Strong dollar socks it to forestry - Loonie's rise from 64 to 75 cents US in the past year could cost B.C.'s lumber sector almost $2 billion, Vancouver Sun
Off-road, off-limits - The growth of off-road vehicles, particularly `rock crawlers,' is a serious threat to the last wild places in the West, Albuquerque Tribune op-ed
USFS cancels NOI to prepare WUI EIS in the Southwest -
"The need to amend forest plans to modify standards and guidelines for Mexican spotted owl and northern goshawk within wildland-urban interface areas varied
throughout the forests and grasslands of the Southwestern Region. As such, a region wide amendment of all forest plans was not deemed necessary.", Federal Register
ONRC announces its ideas for tribal lands: Private lands - instead of Forest Service lands - to re-establish a reservation for the Klamath Indian Tribes, Herald and News
Decision-making focus of Stewardship program -
Jim Shackelford, U.S. Forest Service Assistant Region 5 Director, said there is a real problem with fuels management and habitat loss in the forest, Herald and News
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The BWCA Today: An Uneasy Truce -
The 1978 agreement that protected a huge tract of wilderness in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area has held firm, but the hard-won compromise might be fragile, Saint Paul Pioneer Press