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           Also, see what was new June 12-13, June 9-11, and June 8.

• May 16-31 News Links

• Forest Service Mulls Major Policy Change - Draft eliminates priority given to ecosystem health, Las Vegas SUN
• U.S. Timber Program Posts Record Losses, Environment News Service
• Full Committee Approves Interior Spending Bill ,Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
• Recreational Fee Demonstration Program Phase II, Committee on Appropriations
• FY 2002 Wildland Fire Funding, Committee on Appropriations
• A respected FS social scientist has been officially forbidden from talking about fee-demo, New England Public Forest Advocates
• S.1011 Sec. 202. National Parks Stewardship Act seeks to make federal Recreational Fee Program permanent, Library of Congress
• New England Public Forest Advocates, (NEPFA)
• Forest Service Weekly Report for the week of June 10, 2001, FSX
• Consumers Take Action to Save Forests Through WoodWise Consumer Guide, Co-op America
• Fire strategy should be to return forests to state of equilibrium, Missoulian
• Does President Clinton's Roadless Lands Directive Violate the Spirit of the National Forest Management Act of 1976?, Alaska Law Review
• Expert sees helicopter risk - The model faulted in a wrongful-death verdict is still being flown, as many as 200 are in use, Press-Enterprise Inland Empire
• Bell Helicopter to Appeal Jury Award, New York Times
• Firefighting is a cult in the West, WOTR/ Matt Jenkins
• Excerpts from "Wildfire and Salvage Logging" by Dr. Robert Beschta, Friends of the Bitterroot

• Morning Fire Report, [link fixed] USFS National Incident Information Center
• Wildland Fire News Page

• Report Rejects Disciplining of Parks Officials in Wildfire, New York Times
• Los Alamos Blaze Blamed on Policy, AP
• Cerro Grande fire blamed on weak policies, Santa Fe New Mexican
• Report Clears Employees in Cerro Grande Fire, Albuquerque Journal
• Officials look to prevent wildfires, New Mexican
• Park Service to train to prevent more fires like Cerro Grande, Albuquerque Tribune
• Fee-demo protest ends in debate, New Hampshire Courier
• Fees pester outdoor enthusiasts, The Olympian

• Extinction Rider Dies in House Subcommittee, Environment News Service
• Skeen Appropriations Committee Blocks Bush ESA Plan, Albuquerque Journal
• Bosworth: "We have to get our act together first", Evergreen Magazine
• The U.S. Forest Service - What Now?, by Jack Ward Thomas
• Survey of Supervisors Finds Little Movement Toward 'Managing for Results' , Washington Post
• Record Losses For the U.S. Timber Program - New study finds U.S. Forest Service downplays problem, Taxpayers for Common Sense
• Forest Service Weekly Report for the week of June 3, 2001, FSX
• Off-roaders tear through the Colville National Forest - Heavy use in sensitive areas damages land, water, The Spokesman-Review
• Forest Service Chief Assumes Power Over Roadless Areas, Environment News Service
• Forest memo stirs 'roadless' issue, MSNBC
• Forest Service memo welcomed - Local input sought on 'roadless rule', Mesabi Daily News
• US Forest Service chief to proceed with road ban, Reuters Planet Ark
• Forest Service chief takes control of road decisions on pristine lands, Billings Gazette AP
• Protest the GE Tree Industry - Keep Our Forests Free of Genetic Pollution - July 21/22, Portland, Global Alliance Against Genetically Engineered Trees
• Dead Trees Standing, Los Angeles Times
• Resources for the Future -- Forests, website
• The Role of Wood Removals in Sustainable Forest Management in the United States, USFS Marlin Johnson and Barry Bollenbacher, with Dr. Hal Salwasser
• Natural directions- Green maps for the environment, CS Monitor

• Bosworth Issues Interim Rule on USFS Roads Policy - On May 31, Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth issued an interim rule extending the deadline for forest managers to comply with the new roads rule's roads analysis process. The roads analysis process is a science-based analysis for road construction, reconstruction and decommissioning. The rule contained a July 12, 2001 deadline for individual road projects and forest plan revisions or amendments to comply, but Bosworth extended that deadline to Jan. 12, 2002. Bosworth said in a May interview that changes also are expected for the portion of the roads rule that gives interim guidelines for managing roadless areas prior to the implementation of the roadless rule. The agency will collect public comments on the changes when a notice is published in the Federal Register later this month. Mike Anderson, senior resource analyst for the Wilderness Society, called the agency's move a "troubling pattern of incremental weakening of the [past] administration's reforms." Skid Marks, Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads

