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  To provide a forum for a thoughtful discussion of forests and the forces that affect them
  New! - The Weekly News Top Ten - updated each Tuesday

• "Recreation Summit" in Sun Valley - The Selling of Nature
• Paying to Play - Recreation Fee Program Expanding on Federal Lands
• Uncle Sam wants you to pay to play on public land
• Who's to blame for those user fees?
• Fee impacts potentially huge for Forest Service
• Where's the equal protection in forest user-fee laws?
• Fire Status Report 6-30-00
• Fire Status Report 6-29-00

• Tree-mendous "silent witnesses to history"
• Public wants logging to end in roadless areas of national forests
• Economic impact being hotly debated - Forests as scenery bring business, says economist
• Logging ban no great loss to timber communities
• Teddy Roosevelt's Granddaughter Says "Keep Logging Out of Roadless Areas"
• Draft - THE USFS RECREATION AGENDA - Version 8c, June 2000
• BLM Highlights Conservation in New Management System
• ADC Wildlife Services Taking a human toll
• Fire Officials Confront Cut In Personnel
• Parks need more firefighters
• Wildfire Safety Checklist

• Forest Service looks beyond trees to recreation
• Pass sellers picketed -Several drop the pass - FS says vendors are "going to cause customers to violate the fee demo program and risk a citation"
• Roadless forest proposal riles activists, industry
• President's Ban Misses Critical Areas
• Initiative Is Bow To `Green' Extremists
• Sierra Club critical of ATV-dirtbike use on trails
• Wildfire policies assailed
• Shrinking crews, cash spark fear - USFS needs new firefighters
• Fewer willing to fight fires - Wages too low to lure people to the job
• Who's the real predator? ADC 'Wildlife Services' program wasteful
• Group Stumps For Ban On Logging - Members Of The Sierra Club Call Logging On National Forest Land "Corporatewelfare"
• "Environmental Justice" EPA rules released - Changes could help minority communities

• Forest user fee program under fire - Oregon congressman calls for rider to appropriations bill to restrict funding for enforcement of forest fee program
• House Forest Restoration amendment to restore forest habitat
• Environmentalists denounce ski industry 'snow job'
• Ski resorts vow to be clean and green
• Ski industry takes a closer look at the environment
• Ski Resorts Carve Out Green Principles
• Rainbow Family selects summer gathering site
• Town says Rainbow Family not that bad
• 'Not an emergency' - Rainbow Family member says annual meeting doesn't warrant governor's declaration
• Chamber of horrors - The Environmentalists' Little Green Book
• Forests at a Crossroads
• Roadless Plan 'Protects' Forest From Us Users
• Forests Have Too Many Roads

• Voracious Goats Keep Woodlands Fire Safe
• Beyond the scorched-earth policy
• Forest firefighting should be private
• The Political Economy Of Wildfires - Excessive virtue fostering monstrous vice
• Letter - Clinton roadless plan falls short
• Letter - Protect The National Forests
• Letter - The forests can be enjoyed without having more roads
• Listing Sage Grouse Could Save West From Its Success
• U.S. F&WS and NMFS Announce Draft Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts When Making Listing Decisions
• Federal Register - FWS, NMFS release draft policy for evaluating conservation efforts when making listing decisions under the ESA
• Lumber man pushes small mill plan
• Critics need to see forest for the trees that can be utilized
• FS Attitude toward loggers attracts attention
• More Americans Are Getting News From Internet and Rejecting Television

• Road ban in forests backed by new economic study
• Economic benefits seen in roadless plan
• Protecting Roadless National Forests Would Mean Gain, Not Pain for Washington's Rural Economies - As Logging Harvests On Federal Lands Decrease, Economic Vitality Increases, According to Study by Respected Economist
• The Complete Report - Economic Impact of Preserving Washington's Roadless Areas
• 'Rainbow Gathering' Press Release About the PA Sentences For Not Having a Group Use Permit
• US Forest Service Final Action Report - 1999 National Rainbow Family Gathering - Allegheny National Forest Marienville Ranger District
• Boise Cascade accused of roads plot- Conservationists say Firm tried to halt roadless plan
• Boise Cascade trying to slow system, group says
• Sheep may help prevent forest fires
• Logging makes forest-fire problem worse -- not better

