats and other...
by Web Editor | Oct 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Rough and Ready Sawmill was an institution in southern Oregon for 91 years. Its lumber helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and settle the rural West. Now, it sits empty, the last of 22 mills in Josephine County to shut down for good, signaling the end...
