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

• Sen. Craig ends bid to stall forest plan - New Mexico senator takes up slack with proposal calling for logging in areas of high fire danger
• GAO- U.S. failing to obtain full value on land deals
• Auditors urge feds to abandon land swaps
• Audit details improper practices by Forest Service, BLM
• Land-swap critics resist ban
• Net gain, Net loss
• Seattle Times Feature - Trading Away the West
• Coalition Seeks Public Participation in Public Lands Policy
• Campers Using High-Tech Gadgets in 'Roughing It'
• BLM mission shifts to preservation
• Forest Service Sued To Stop Logging in Southern Region

• Land Exchange Program Hurts Public, GAO Says
• BLM and the Forest Service- Land Exchanges Need to Reflect Appropriate Value and Serve the Public Interest [PDF]. GAO/RCED-00-73, [link fixed]
• Federal agencies come under fire for land-swapping - Purchases for wildlife and recreation often don't make fiscal sense, GAO report says
• Land swaps cost U.S. millions, auditors say
• Halt to Western land swaps sought
• Defying Congress, EPA issues water rules
• New Water Pollution Rules Get Rocky Launch
• Clinton regulates urban, farm runoff
• New EPA water pollution rule may be challenged in court
• An EPA up The Creek

• Rally urges stronger forest plan - Groups back logging ban for roadless areas
• House Democrats' Letter Presses for Tongass Roadless Status
• Idaho Sen. Craig Ends Forest Roadless Area Fight
• Roadblock sought on roadless forests
• End of the Roads - The national roadless battle's all over but the shouting, as both sides find common ground in Idaho forest
• Ingalsbee on Logging and Fire
• Ventures mix timber sales with projects to improve forest health
• Gray Wolves Rebound; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes to Reclassify, Delist Wolves in Much of United States
• USFWS: Gray Wolf Recovery
• Defenders of Wildlife Press Releases on Wolves in America
• FWS proposes reclassifying gray wolf populations. Comment period ends Nov. 13
• ESA Protections Sought For The Wild Wolverine
• Wolverine Information
• Petition calls for listing wolverines

• Forests under fire - Congress hears what's right, wrong on forest management
• EPA - Clinton-Gore Administration Moves Forward on Clean-Water Plan
• E.P.A. Institutes Water Regulations Before a Bill Blocking Them Becomes Law
• Dangerous Riders
• TWS - Our National Forests Roadless Areas Policy
• Economic Values of Protecting US Roadless Areas [PDF]
• Record Number of Public Comments Support Roadless Area Protections
• West's economy will never again rely on extractive industries
• Cato Institute's Call to End U.S. - Canada Softwood Lumber Quotas Adds to Growing Chorus Citing Harm to U.S. Consumers

• Recreation Fee Authority Act of 2000 - S.2817 - Introduced June 29, 2000
• Monitors look for progress in spotted owl's recovery
• Spotted Owl Population Declines Sharply
• Invasive species hurting natives
• Nuclear reservations- Fires raise fears about vulnerability of sites

• Environmental Journalist Faces Federal Prosecution for Reporting the News
• Freedom of speech shines in Arizona cave
• Roadless plan faces Craig roadblock
• Senate nears showdown on Clinton roadless plan
• Hunters, Anglers Must See Big PictureTo Avoid Big Roadblock
• BLM seeking public comments on OHV-related issues
• BLM National Off-Highway Vehicle Strategy
• Sides dig in over Mt. Hood NF timber sales - Eagle Creek protesters vow to return Monday morning in force; the U.S. Forest Service promises to stop them
• CNN overview of latest US Forest Service news
• Now Is Time to Speak Out on Forest Fee - Proposal is part of bill rider that would effectively keep the decision-making process out of the public eye
• TRW awarded DOI, USFS tech support contract

• West becoming a theme park for the rich
• Clinton pressures EPA for clean water rules - Effort needed to circumvent congressional rider before it becomes law
• Clinton tries to sidestep pollution aspect of bill
• EPA's TMDL water-cleanup plan blocked by Congress
• How wildfires get names like "I Do" and "Sewemup"
• National forests being misused, environmentalists say
• Forest Preservation Association 'American Forests' Celebrates 125 Years of Activism
• The Deep Policy Roots of United States Forest Fires
• Roger Kennedy Opinion: Fires illuminate our illusions in the Southwest
• DeBuys Opinion: Los Alamos fire offers a lesson in humility - We're all in this together

