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• Perspectives on Industrial Forestry, Certification, and the AF&PA "Sustainable Forestry Initiative", American Lands
• Environmentalists say oil, gas potential of roadless areas poor, San Francisco Chronicle AP
• Gas, oil estimates in U.S. West too high, says green group, ENN - Reuters
• Energy and Western Wildlands - A GIS Analysis of Eonomically Recoverable Oil and Gas, The Wilderness Society
• Energy Development Fragments Public Lands, Environment News Service
• Fragmenting Our Lands -The Ecological Footprint from Oil and Gas Development, The Wilderness Society
• Agency's budget ravaged - Fire costs force Forest Service to take from other programs, Missoulian
• Striking the Right Balance - Coming to Terms with Change in National Forest Management, [Word doc] USFS Chief Bosworth speech
• NEPA on the ropes, Earthjustice
• Shadow creatures - Urban wildlife is teaching us something about what we've lost, High Country News
• Freedom of the press is eroding before our eyes, WOTR/ Stephen J. Lyons
• Amazon Deforestation Could Change U.S. Rainfall, Environment News Service
• Study examines social toll of fires, Helena Independent Record
• Road conditions, driver inexperience led to firefighter deaths, San Francisco Chronicle AP
• Boise and Customers Under Fire for Old Growth Destruction, Rainforest Action Network
• Former Aspen journalist's new book targets ski industry - Forest Service has become partners with the ski industry instead of regulators guarding public lands, Aspen Times

• Grazing Program Costs Taxpayers Millions, Environment News Service
• Report: Federal Grazing Costs Taxpayers $500 Million to $1 Billion a Year, Western Watersheds Project
• Ranches underpay to graze public land, study says, Contra Costa Times
• Study Finds Full Cost of Federal Grazing Program May Exceed $500 Million, Center for Biological Diversity
• Assessing the Full Cost of the federal Grazing Program, [PDF] Center for Biological Diversity
• The Buffalo Commons, Albuquerque Tribune
• Forest Service agrees to hire more Latinos - Lawsuit settlement reached, San Francisco Chronicle
• Suit Seeks Information on Forest Regulation Revisions, Environment News Service
• Greens seek White House forestry documents, United Press International
• Suit Seeks to Reveal Bush Ties to Timber Industry, Defenders of Wildlife - U.S. Newswire
• Senate Panel Faults Bush Efforts to Rewrite Clinton Environmental Regulations, Washington Post - Heilprin AP
• Panel Assails Bush's Environmental Record, Washington Post
• Senate Report on Environmental Rollbacks , US Senate
• Bush's plan would help forest industry, Memphis Commercial Appeal
• Air tanker industry promises reforms after twin crashes, but says more federal money needed, San Francisco Chronicle
• October 11th FS Today, USFS
• Officials tout forest change, Rapid City Journal
• New shades to fall-color research - what's in it for the trees?, CS Monitor
• A Historian's Search for the World's Rarest, Oldest Trees, Washington Post
• Experts say Western wildfires will only get more expensive, San Francisco Chronicle
• Wildfire risk not easily defined, scientist says, Missoulian - Barnard AP
• Forest reforms under fire, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
• Former Forest Service chief Jack Ward Thomas says the 'quick fix' is a poor policy for forests, San Francisco Chronicle
• Fire-trol is back! - Ban on poisonous retardant short-lived, San Francisco Chronicle

• Judge Rules National Forest Livestock Grazing Program in NM and AZ Threatens Mexican spotted owl, Violates ESA, Forest Guardians
• Public Lands Ranchers Heading for the Last Roundup, VegNews - Rangenet
• Fee demo on our public lands is a rip-off, WOTR/ Michael Frome
• You pay your money, you get your recreation, WOTR/ J. Bishop Grewell
• Reply to WOTR Grewell, HCN Bulletin board
• Of mice and me, or how I paid a fee and built a better mousetrap, WOTR/ David Feela
• ‘Privatize Federal Lands’ says Newest Nobel Laureate, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
• Environmentalists should focus on demand for timber, Post Intelligencer
• Dispute Keeps Wildfire Bill in Limbo, Washington Post - Daly AP
• Not All is Black Inside the Nation's Biggest Wildfire, Barnard AP - New Mexican
• Bright-Eyed, Bushy-Tailed and Rotten - The Squirrel as a Forest Mascot or Meditative Object? Are They Nuts?, Washington Post
• After a series of tragic fires, loggers go on the offensive, E/The Environmental Magazine
• Forest Service air tankers called inviting targets for terrorists, Washington Post AP
• Burn It to Save It, Los Angeles Times Magazine