• Forest Chief Will Make Logging Decisions, New York Times
• Forest Chief Takes Road Decisions, Las Vegas SUN
• Forest Chief Directs Leadership To Uphold Roadless Values, USFS
• Interim Protection of Roadless Areas / Delegation of Authority, USFS Chief Bosworth letter
• Panel Rejects Bush Plan on Species, New York Times
• Allocating Cooperative Forestry Funds to the States, Pinchot Institute Report
• Executive Summary of Coop Forestry Report to the USFS and the full Coop Forestry Report [PDF], Pinchot Institute Report
• Moderate logging benefits some rare forest plants, conservation study shows, ENN.com
• Hunter Mountain Paintings Spurred Recovery of Land, New York Times
• Energy plan eyes the Rockies, High Country News
• Pro, Cons Of Privatizing Federal Land, Salt Lake Tribune

• The Forest Service's Role in Fostering Sustainability, USFS Chief Dale Bosworth speech
• Former Pioneering National Forest Supervisor Injured in Automobile Accident, Western Watersheds Project
• Appeals court rejects logging case appeal, Duluth Tribune
• Appeals court upholds decision on lawsuit against logging opponents, Star-Tribune
• Endangered Species Act Threatened by Devolution - Ranchers Scheme to Take Over Program for Big Bucks, Stumps Don't Lie
• Dangerous harvests? Forest Service studying whether popularity of beargrass is harming ecosystem, Spokesman-Review
• 'The Botany of Desire': How Grasses Use People to Fight Trees, New York Times
• Trail Building and Maintenance - Tool Trailer Specs For B.O.B. Yak Trailer, IMBA Resources
• Government's attack on the logging industry, Elko Daily Free Press
• Environmentalism meets a fierce friend - Tom Knudson , High Country News - Ed Marston
• Draft of 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy on Wildfire Presented to Congress, The Wilderness Society
• Wildfire crews depleted - Agencies resort to raiding each other's best , Az. Republic

• New Forest Service chief has Sierra Nevada roots, Fresno Bee
• Forest of human obstacles deadly for migrating birds, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Watch as the polluted world turns, MSNBC
• Court blocks timber sales, saying government studies inadequate, Las Vegas Sun AP
• Clinton Forest Chief Joins National Wildlife Federation, Environment News Service
• Dombeck Named NWF Senior Fellow, National Wildlife Federation
• New FS chief has no big plans to increase logging, Mercury News interview
• Agency's new chief moves in, makes changes, Pfleger AP

• Feds get incentive to list species, Contra Costa Times
• Green groups offer to limit suits for deal on species list, Tucson Citizen
• Safeguarding Citizen Rights under the ESA, [PDF] Center for Biological Diversity
• Bush Budget's Fine Print Includes Death Warrant For Endangered Species - Budget Guts Citizen Enforcement Of ESA, US Newswire
• Hundreds of Scientists, Citizen Groups, Blast Bush Proposal on Endangered Species Act, Endangered Species Coalition
• Days of the Alpha Wolf - Why we make deals with developers on endangered species, Tucson Weekly - Endangered Species Series
• Tit for Tat - The Endangered Species Act is a Republican Plot, Tucson Weekly
• The Next Holocaust - The real story on endangered species, Tucson Weekly
• Saving Endangered Species by 'Re-Creating Habitat'? Let's Not Fool Ourselves, Daily Camera
• Some unexpected relief for endangered species, CS Monitor

• Forest Magazine - March/April 2001 issue - Now available online

• FSEEE Guide to Free Speech in the Forest Service Workplace

• Check out Eco-Watch Dialogues, an Internet site where FS employees and the public can discuss current FS policy and methods, and new proposals for management of our National Forests. Sponsored by Dave Iverson and Mark Garland.