• Let's begin to manage our forests, Stewart Udall
• The Future of Recreation on Your National Forests and Grasslands, Dombeck Speech 6-27-00
• Protesters defy Forest Service, use muscle to claim road
• Rainbow Prayer Circle Stretches for Miles Across Meadow
• Longing for Rainbows' end: Counterculture gathering agitates Montanans
• Groups sue Forest Service for failing to protect lynx
• Roadless Areas - The Quiet Possibilities
• In Idaho, a Howl Against Roadless Forests
• Recreationists Clash Over US Forest Roadless Plan
• Westerners attack `roadless wilderness'
• U.S. Road-Building Moratorium Turns In Political Football
• A new solution for battling wildfires
• Fires a threat to growing communities near forests
• Conservation vs. commercialism in the fight over new monuments
• Yellowstone ordered to quit solicitations for Web cam - Corporate Sponsorship Banned

• Forest Service: Actions Needed for the Agency to Become More Accountable for Its Performance, 6-29-00 GAO/T-RCED-00-236 [PDF] "The agency is still years away from providing the Congress and the public with a clear understanding of what is being accomplished with taxpayer dollars." -- Jim Wells, General Accounting Office

• Forest Service unclear if basic goals are met, watch dogs say
• Forest officials may restrict 'dispersed' sites
• Public Lands, Private Profits- Logging in U.S. National Forests
• EPA will not include forestry provisions in the new TMDL regulations
• Spotted owl decision didn't take timber out of town - Sweet Home not felled by ruling
• False Forests - What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut?
• The king of stumps - Sierra Pacific Industries is the single-greatest threat to California's forests
• TWS Statement on Senate FY 2001 Interior Appropriations Bill

• Preserve forests for the future
• Leave legacy of roadless lands
• One for the Roadless - How we could save both forests and jobs
• Roadless Areas Initiative Leaves Many Sites Unprotected (scroll down the page)
• Managed forests are healthier - Roadless proposal environmentally irresponsible
• Fight rages over largest, wildest U.S. national forest - The Tongass
• Roadless debate should be over - Let's turn the page
• Stop The Land Grab
• Environmentalists, Off-Roaders 'Agree': They Don't Like New Forest Plan
• Off-road vehicle use studied - BLM solicits comments
• Restoring National Forest Ecosystems Will Provide Many Benefits
• Commercial Livestock Production on Federal Public Lands - Environmental Destruction at Taxpayer Expense

• USFS FY 2001 Tourism Proposals
• USFS Tourism Initiative Executive Summary
• Advertisers to appear on Yellowstone Web site
• Park Service offers ‘Sponsor’ banners on Web site
• Pitch Your Tent and Log On
• Lange Selected As National Partnerships Coordinator for NFS
• New All-American Roads, National Scenic Byways Designated in National Forests
• Volunteers Receive National Awards
• Forest Stewards Guild 2000 Annual Conference - Forestry in Transformation - Transitions in Forestry on Private and Public Lands
• Land-Use Protesters Dig In Against U.S. Policy
• Elko Daily Free Press - Jarbidge Road Extended Coverage

• Gray wolf may lose its strict protection
• Wolf education is key to social acceptance
• What in the world is the West?
• Public lands- Is bigger better?
• Enviro Groups Debunk Ski Industry Charter as "Greenwash"
• "Wilderness 2000" Conference - September 7-10; Denver, Colorado - This conference will focus on celebrating wilderness and creating opportunities to protect wildlands in America's changing landscape. Speakers include U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and Gloria Flora. For more information or to register, visit http://www.wilderness.org/wild2000
• Wildfire Safety Checklist

• "Recreation Summit" in Sun Valley - The selling of nature
• National Theme Parks & Rec Fee Demo
• 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?
• Draft - THE USFS RECREATION AGENDA - Version 8c, June 2000
• For wrong reason, hiking fees needed
• Message to recreation fee opponents- Stop whining

• 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"
• ADC Wildlife Services Taking a human toll
• Fire Officials Confront Cut In Personnel
• Firefighters now have radioactivity to worry about, too

• 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.