• Bush administration seeks to ease forest survey rules, Coos Bay World - Daly AP
• Forest protection under the knife - Industry pushes Bush administration to revise Northwest Forest Plan, High Country News
• Group Seeks Forest Regulation Data, Yahoo! News
• Bush Administration Forest Regs Track Industry 'Wish List' - Legal Steps to Reveal Timber Industry Input, Defenders Of Wildlife
• Draft Bush Administration NFMA Regulations, [PDF] Federal Register
• Bush Proposal Undermines Over 20 Years of Science-Based Regulatory Protection for National Forest Wildlife, [PDF] Defenders of Wildlife
• Analysis of Draft Forest Service Planning Regulations, [PDF] Defenders of Wildlife
• Save National Forest Wildlife Fact Sheet, Defenders of Wildlife
• Help Save The Forests from proposed NFMA regulation changes, Defenders of Wildlife
• Proposed National Forest Regulations, Defenders of Wildlife
• Bush diluting ESA law, environmentalists say, Sierra Times AP
• Appeals Court Upholds Monuments' Legal Standing, Environment News Service
• Federal Judge Rules Against Animals, First Amendment, Animal Protection Institute
• Judge dismisses suit against ranchers who use protective livestock collars, Sierra Times AP
• Administration Attacks on the National Forests - Forest protections and public participation are being threatened in a growing number of areas, [Word doc] American Lands Alliance

• Forest Planning Ambush - The Bush administration may eliminate requirements to protect wildlife on national forests, by Gloria Flora in Defenders Magazine
• Stehekin project takes the forests back 100 years, Seattle Times
• Timber sale cooperation pays off, Statesman Journal
• Critics fear forest proposals would curtail review, Seattle Times
• Forest Service stingy with aerial firefighters, firms say, Billings Gazette
• Outdated air tanker blamed on feds, Denver Post
• Safety expensive, firm says - Owner of troubled air-tanker outfit says contracts insufficient, Rocky Mountain News
• Military planes may enter wildfire 'war', Rocky Mountain News
• Forest Service relies on 'piggy banks' to fight fires, Tahoe Daily Tribune
• Incentives, Not Fuels, Are Endangering Forests, Randall O'toole in Environment & Climate News
• President's Plan Will Cost Billions, But Won't Stop Fires, Thoreau Institute
• Reforming the Fire Service, Thoreau Institute
• Fire- Just Another Pork Barrel, Thoreau Institute
• Wildlife Watching Larger Economic Sector than Public Lands Grazing in the West, Public Lands Ranching
• A discouraging word is heard, United Press International
• Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests, NLE Abstract - Congressional Research Service Report
• A U.S. Agency Is Accused of Collusion in Land Deals, New York Times

• Congress unlikely to act on forest pass by end of year, Ventura County Star
• Get Rid of Fees, Coos Bay World - Daily Astorian
• Administration proposal eliminates environmental protections for national forests, TWS Newsroom
• 300 scientists debate wildfires, environment at Tahoe sessions, San Francisco Chronicle
• Experts Weigh in on Fire Prevention, The Columbian
• Forest Thinning Bill Passes House Committee, Environment News Service
• House panel approves controversial forest-thinning plan, Oregonian
• Environmental Lawyers Oppose Forest Thinning Plan - Run, Forests, Run, The Denver Channel
• Assistant USDA secretary Rey cancels Tahoe trip, Reno Gazette Journal
• Future uncertain for wildfire prevention deal after Dems bolt, San Francisco Chronicle
• At Loggerheads Over Forest Plan - Bush Proposal Splits Environmentalists, Democrats , Washington Post
• Forest debate sows seeds of progress, Missolian editorial
• Don’t gut environmental act, professors ask, Missoulian
• National Network of Forest Practitioners - 2002 Annual Meeting, NNFP
• New BLM Group Oversees Forest Projects , Environment News Service
• Wildfire planes on hot seat, Az. Daily Star
• Report- Forest service manager Jeanine Derby not preserving Los Padres National Forest cultural resources, San Diego Union Tribune AP
• Archaeological Treasures Ruined in Los Padres National Forest- Report: Supervisor Retaliated Against Employee Whistleblowers, PEER
• Ruined Relics - Crumbling Cultural Resource Protection in the Los Padres NF, [PDF] California PEER