• EPA exempts forestry from rule to crack down on polluted runoff
• EPA withdraws new water-quality rule for timber harvesters
• Roadless, vehicle-less not same thing on forest
• Flora- It's her West, too
• Wild ride- Feisty forester Flora blazes her way across the New West
• Veteran Ranger Joel Frandsen Shares Longtime Love of the Land
• Mike Dombeck - The Changing Role of Timber Harvest on Our National Forests
• Fire is fighting back, and winning

• The real reason for public-land user fees
• Foes of recreation fees raise national ruckus - 6-10-00
• Pay to play on public lands?
• Demonstrators protest fees for access to federal lands
• Voluntary Fees for Recreation Proposed
• Critics Chafe over Public Lands Fees
• Access fee brings protest
• Activists to stump Saturday for repeal of forest-use fee
• 25 protests set over U.S. Forest Service hiking fees
• Protesters to target forest recreation fees

• Park user fees freeze out lower-income Americans
• Keep public lands open to all to keep them healthy
• Controversial fees keep money local, but critics say they're expensive and misspent
• Montanans less aware of fees than recreationists elsewhere
• Poor, middle-income residents hit hardest by fees
• Protesters organize 'Day of Action' against fees
• Critics say fees shut public out of forests
• Conservation Group Releases 'Most Threatened Lands' Report

• Change on the Plains - Ranchers on the National Grasslands see their power ebb as a new era rushes in
• N. Dakota: Invisible roads block wilderness
• Convoy will convey 'outrage' at roadless plan - Pro-timber forces will arrive en masse in trucks, cars - Montana Wood Products Association organizing convoy to attend hearing on roadless proposal
• Great Motorized Trail
• Clinton announces rules expanding Family Leave Act
• Bush presidency bodes ill for West's public lands
• Chill out- Warmer world won't be all bad - Trees may grow faster, but 'winter' may fade away

• Migration to woods fuels fears of fire - Fires a threat to growing communities near forests
• U.S. Forests Getting Burned By Industry
• No-Cut Policy Is Bad Forest Management - Let There Be Logging
• Logging best management tool
• Forest Service Plan Does Not Live Up to Clinton Directive
• Gore Expands on Pledge Clinton Made on Forests
• Managing our national forests Roadless areas- Balancing public interests, Clinton plan would wisely protect valuable natural resources
• Clinton Shines With Proposed Road Ban To Protect Forests
• Path grinders - Ads glorifying off-road thrill-seeking have environmentalists mad and fighting back

• Senator Craig calls for apology from forest chief - Comment said to be slap to disability group
• Forest products, timber companies roar back
• We must complete transition from cut-and-carry forestry
• From FSEEE - Great ICBEMP Alert
• Saving trees works locally, not nationally - report
• Fire Danger Rises in Hot West
• Latest Wildland Fire Update

• Love for forests can lead to irrationality
• Roadless forest is comforting notion, but 43 million acres?
• Telling Numbers - Public wants more roadless protection than offered by FS
• Roadless Initiatiave a Wilderness Debacle
• Save Roadless Forests
• Fiery Land Management
• Forests to be trimmed to cut risk of fires?
• The roadless tour begins
• Wilderness wanted - BLM roadless areas should be protected suit says
• Increased Consolidation in the Newspaper Industry
• How we get our news
• Polls Says Internet News Gaining Ground

• Colorado's Wildlife Chief Leaving Controversy Behind - John Mumma, on cusp of retirement, can still ruffle some feathers
• Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - From bombs to blooms
• Stately Cottonwood trees face danger from nearly every front
• Nader says limit logging, breach dams
• Supreme Court upholds Babbitt's grazing reforms
• Park Service Set 'Prescribed Fires' - NPS burned 217 sq. miles intentionally in 1999
• Western wildfires growing menace
• N.M. fire spurs push for logging
• America's burning debate
• The West's hottest question: How to burn what's bound to burn - In the wake of the Cerro Grande fire, everyone ponders prescribed burning

• New national monuments based on science, not scenery
• No need for monumental land battles - Western governors see positive side to federal efforts at preservation
• Protecting our heritage
• Governors Want Next President To Reorganize Resource Agencies
• Conference attendees stress shared vision for West
• Governors take aim at West's land wars
• Governors seek say on Western issues
• The West - its myths and its reality
• Babbitt views job as mission - The Western native is constantly on the road dealing with land-use issues
• Counterculture nongroup reportedly coming to Montana for annual nonmeeting July 4 - Rainbows tussle with Forest Service

• 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.