• Winds fan Greek wildfires
• Integrated pest management for mango
• Greenpeace stage timber protest in Spain, Portugal

• Malaysia - Need to conserve natural resources
• Malaysia - Rainforest loss our great loss too
• Bangladesh to Set up Mangrove Forest Gene Bank
• Bangladesh Launches Project to Protect Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
• Gir lions to be shifted to adjoining forest
• Environmental rules for U.S. trade
• Greenpeacers Intercept Wood Cargos in Portugal and Japan
• Greenpeace protests rare timber trade in Portugal
• Japan: Greenpeace calls on G8 ministers to control illegal logging
• Japanese logging firm fined for illegal timber trade in Amazon
• Zambia to Not Ban Timber Export
• Firms get nod for Sarawak forest plantations
• Percent of Swiss Timber Production FSC-Certified by Year-end
• World Bank Russia Forest Loan Halt Sought

• Defending B.C. Old Growth
• Cato Institute's Call to End U.S. - Canada Softwood Lumber Quotas Adds to Growing Chorus Citing Harm to U.S. Consumers
• Nailing the Homeowner - The Economic Impact of Trade Protection of the Softwood Lumber Industry [PDF]
• Report Calls for Proper Management of Cameroon's Forests
• Finnish Old-Growth Forest Logging Moratorium in Danger

• Activists target illegal Russian loggers
• Illegal logging threatens Russian forests, official says
• Peru Seeks To Stem Amazon Logging
• Fire rages on Greek island, villages evacuated
• Turkey Repeats Warning Against Forest Fires
• Heat kills 5, burns forests, crops in Bulgaria
• Solomon Islands forestry minister wants early resumption of logging
• Canadian underwater old-growth harvesting at Brazil's Tucurui resevoir
• Louisiana Pacific Unable to Escape Flawed Eco-History in Canada's North
• Low Supervisory Capacity Abetting Kenyan Forest Destruction
• India - 'Forest trespass' case against TMC MLA

• Subsistence Farming Depletes Malawi's Forests
• Nairobi - Logging Ban Explained
• Bangladesh takes up $77 mln forest project
• Major Logging Tax Racket Deprives PNG of Revenue
• Illegal Logging Biz Grows in Russia
• Greenpeace Activists Board Ship to protest illegal logging
• Forest Fires Rage on in Far Eastern Russia
• Forest fire rages near Roman coastal resort
• Wildfires Blaze in Italy Heat Wave 7-5-00

• Mexican activists pay price for opposing deforestation
• The Last of the Last - The Old-Growth Forests of Boreal Europe
• Stora Enso and Vapo Oy Energia Agree To Increase Large-Scale Use of Forest Chips in Finland
• Update on Siberian Forest Products
• U.S. timber firm paid Fijian rebel
• Amazon Rainforest Field Research Facility Opens
• Tijuca- Rio's urban forest
• El Nino Threatening US Forest Songbird Populations
• Arboreal Scandal in Israel- Not All of the Trees Planted There Stay Planted
• Logging of Okoumé threatens Gabonese rainforests
• Amazon Being Logged for Plywood, Protests Mount
• Navajos, Zunis regain forest land

• Indians enter logging arena - B.C. Central coast band unveils land-use plan to protect traditional territory in rainforest
• Forest firms warned of threat to markets - Deadline looms for eco-certification demanded by retailers, wood products conference told
• Group rallies around Elaho owl-spotting
• Longhorn beetle threatens to spread across Canada
• Greenpeace estimates illegal logging in Russia
• A Fifth of Russian Logging Illegal
• Forests in Sabah depleting fast due to logging
• New Zealand Port opens gate for massive timber exports
• Report to target logging roads
• More doubts on Indian Forest Ordinance
• Brazilian loggers turn tables on Greenpeace
• Balloons ignite fires in Rio's rainforest
• Balloons Ignite Fires in Rain Forest
• Harvesting Submerged Treasure
• Loggers, Machines and Fishermen Chase Submerged Fortunes in Amazon

• 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

• 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 July, 2000

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

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

  The latest news of Congressional activities -

• Rep. Miller Urges Halt To Swaps of U.S. Land - Audit finds private interests reap big profits
• Senator Craig Drops Attempt to Delay Roadless Forest Plan
• House Democrats' Letter Presses for Tongass Roadless Status
• Editorial on Preserving our lands
• USFS Meyer testimony Concerning Boundary Waters, NFS July 4, 1999 Blowdown 7/7/00
• House passes bill increasing funds for killing predators

• Buying the Baca- House approves $101 million purchase of ranch in Jemez Mountains
• House postpones final vote on Baca Ranch
• Dangerous Riders
• Key Senator Backs Relief Plan For BWCA
• Wyden, Walden press timber bill - It would guarantee funds to county
• Recreation Fee Authority Act of 2000 - S.2817 - Introduced June 29, 2000
• Current Status of FY2001 Appropriations Bills
• Testimony of Chief Dombeck on Forest Service Fiscal Year 2001 Budget
• Senate oversight hearing on Sierra Nevada Forests DEIS, and DSEIS for the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Plan