• GeorgeWBuy -- America on the Auction Block!, Public Campaign

• Forester Jim Furnish touts thinning as solution to debate, Eugene Register-Guard
• Forest wars, part 2 - President Bush's forest initiative has reignited the Northwest's battle over old-growth logging, Eugene Register-Guard
• 'Hotshots' Are Under Fire for Racy Photos, Los Angeles Times
• Support the president's timber initiative, Helena NF supervisor Tom Clifford guest opinion - Montana Standard
• Getting a handle on wildfire conditions - Mark Rey interviewed, Journal Sentinel
• Work starts on crafting Bush fire plan, Ravalli Republic
• DeFazio, Walden join forces in creating plan to thin forests, Oregonian
• Don't rush forest plan - DeFazio bill an improvement but needs work, Register Guard editorial
• Miller forest proposal would spare more trees than Bush, Contra Costa Times
• Corporate accounting at the Forest Service?, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel editorial
• Park Wars - It's the snowmobilers (and the recreation industry) against the high-country hikers (and the environmentalists) in the battle for the future of America's parkland (and soul), by Jon Margolis
• Ecoterror's troubling trend, CS Monitor
• High fire costs blamed on development, fuel buildup, Daily Interlake

• Wildfire Report Wrong, Groups Say - Environmentalists, Forest Service agree that fire report was rushed, figures were off, Washington Post - Gehrke AP
• Freedom of Information Act Request Reveals Info for July U.S. Forest Service 'Report' was Gathered in Hours - Questionable report continues to be used by Bush Administration, Forest Service and pro-logging members of Congress to call for more logging, less public involvement, Native Forest Network
• FOIA response from the U.S. Forest Service re Wildfire Report, Native Forest Network
• Forest Trust Slams USFS Thinning Report, Abq. Journal
• A Comparison of Two Government Reports on Factors Affecting Timely Fuel Treatment Decisions, [PDF] The Forest Trust
• House Democrats say Forest Service skewed forest fuel treatment figures, Post-Intelligencer - Gehrke AP
• House Democrats, Republicans strike deal on forest treatments, San Francisco Chronicle - Gehrke AP
• Forest thinning bill makes headway, MSNBC
• Forest-thinning pact up for vote, Denver Post
• Forest thinning plan advances, Denver Post
• Bi-Partisan Forest Management Policy Announcement, Statement by the Honorable George Miller
• HR.5319 - Amended forest management bill language, Center for Biological Diversity
• Urgent! Your immediate action required to stop destructive legislation, Oregon Natural Resources Council
• Wildfires and Healthy Forests, Washington Post letters
• Where there's smoke, there's fire, Albuquerque Tribune - REP America
• Forest plan is another gambit to expand corporate welfare, Post Intelligencer
• Hard-Hit Monarch Butterflies Demonstrate Their Resilience, New York Times
• Trees can be ringers for cellphone towers, Seattle Times
• Heating up the Earth - The way we use land is altering weather patterns, CSU scientist says, Fort Collins Coloradoan
• FS Today - September 27, 2002, USFS
• Lumber output falls in West, Statesman Journal

• Amid Borrego Mesa Ashes, Conservation and Salvage, Santa Fe New Mexican
• Exploring other fire-danger options, Rocky Mountain News op-ed
• Bush, timber industry negotiate policy, News-Review
• White House seeks review shortcuts - Environmentalists fear loss of safeguards, San Francisco Chronicle
• Group of House members drafts forest policy bill, Oregonian
• Trekkers cross nation on public lands journey, Uinta County Herald
• Trek Called 'Greenwashing' Con, Salt Lake Tribune
• Spectacular crash brings new scrutiny to Forest Service firefighting planes, Nevada Appeal
• FAA orders inspections of tanker wing cracks, Helena Independent Record
• The really big picture - Ecologists are using an array of high-sky imaging technology, Albuquerque Tribune
• State of the Nation's Ecosystems - Data Missing , Environment News Service
• Holes in US environmental data hurt policymaking - study, Reuters - Planet Ark
• New Report on State of the Nation's Ecosystems, The H. John Heinz III Center
• National Network of Forest Practitioners meet in Montana November 6-9, [PDF] NNFP
• Fall Color Hotline, USDA Forest Service