• Timber Company Puts off Roadbuilding to Canada's Oldest Trees
• Lumber Duty Better Than Softwood Agreement
• China Government warns against forest land abuse in projects
• Forest fires rage in Cyprus for fourth day
• Aus. Govt says Greenies' motivations are questionable
• No logger compo - Forest and Bird
• Gabon's Okoum Exports Threaten Tropical Forests
• Spokane firm to make plastic wood in China
• India - Concern over rights of forest dwellers
• Timber certification plan aims to protect world's forests

• Lacandon Forest - Mexico's Mayan paradise on brink of extinction
• Interfor boss faces new major challenge - Financial storm weathered, now it's an environmental hurricane
• Govt plans fast end to Coast deal
• Maori Catlins logging fears expressed
• Survey on China's Forest Resources
• Mount Kenya Forest Under Siege From Pastoralists

• Timber certification plan aims to protect world's forests
• Corruption in tropical forestry covered up - WWF won't release report
• Forest corruption report covered up- At risk: Who faces the axe
• Kyoto provision- Spare the forests, boost the economy
• What's a Forest Worth?
• U.N. Negotiators to Discuss Provision that Conserves Forests, Boosts Economy
• Science Article Details Plan To Protect Forests & Slow Climate Change
• Tropical Tree Distribution Could Have Implications For Forest Management, Conservation
• World's Fragmented Forests Losing Ground

• Cambodia to prosecute Malaysian logging firm
• Illegal loggers threatening protected Sarawak tree species
• Indonesia says seeking way to ban export of logs
• Protection of forests: India Govt. to go ahead with legislation
• Logging Industry Hurts Gabon’s Fragile Forest Cover
• PC Opposes Herders Move To Mt Kenya Forests
• Malawi Loosing 50,000 Hectares Of Forests Annually
• Zambia Forestry Officials Arrest 17 Squatters
• Logged area to become quarry
• N.Z. Coast logging
• N.Z. Greenies hint at tree-sit protests
• Media paints grim picture
• Rainforests 'environmentally irrelevant'
• Deforestation may be starving songbirds

• Their cause is saving remaining centuries-old trees in B.C.
• The Elaho Index- a Little Tree Talk
• Interfor ruling spurs protesters - B.C. Supreme Court judge lifts an injunction against anti-logging activists, saying the lumber forest firm lied and took vigilante action
• Judge admonishes logging firm for raid on protesters' camp
• B.C. court ends logging injunction
• B.C. Court: Loggers Must Tolerate Public in Work Area
• Peace in the woods calls for consultation
• Forest industry, environmentalists both lack vision
• Squamish Nation and Interfor Issue Joint Statement
• Talks over Canada's rain forests suffer setback
• Clear-cut case

• B.C. plan protects Alaskan rivers - Proposal would add to parks, ban logging
• Softwood Lumber deal backfired, report shows
• Watchdog outraged at Kemess damages - map, photos
• B.C. rapped over Kemess forestry infractions
• Eco groups enlist 16 firms in fight - Companies agree to eliminate products made of wood from old-growth forests
• Officials fear beetle infestation spreading
• Beetle Threatens Trees in Halifax's Largest Park
• Eco-groups restart campaign against forest producers
• Fisheries watchdog urges deferral of new logging to protect salmon
• Saltspring Island protest against logging heats up

• Legislation in the 106th Congress Affecting the US Forest Service

• Online GAO reports about the Forest Service (1994-99)

• The House Committee on Resources has tentatively scheduled the following business for the month of June, 2000

• The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has tentatively scheduled the following business for the month of June, 2000

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

  The latest news of Congressional activities -

• N.M. lawmakers seek Baca Ranch vote 6-25-00
• Baca bill a lesson for freshman Udall

• Legislation To Establish National Policy Governing Back Country Landing Strips Approved By House Resources Committee
• Conservation act faces tough road through Senate
• Conservation Groups Support Bills To Provide U.S. Assistance For International Species Conservation
• U.S. Assistance For International Species Conservation To Be Subject Of Congressional Hearing
• Baca Ranch bill stuck in committee Link Fixed
• House defeats anti-monument measure

