NATIONAL NEWS
100 Years of Whistleblowing:
Forest Magazine
What Bears Do in the Woods: Forests are a cash crop for the U.S. Forest Service, which operates under a system of financial rewards that encourages the agency to cut timber and fight fires even if doing so makes no ecological sense, Los Angeles Times
INTERMOUNTAIN REGION (Region 4):
Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and SW Wyoming
Conservationist in a Conservative Land - Environmentalist Rick Johnson and Republican Congressman Mike Simpson are crafting a new language for wilderness protection, but not everyone wants to speak it, High Country News
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
Park plan raises controlled fires - The fire-management plan also proposes grazing, and hunting of mouflon sheep to foster growth of koa trees, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
What Bears Do in the Woods: Forests are a cash crop for the U.S. Forest Service, which operates under a system of financial rewards that encourages the agency to cut timber and fight fires even if doing so makes no ecological sense, Los Angeles Times
PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Region 6):
Oregon and Washington
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Feds to fund forest - Federal financing will help create state forest on Virginia's Middle Peninsula, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
West Virginia, and Wisconsin