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• Forest management behind native title claim, ABC News
• Brazil seizes illegal mahogany shipment in Amazon port city, ENN - AP
• Amazon Deforestation Could Change U.S. Rainfall, Environment News Service
• Brazil Pressed Not to Fell Rainforests, ABC News
• B.C. Forests employees face the axe, Globe and Mail
• Forest ministry cuts blasted, Prince George Citizen
• Lumber duties not helping in U.S. - Chechnya among those causing glut, National Post
• More international forest news - Forest Conservation Portal

• Samoa prepares to flatten its last lowland forest, Free Press Of Namibia
• Anti-logging protesters re-establish blockade, ABC Gippsland Victoria News
• Tree farms won't halt climate change, New Scientist
• Planting new forests good for environment? Think again , Straits Times
• The Amazon Fortress - Can technology alone save the rain forest?, MSNBC
• Poland Strengthens Its FSC Leadership in Central Europe - SmartWood completes pre-assessment of 800,000 hectares, Rainforest Alliance

• Finding Art, and a Cause, in the Forest, New York Times
• Depletion of India's forests raises environmental concerns, South Asia News
• Tropical Deforestation Monitored by Satellite, ENS
• Maroon tribe in Suriname produces map to claim land rights, halt logging , ENN
• Treetop tour the high point of Costa Rica vacation, Arizona Daily Star
• Small Victory for Spotted Owl in British Columbia, Environment News Service
• More trees to lock up carbon, International Herald Tribune
• Communities make forest carbon trading work, Nature
• Mountain Wildernesses: Increasingly Threatened by Farms, Roads, Fires and Wars, United Nations Environment Programme

• Logging halted in owl areas, The Province
• Interfor shuts down to spare owl habitat, Vancouver Sun
• B.C.'s spotted owl faces extinction, scientists warn, CBC News
• Ottawa can help best with a softwood deal, The Globe and Mail
• Ottawa plans $247m forest aid package, Victoria Times Colonist
• Mayors want more softwood aid from feds, Prince George Citizen
• Weyerhaeuser exits much Island logging, Vancouver Sun

• Wangari Maathai’s movement is built on the power of trees, E/The Environmental Magazine - ENN
• Land battle between farmers and forests turns deadly in West Africa, Environmental News Network AP
• 'Gardeners of the forest' under threat, IOL
• Smugglers decimate Mexican forests to make room for drug crops, San Francisco Chronicle
• Poachers damage another Negros forest reserve, ABS-CBN News
• Pine beetle package blasted as 'bizarre', Prince George Citizen
• Alberta producers praise lumber rescue, Edmonton Journal
• Softwood aid not enough, critics say, Prince George Citizen
• Two-year softwood fight plan, The Province
• The risk of doing nothing about forest fires, Vancouver Sun editorial
• Canada Gives Aid to Lumber Industry, Washington Post
• Manitoba forest target of global warming study, CTV News

• Forest profits fell 73 pct in '01, Vancouver Sun
• Spotted owl captured for its own protection, Vancouver Sun
• Illegal loggers and Forest Authority Managing Director doing secret deals in Malaysia, Masalai i tokaut

• Trees Fall in Canada's Forests, but U.S. Isn't Buying, New York Times
• Softwood aid still in works, feds tell mayor, Prince George Citizen
• Ottawa to assist lumber workers, Vancouver Sun
• Interfor to move cedar mill to U.S., Vancouver Sun
• Latvia's State Forest takes next step toward FSC certification, Rainforest Alliance
• Forest fires threaten Transbaikal National Park, Pravda.RU
• Chinese nursery to test resilience of Oregon's Douglas fir, Statesman Journal
• Coca snuffs out Peru forest, The Washington Times
• Hard-Hit Monarch Butterflies Demonstrate Their Resilience, New York Times

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

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  The latest news of Congress and Washington -

• NEPA on the ropes, Earthjustice
• Cut the red tape, and cut down trees, Sen. Larry Craig - Albuquerque Tribune
• USFS Stokes testimony on Federal Lands Highway Program TEA-21, USFS
• USFS Thompson testimony on HR 5102, HR 5185, and HR 5513, USFS

• Senate Panel Challenges Bush Regulatory Actions, Environment News Service
• Environmental Champion Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash, Environment News Service
• CEQ issues guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information from federal agencies, Federal Register
• Forest thinning bill makes for unusual alliance, Eugene Register-Guard
• 'Healthy Forest' plan earns mixed reviews, Mount Shasta News
• Bush plan restricts reviews, Mount Shasta News