• Forest user fee program under fire - Oregon congressman calls for rider to appropriations bill to restrict funding for enforcement of forest fee program
• House Forest Restoration amendment to restore forest habitat
• House Protects Monument Funds 6-14-00
• Clinton Denounces Wave of Anti-Environment Riders
• Leavitt Defends School-Trust Land Swap Before Congress
• Forest Service Craven testimony Concerning HR359, HR468, HR1680, S1972, S2111 - 6/8/00
• Can 'property rightsniks' stop popular CARA bill?
• DeFazio says Timber payments bill vital
• Voluntary Fees for Recreation Proposed

• Conflicting opinions on Los Alamos fire heard on Capitol Hill
• Park Service & Forest Service Criticized For New Mexico Fire Disaster;
  Putting 40 Million Acres At High Risk Of Catastrophic Fires
• Governor, Local Officials Testify About Federal Fire Management Policy;
  148 Million Acres In United States Considered To Be At High Risk
• Joint Oversight Hearing on Fire Management on Federal Lands June 7, 2000 Agenda & Speakers
• Chenoweth-Hage Statement on "Forest Fire Management on Federal Lands"
• Hansen Statement on "Forest Fire Management on Federal Lands"
• Gov. Gary Johnson Statement on "Forest Fire Management on Federal Lands"
• LANL Statement on "Forest Fire Management on Federal Lands"
• NPS Robert Stanton Statement on "Forest Fire Management on Federal Lands"

• List of Ongoing Forest Service Rulemakings from the Federal Register [PDF]
• A money fight that may affect airports and firefighters
• Heritage River Program Coming Under Republican Attack
• Habitat plan stirs fresh feud Chenoweth-Hage to hold meeting 6-5-00 over habitat conservation appropriation
• Habitat conservation policies get a makeover
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Unveils New Five-Point Policy on Habitat Conservation Plans
• FWS, NMFS publish final addendum to HCP Handbook - "This addendum, which is also known as the five-point policy guidance, is printed entirely within this notice."
• Forest Service Key testimony Concerning Kenai Heritage 5/18/00
• Forest Service Bosworth testimony Concerning Proposed Road Management Policy 5/16/00
• Forest Service Bartuska testimony Concerning Forest Stewardship Pilot Projects 5/4/00
• Forest Service Furnish testimony Concerning HR3657, HR3817, HR4226, S439, S1374 - 5/3/00
• 10,000 Commandments -- New Report Details REAL Cost of Governmen
• 2000 National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims

• Partial List of Legislation affecting the US Forest Service - Bill Summary & Status - Automatic Query

NORTHERN REGION (Region 1): Idaho and Montana  

• Roadless forest is an economic boost
• Economic impact being hotly debated - Forests as scenery bring business, says economist
• The battle over roads - Strong opinion develops over Forest Service's building ban
• Fire Officials Confront Cut In Personnel
• Parks need more firefighters
• Montanan Land Board stalls action on North Fork timber sale
• Montana state Land Board OKs 3 timber sales
• Jackson preparing for influx of Rainbows - 25,000 expected to stay outside town of 5
• Heard the one about the naked Rainbow Family theft from Safeway?

• Sheriff, Forest Service working as Rainbow rumor-busters in Dillon
• Planning proposals refined - More input in federal land management could result from five pilot projects
• Idaho AG wants map of uninventoried roadless areas
• Ban on roads in national forests topic of public hearing
• Forest plan favored at Spokane hearing
• Landowner demands immediate answer on wilderness road request
• Nez Perce National Forest officials close bridge
• Grizzlies depend on cutthroat, scientists say
• Bear Advice May Not Ring True
• UM prof says road ban won't hurt state economy

• Saving forests aids economy, study says
• Lumber man pushes small mill plan
• Roadless Rhetoric II - Politicians join in on the pro-road double-talk
• Environmental groups sue state land board - Logging moratorium necessary
• 3 groups sue over logging of Montana old growth
• Back Into the Fire - After nearly 50 years, Missoula’s most famous movie returns
• Expert says more space needed for grizzlies
• Grizzlies more dependent on cutthroat trout than believed, study shows
• L-P CEO blames Federal Reserve for bad times
• Tree doctor says Selective logging keeps the forest healthy -; and makes a profit - in city's natural areas
• Northwest Montana rally-goers organizing
• Keeping the roadless plan on track
• B’root bombed with 'commie' propaganda
• Forest road openings, and the return of red-baiting
• Officials in the Crosshairs - Is anti-government rhetoric ruining Montana politics?
• Burning at Both Ends - Budget cuts have firefighters preparing for a mean season
• Opinion -Crying fire in a crowded forest?