• Mountain of wood threatens to cause widespread sawmill shutdowns, Vancouver Sun
• Softwood uncertainty prompts Canadian cutbacks, CNET.com
• Lumber prices post more gains, Post-Intelligencer
• Forest Fires Are Blazing In Far East, Pravda
• Cambodia logging reform hampered by corruption - NGO, Planet Ark
• Cameroon cracks down on unruly logging companies, Planet Ark
• Minho awaiting approval for FSC green timber sourcing, The Star
• Biodiversity makes Sichuan an agricultural paradise, The Register-Guard

• Full-page Ad in June 7th New York Times Targets BOISE CASCADE, Rainforest Action Network
• The RAN New York Times Ad, Rainforest Action Network
• Lumber prices plunge 15%, Prince George Citizen
• Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum Calls for Strong Leadership, Releases Major Report, Forest Conservation Portal
• United Nations Reports North American Forests Are Growing, Yahoo

• Politicians behind timber thieves, Minister Wijesekera
• Cambodia rejects logging report, BBC News
• Would-be illegal loggers warned off, Bangkok Post
• Trees are Beijing's key to Olympic-caliber air quality, The Register-Guard Commentary
• Wijaya to diversify into oil palm and reforestation, The Star
• While the Globe Burns, the UN Fiddles, Forest Conservation Portal
• Global Alliance Against GE Trees, GAAGET
• Earnings fall dramatically for B.C. forest companies, Vancouver Sun
• Canada optimistic about deal on lumber - Eastern producers want export duties exemption renewed, Ottawa Citizen

• Global ecosystem study launched on World Environment Day, ENN.com
• Croatia Safeguards Old Growth Forests, Environment News Service
• Timber smuggling going unchecked in Kodagu District, The Hindu
• More Forest Fires In Siberia, Pravda
• Death Wish - Humanity on the verge of self-destruction, Globe and Mail 4-part series
• We, too, shall pass, Globe and Mail
• Prehistoric humans blamed for mass extinctions, ENN.com
• Early humans ate their way through species - Megafauna in America, Australia were killed off over time, studies say, SF Chronicle
• The man with a plan to save the planet, Globe and Mail

• United Nations Secretary-General announces $21 million study of planet ecosystem, Salt Lake Tribune
• Timber group urges campaign to push demand, Planet Ark
• Poll: Saving Forest Is Top Priority in Amazon, ABC News
• Cool, wet weather brings Chisholm fire under control, Edmonton Journal
• Pattison increases stake in Canfor, Vancouver Sun
• Forest Dept. fails to preserve tanks, The Hindu
• Rebels massacre Indian forestry workers in cold blood, ABC News
• Hun Sen frees 16 Thai timber poachers, Bangkok Post
• Congo - Peace Leads to Loggers' Retrun, Black World Today
• Seeing a Forest for the Trees - Plans to protect a fabled old-growth region in Poland for tourism have locals who depend on logging up in arms, Los Angeles Times
• Chile's battleground of culture vs. profit - Logging industry grows a forest of controversy on tracts claimed by indigenous people, CS Monitor
• Climate change may spark more monster forest fires, Edmonton Journal
• Buffalo Lake rescued from 'hell', Edmonton Journal

• New Zealand - A Momentous Decision - Govt to transfer all indigenous forests from Timberlands, Inc. to the Dept. of Conservation, West Coast Forests' Announcement - Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society
• Govt Announcement On The Future For West Coast Indigenous Forests, NewsRoom - Conservation Minister Sandra Lee's Speech
• The Forestry Industry in the State of Chihuahua - Economic, Ecological and Social Impacts Post-NAFTA, Texas Center For Policy Studies
• NAFTA Forestry Report, [PDF] Texas Center For Policy Studies
• Raiding the Rain Forest - U.S. demand for finished wood is growing, Philadelphia Inquirer, last of 3 parts
• Logging fuels crimes, corruption in Cameroon, Philadelphia Inquirer, part 2 of 3
• Large firms dominate logging trade, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Raiding the Rain Forest - For a global treasure, a new threat, Philadelphia Inquirer, part 1 of 3

• Partial List of Legislation affecting the US Forest Service - Bill Summary & Status, 107th Congress

• The House Committee on Resources has tentatively scheduled the following business for the month of June 2001