• Senator says Park Service is retaliating against outspoken ranger, Freedom Forum AP
• Sen. Grassley Seeks Answers About National Park Service Whistleblower, PEER
• Guess what's the most dangerous government job?, Arizona Daily Sun
• Appeals Court Upholds Monuments' Legal Standing, Environment News Service
• Court of Appeals Upholds National Monuments, Earthjustice Newsroom
• Court Upholds Monument Protections, Washington Post AP
• Court affirms monuments, Medford Mail Tribune
• Secretary Norton’s buddies lose one, Daily Astorian
• Groups to further challenge monuments, Durango Herald
• U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer On the Importance of the Clean Water Act, Truthout
• The Clean Water Act at 30, New York Times editorial
• Bush Administration Policy Threatens Clean Water, Says New Report, Natural Resources Defense Council
• 30th Anniversary Finds Clean Water Act in Jeopardy, Environment News Service
• Democrats need to pick up their guns, Arizona Daily Sun
• DeFazio at center of timber dispute, Daly AP
• Thinning bill still flawed, Denver Post editorial
• Partisan dispute leaves wildfire bill in limbo, Missoulian - Daly AP
• House Fire Bill Would Promote Lawless Logging and Advance Administration's Agenda to Rollback Environmental Laws, [Word doc] American Lands Alliance
• Logging debate pits enviros against congressional ally, Aspen Times
• Invasive Species Overrun U.S. Wildlife Refuges , ENS
• Invasive Species - Clearer Focus and Greater Commitment Needed to Effectively Manage the Problem, [PDF] GAO-03-1
• If you can't beat ’em, eat ’em, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

• Forest health act OK'd in committee, Summit Daily News
• Forest Fire Bill in House, Endangered Species Coalition
• H.R.5341 - National Forest Fire Fuels Reduction Act - To authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take actions to promptly address the risk of fire and insect infestation in National Forest System lands, Library of Congress
• Feds to ease controls on water volume, Contra Costa Times
• Auditors Say U.S. Agencies Lose Track of Billions, New York Times
• Freedom of Information Act on the ropes - Ashcroft's new rules restrict access and threaten the public's right to know, Working for Change

• Forest Thinning Bill Passes House Committee, Environment News Service
• Resources Committee Passes H.R. 5319 as Amended by Reps. McInnis and Walden by a Bipartisan Vote of 23-14 - Negotiations will continue toward bipartisan sponsorship before floor vote, House Resources Committee
• Wilderness Society analysis of McInnis Bill (10/8), CBD
• Assistant USDA secretary Rey cancels Tahoe trip, Reno Gazette Journal
• At Loggerheads Over Forest Plan - Bush Proposal Splits Environmentalists, Democrats , Washington Post
• Fire pact an improvement, Denver Post editorial
• NRDC Calls on Bush Administration to Stop Its Attack on Clean Water Act, Natural Resources Defense Council
• OMB Lets Agencies Try Faster Outsourcing Studies, Federal Times
• New BLM Group Oversees Forest Projects , Environment News Service
• BLM Propposes Cost Recovery Regulation Changes, Needles Desert Star
• Beauty for Oil: Utah Land Swap Clears House, Environment News Service
• Appraisal Foundation Blasts Interior Land Exchanges - Call for Moratorium and Criminal Investigation, PEER
• BLM's Appraisal Processes Blistered , Salt Lake Tribune
• TNC Invasives Director Ann Bartuska is now Ecological Society of America President, ESA
• Can't we all just give a little out on the trail?, WOTR/ Mark Tokarski
• Park Service Forbids Off-duty Staff from Writing About Work Issues Without Approval - "Gag Order" Unconstitutional & Unworkable, Employee Group Says, PEER

• McInnis, others compromise on key forest issue, Daily Sentinel
• McInnis bill aimed at forest health, Durango Herald
• Law might expand scope of Community forest act, New Mexican
• Bush tweaking key environmental act, Miami Herald
• Trashing the Public, St. Petersburg Times editorial
• Let's cut through red tape and trees to stop fires, by U.S. Senator Larry Craig - Billings Gazette
• New wilderness area gets key Senate backing, Everett Herald
• House passes Udall bill encouraging remote sensing, Daily Camera

