NATIONAL NEWS
Uncle Sam and the cabins - The national forest offers a nice getaway at a great price -- plus a thicket of restrictions,
Los Angeles Times
O&C land video sent to Congress - DVD produced to sell members of Congress on plan to sell off half of O&C lands as replacement for safety net,
The News-Review
CONGRESS & WASHINGTON
O&C land video sent to Congress - DVD produced to sell members of Congress on plan to sell off half of O&C lands as replacement for safety net,
The News-Review
NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho
A plug for the timber industry - Beaverhead Deer Lodge Partnership,
a coalition of wilderness and timber industry officials, collaborated on an alternative to the forest plan that would create wilderness and fund stewardship restoration projects,
The Clark Fork Chronicle
Forest looks for middle ground - Finally, the Flathead National Forest is implementing
a winter access policy that provides some clarity about where and when snowmobiles can travel, and predictably, there are folks who are unhappy about it,
Kalispell Daily InterLake editorial
New plan takes effect for snow machines - After the denial of six appeals, the Flathead National Forest is implementing a controversial plan that determines when and where snowmobiles can go on the forest,
Kalispell Daily Inter Lake
School embraces biomass heating - Burning wood pellets is "carbon neutral" because live trees absorb the CO2 released from the combustion of wood!,
Billings Gazette
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
Uncle Sam and the cabins
The national forest offers a nice getaway at a great price -- plus a thicket of restrictions,
Los Angeles Times
Protest to Protect Sacred Site Medicine Lake - The US Department of Justice (DOJ), acting on behalf of the BLM
and the Forest Service (FS), requested that the 9th Circuit Court review the issues involving the proposed plans to build geothermal power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands,
Indy Bay
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
West Virginia, and Wisconsin