• Rainbow Family selects summer gathering site
• Town says Rainbow Family not that bad
• 'Not an emergency' - Rainbow Family member says annual meeting doesn't warrant governor's declaration
• Montana declares Rainbow emergency in advance
• Rainbows express frustration on Web site - Unrest before the gathering
• June 6th 'Grapevine' Press Release for the 2000 Rainbow Gathering
• Early June 'Grapevine' Press Release for the 2000 Rainbow Gathering
• May 'Grapevine' Press Release for the 2000 Rainbow Gathering
• US Forest Service Final Action Report - 1999 National Rainbow Family Gathering - Allegheny National Forest Marienville Ranger District
• Forest official says gathering had impact on site

• Change on the Plains - Ranchers on the National Grasslands see their power ebb as a new era rushes in
• A dissident speaks up for the Badlands
• Elk find no home on the grasslands
• N. Dakota: Invisible roads block wilderness
• FS to prepare EIS on potential environmental effects of salvage harvesting up to 20,000 acres of dead and damaged trees in scattered areas located on the Bonners Ferry R.D., Idaho Panhandle National Forests
• Straw poll misconstrues federal roadless plan
• Straw poll is road leading nowhere
• Roadless poll on ballot

• FS Land swap has neighbors concerned
• St. Joe camps shut for maintenance
• Lewis and Clark NF area - Sludge spills into creek below former mine site
• Columnist misinformed about federal land exchage/sale policies
• Back off on timber sale appeals - by Bozeman Chronicle editorial board
• Linking wildlife habitat on the pass
• Stately Cottonwood trees face danger from nearly every front
• National forest map price goes up $2

• June 10, 2000 Northern Region Recreation report
• Custer NF - Rural firefighters balk at FS rules - Pack and equipment tests unfair, say firefighters - New rules complicate 'critical' rural firefighting pacts
• 'Red Skies' back on big screen - Proceeds will help buy plane that ferried firefighters to deaths at Mann Gulch
• Somewhere, oh, for the Rainbow - Gathering site not announced, but group members already making their presence felt - Government agencies brace for arrival of Rainbow clan
• Rainbow Family gathering in Big Hole area - Hundreds of followers already in area, officials say
• Rainbow Family reportedly heading to Missoula area - Forest Service unsure where gathering will be
• Amount of snowmobile traffic in Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness area appalling
• Purple loosestrife - Beauty or Beast?
• Yellowstone springing to life

• Convoy will convey 'outrage' at roadless plan - Pro-timber forces will arrive en masse in trucks, cars - Montana Wood Products Association organizing convoy to attend hearing on roadless proposal
• Critics say roadless poll is bogus - Election ballot misleads public on roadless initiative, they say
• Forest officials defend Clinton's road plan - Northern Idaho supervisors face crowd of skeptics
• Economist forecasts mill closures - Mills most dependent on federal timber supplies at greatest risk of closing
• Racicot says states must have voice in forest policies - Forests might have to be managed at cost to government, says governor
• Racicot blasts Clinton’s roadless proposal

• Grizzlies Could Return to Bitterroots Soon - Plan to reintroduce big bears by 2002
• Groups want protection for Idaho grizzlies - Cabinet-Yaak bears warranted for endangered species status
• If a Bear Is In the Woods and You Don't See It, Is It Still There?
• Park wants to short-circuit photographers - Yellowstone officials say telemetry equipment disrupts wildlife - Park plans ban on gear to find collared wildlife
• Montana Logging convention June 3-4
• Technology featured at annual Timberfest
• Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting underway 6-11-00
• Biologists converge on UM - 14th meeting of Society for Conservation Biology this weekend
• Montana Fire season could be bad, report says
• Pest attacks leaves of honey locust trees
• Cutting for Growth - Program chops down old aspen to revitalize trees, wildlife
• Idaho Panhandle NF Bonners Ferry R.D.notice of intent to prepare an EIS for Salvage Sales

• Idaho Panhandle National Forests Press Releases
• Lewis & Clark National Forest News
• Current News Releases from the Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest
• Current News Releases from the Helena National Forest
• Current News Releases from the Gallatin National Forest
• Dakota Prairie Grasslands
• Northern Region News Releases

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