• House Democrats, Republicans strike deal on forest treatments, San Francisco Chronicle - Gehrke AP
• McInnis tries to save forest plan, Denver Post
• Resources Committee to Mark-up Bipartisan Wildfire Bill that Will Lower Fire Risks to Communities & Water Supplies, House Resources Committee
• Let's fight fire where it counts and stop pointing fingers, Sen. Bingaman - Billings Gazette/WOTR
• Where there's smoke, there's fire, Albuquerque Tribune - REP America
• American Voters’ Growing Concern over Wildfires Underscores Need for Congressional Action, House Resources Committee
• Packaging bills aimed at breaking Senate legislative logjam, House Resources Committee
• Budget gridlock in Congress blocks billions for local projects, Post Intelligencer
• Curbing Forest Fires, CS Monitor
• Two California Fires Destroy 100-plus Homes, Kill Wildlife, Ruin Watershed and Scorch More Than 40,000 Acres - But small, 3rd fire dramatically illustrates success of thinning projects, House Resources Committee
• October 10, 2002 Legislative Hearing on - H.R. 5102, To expedite the process by which the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may utilize aircraft to fight wildfires, and for other purposes.
  H.R. 5185, To remove a restriction on the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with any Federal agency to acquire goods and services directly related to improving or using the wildfire fighting capability of those agencies., House Resources Committee
• For Bush, dollars and cents drive land-use policies, CS Monitor
• Undermining Environmental Law, New York Times editorial

NORTHERN REGION (Region 1): Montana and Northern Idaho

• Stimson Lumber to close Libby plant, Daily Inter Lake
• Mill closure alarms those in industry, Daily Inter Lake
• Study examines social toll of fires, Helena Independent Record
• Moose fire salvage plan unveiled - Forest Service requests exemption from appeal, Missoulian AP
• Court critics sow fear over common sense water ruling, Trout Unlimited

• Bitterroot NF issues annual forest plan update, Ravalli Republic
• Flathead Forest readies salvage plan, Daily Inter Lake
• Flathead NF - Logging go-ahead is sought , Billings Gazette
• Chopper timber operation is ‘fast, furious’, Daily Inter Lake
• Swaps under consideration, Spokesman-Review

• Salvage logging gears up for winter run, Ravalli Republic
• Groups undercut timber sale - Environmentalists to file suit to stop Iron Honey, Coeur d'Alene Press
• Groups to sue feds over forest - Environmentalists decry Forest Service plan to allow timber sale in Iron Honey region, Spokesman-Review
• Tip Mont: Hotline now taking violations of Forest Service rules, Ravalli Republic
• Wildland firefighters burn calories like climbers, soldiers, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
• State offers leases on Rocky Mountain Front near Lewis & Clark NF, Missoulian
• New Bitterroot fire grows to 40 acres, Missoulian
• Dry conditions persist, fire officials warn, Missoulian
• Prescribed burn sends plume over the Swans, Daily Inter Lake
• Land Board approves 'land banking' proposal, Billings Gazette AP
• Darby woman to join timber group’s Washington trip, Ravalli Republic
• Gallatin NF - California wilderness issue a glimpse of our future, Bozeman Daily Chronicle editorial
• Non-human interests must not drive forest policy, Bozeman Daily Chronicle letter
• Gallatin Forest officials trying again with Jardine-area timber sale, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

• Gallatin Forest again to try timber sale, Billings Gazette
• Forest debate sows seeds of progress, Missoulian editorial
• Stretch of road in the Elkhorns to be reclaimed, Helena IR
• Kootenai Creek fire believed to be human-caused, Missoulian

• Lolo NF officials look at thinning to reduce fire danger along lower Rock Creek, Missoulian
• Prescribed burn set to clear Lolo NF logging slash, Missoulian
• Support the president’s timber initiative, Helena NF supervisor Tom Clifford guest opinion - Montana Standard
• Boundary, USFS settle road dispute, Spokesman-Review
• On duty in the middle of nowhere - Colville, Flathead and Kootenai NFs, MSNBC
• Guarding America’s back door, MSNBC
• Trees put down roots in new home, Spokesman-Review
• Crews work to contain New World mine pollution, Missoulian

• Competing challenges filed to Lolo Forest logging plan, Missoulian
• Helicopter logging steep terrain of Helena NF burn area, Helena Independent Record
• Hiawatha bike trail a tunnel tour, Denver Post
• Thompson Falls sawmill to convert biomass into electricity, Daily Inter Lake

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