• The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has tentatively scheduled the following business for the month of June 2001

• Live Audio Broadcasts Of U.S. House Committee On Resources Hearings
  Available Via The Internet at this website - http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/audio.htm

  The latest news of Congress and Washington -

• S.1011 Sec. 202. National Parks Stewardship Act seeks to make Recreational Fee Program permanent
• Full Committee Approves Interior Spending Bill ,Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
• Recreational Fee Demonstration Program Phase II, Committee on Appropriations
• Agriculture secretary to view Cal. fire damage, Redding Record Searchlight
• Fiddling while parks burn, Denver Post
• Welcome to the National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA Decisions
• Turner blasts Bush on environment, ENN.com
• Inside Al Gore's Head, New York Times

• The Mining of the West - A Seattle P-I Special Report, Post Intelligencer
• Powerful friends in Congress, Post Intelligencer
• A good deal for miners often isn't for Uncle Sam, Post Intelligencer
• More than a century of mining has left the West deeply scarred, Post Intelligencer
• Administration reviews mining rule, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Anchorage Daily News
• The General Mining Act of 1872 has left a legacy of riches and ruin, Post Intelligencer

• Hatch's Lost Power Makes Hansen Utah's Point Man in Congress, Salt Lake Tribune
• Hansen, 10 House Members Announce National Monument Fairness Act, House Resources Committee
• GOP proposes monument bill, Daily Camera
• Shrub Flubs His Dub, Molly Ivins in The Nation
• Jeffords set to butt heads with Bush over environment, Tucson Citizen
• Bush robbing Peter to pay Paul, some say, Tucson Citizen
• Tax law aids conservation easements, Billings Gazette AP
• Bush Opens 40,000 Federal Workers' Jobs to Competition, Washington Post
• Fed webmasters - 508 relief is on the way, Federal Computer Week
• Interior tests system to bring order to FOIA, Federal Computer Week

• Fiscal Year 2002 Interior and Related Agencies Budget, Society of American Foresters
• S.978 - Outfitter Policy Act of 2001, Library of Congress
• Wyden Takes Over Two Key Subcommittees, KGW.COM
• Agencies wrangle with E-FOIA requests, Federal Computer Week
• E-mail overload, Federal Computer Week

• Smarter Tree-Huggers, Competitive Enterprise Institute in National Review
• Bush picks Dorr - "pariah of Marcus," Iowa - for ag post in rural development, Planet Ark
• Rancher says Bush plan bad for environment, consumers, The Wilderness Society
• Oil and Gas Drilling in Wilderness No Answer to US Energy Problems, The Wilderness Society
• A Tiger by the Tail, NY Times
• Chairman Hansen Closely Follows Antiquities Act in Proposing Small National Monument in Southern Utah; Locals voice support regarding dinosaur tracks monument, House Resources Committee
• Drilling in the dead of winter, Idaho Mountain Express

• Free-Market Environmentalists Gaining Stature, Washington Post
• Bush Ratifying Clinton's Eco-Fascist Agenda, The New American
• Bush Among the Redwoods, CS Monitor
• Bush's green posturing isn't fooling anyone, Seattle Times

• GAO - Web privacy guidelines not clear, Federal Computer Week
• Internet Privacy - Implementation of Federal Guidance for Agency Use of "Cookies", [PDF] GAO-01-424
• Section 508 Web Accessibility Seminar, Macromedia
• Water rights - Forest service ends high-handed policy, Rocky Mountain News: Opinion
• Forest Service water policy reversed, Denver Post
• USFS water rights policy might shift under Bush, Daily Camera
• Joint Oversight Hearing on "Bypass Flows" on National Forest Lands, Resources Committee
• Staff Briefing Memorandum - "Bypass Flows" on National Forest Lands, Resources Committee

• Resources Committee Democratic Agenda For the 107th Congress, Resources Committee
• Congress Watch, LCV
• McKinney brings National Forest Protection and Restoration Act before Congress, Business Journal of Portland
• HR 1494 - NFPRA Bill - Brief Synopsis, [Word Doc]
• HR 1494 - NFPRA Bill - Summary, [Word Doc]
• Analysis of HR 1494 - National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, Native Forest Council [Word doc]
• National Forest Protection and Restoration Act - HR 1494, Library of Congress
• Movement to End Commercial Logging in National Forests Gains Historic Congressional Support, Sierra Club

• Forest Tax Relief Act - HR 1139 - To terminate the participation of the Forest Service in the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program, Library of Congress
• Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) introduced the "Forest Access Immediate Relief Act of 2001" (HR 908), a bill to terminate the fee charged for access to National Forests and offset the lost revenue by eliminating subsidies to the timber industry for building roads and logging in national forests.

NORTHERN REGION (Region 1): Montana and Northern Idaho  

• Arbor activism: The lives and times of tree-sitters - Movement growing that aims to prevent loggers from harvesting timber, Missoulian
• Sage grouse hold steady, as habitat diminishes - FS has signed MOU with the state that limits its ability to burn sagebrush, Montana Standard in Billings Gazette

• Off-roaders tear through the Colville National Forest - Heavy use in sensitive areas damages land, water - NO CITATIONS ISSUED, The Spokesman-Review
• Rainbows will select site today, The Spokesman-Review
• Development near Yellowstone denied, The Register-Guard
• Buried in brush - Residents work together to begin clearing neighborhoods of tree limbs, Missoulian
• Calypso orchid provides dash of pink to forest floor, Missoulian
• Bison tracking aids research on disease, Contra Costa Times
• Salvaging sagebrush, The Spokesman-Review

• EPA comments on draft, final EIS's - Clean Slate Ecosystem Management Project, Aquatic and Terrestrial Restoration, Nez Perce National Forest, Salmon River Ranger District, Idaho County, ID.
  Summary: EPA expressed concerns regarding purpose and need, alternatives, environmental monitoring, cumulative impacts, prescribed burning, and Clean Water Act TMDL protocols. EPA has requested inclusion of a more easy to follow statement of overriding purpose and need; the addition of a no-grazing alternative that includes active habitat restoration; the addition of specific and enforceable standards; thresholds and responsible parties for environmental monitoring; additional detail on implementation and contingencies for the prescribed burning program; additional analysis of cumulative impacts, and more detail on the process to be used for addressing TMDL protocols. - ESWR, Federal Register

• Home Fires Burning - Bitterrooters offer their own alternative to the big timber sale, Missoula Independent
• Fuel for the Fire - "Differing sciences" weigh in on the feds' Bitterroot forest plan, Missoula Independent
• McGrath steps into roadless appeal , Billings Gazette
• Montana attorney general differs with governor, defends road ban, Seattle Times

• Report documents health risks from smoke exposure, Missoulian
• Forest fire smoke tied to health problems, Billings Gazette
• Forest Service to inspect herbicide area, Missoulian
• Anti-logging bid argued in federal court, Billings Gazette
• Ex-Forest Service chief JWT to speak June 21, The Spokesman-Review
• Draft Bitterroot EIS will be discussed, Missoulian
• Montana must keep preparing for fire, drought, Billings Gazette Opinion
• Martz' words cloud debate on roadless designation, Billings Gazette Opinion
• Trees, power lines take a fall, Missoulian
• Big Hole bounces back from Rainbows' visit - Ranger Dennis Havig says land is healing, Missoulian
• Funding hike has crews prepared for fire season, Spokesman-Review
• Dangerous harvests? - Forest Service studying whether popularity of beargrass is harming ecosystem, Spokesman-Review
• This energy plan is as solid as natural gas, WOTR/ Jon Margolis
• Charges dropped against timber theft suspect, Spokesman-Review

• Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF to prepare EIS on Lime Kiln Timber Sale, Federal Register
• Tin Cup overfloweth at taxpayers' expense, Missoula Independent
• Drilling clash resurfaces for Lewis & Clark NF, Great Falls Tribune
• Time to dust off wilderness bill, Missoulian Editorial
• Bitterroot forest - Environmentalists say let nature heal itself, Missoulian
• Judge tells Forest Service to restore public lands, Billings Gazette
• Forest Service ordered to maintain, restore wilderness study areas - Judge says agency has 'abused its discretion', Missoulian

• Current Bitterroot National Forest News and Information
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• Current News Releases from the Helena National Forest
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• Northern Region News Releases

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