• Senate nears showdown on Clinton roadless plan
• House gears up for Monday vote on Baca Ranch purchase
• CARA Conservation funding bill to get committee audience
• Clinton chided on clean-water plan rush
• Sierra Club Hails President Clinton for Standing up to Backdoor Attacks Against EPA Clean Water Protections
• EPA's TMDL water-cleanup plan blocked by Congress
• At Senate hearing, praise for reaction to BWCA storm [Sat. July 8 News)
• Senate Oversight Hearing on 1999 Blow-down in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
• Now Is Time to Speak Out on Forest Fee - Proposal is part of bill rider that would effectively keep the decision-making process out of the public eye

• TWS Statement on Senate FY 2001 Interior Appropriations Bill
• Anti-environmental riders dominate Senate appropriations bills
• Last Minute Games by House Republicans Could Ensure Presidential Veto of Interior Appropriations Bill
• Congress Weighs Federal Land Management Funding
• Cannon Gives Up on San Rafael Swell Bill
• Baca Bill May Come Out of Limbo
• USFS Bosworth Testimony Concerning Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mgmt Project 6/29/00

• Committee on Resources: Oversight Hearing on Forest Service Performance Measures and Accountability 6-29-00
• Timber payments bill on 'must-see' list
• Administration's Forest Management Decision Process Precludes Fair Opportunity For Public Comment
• Agenda - Oversight Hearing on the Inter-Relationship of the Forest Service's Rulemakings and Regional Plans
• USFS Phillips Testimony Concerning Interrelationships of Rulemaking & Forest Plans
• 6-22-00 Statement; Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, on The Interrelationship of the Forest Service's Rulemakings and Regional Plans
• 6-22-00 Statement; Fred Ebel, Society of American Foresters on the Coordination of Forest Service Rules, Regulations, and Initiatives
• Potential Effects Of Conflicting Forest Management Initiatives To Be Focus Of Congressional Hearing 6-22-00
• Two Endangered Species Reform Bills Approved By House Resources Committee- Private Property Rights & Better Science Mandated In New Legislation
• Utah congressman Hansen avoids public on West Desert land trade
• N.M. lawmakers seek Baca Ranch vote 6-25-00
• Baca bill a lesson for freshman Udall

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

NORTHERN REGION (Region 1): Idaho and Montana  

• Couple guilty of making illegal mushroom picks
• Timber has big economic role in N. Idaho
• Here's the lowdown on roadless plan for Idaho
• Tanker plane assigned to Billings to fight fires
• Rainbow gathering meadow previously trashed by cows, ORV's, timber cuts
• Rainbows, Come Back - Let's invite the Rainbow people back next year
• Craig aims to delay forest plan - Good photo of Larry

• Lewis & Clark National Forest land swap scrapped over enclave issue
• Montana county bills Rainbows for extra services
• Coeur d'Alene River Ranger district Fernan saddle area to open for firewood cutting 7-7-00
• Plum Creek is here to stay
• Protesters rock roadless area hearings
• Forests could stay roadless and still satisfy all parties
• Man devoted to helping grizzly bears
• Coeur d'Alene River Ranger district plans to use herbicide
• Withdrawal from mining proposed for federal land on Rocky Mntn Front - Forest Service asks for puclic input on 20-year withdrawal proposal
• 25,000 Rainbows gather near Dillon Montana
• 2 Rainbows cited for lack of permit

• Rainbow Prayer Circle Stretches for Miles Across Meadow
• Rainbow Family needs to rethink meeting places
• Living 'outside the dominant paradigm' - Rainbows find healing, acceptance
• Longing for Rainbows' end- Counterculture gathering agitates Montanans
• For some Rainbows, it's a real kick in the 'A-Camp'
• Testing waters - USFS, Montana want public's thoughts on deal to protect Alberton Gorge
• Kootenai NF Boulder Road Watershed Improvement as advertised in CBD
• In Idaho, a Howl Against Roadless Forests

• Profiles in diversity - Who's coming to Montana for this year's gathering?
• For many Rainbows, gathering is more of a pleasant family reunion
• All in the family - 10,000 members of Rainbow Family now gathered in woods outside tiny Jackson
• Rainbow cuisine - Musical Veggie provides finest dining at gathering
• Rainbow gathering displacing calving elk
• Enough is enough, environmentalists tell Rainbows - Area will need years to recover, groups say
• Missoulian Editorial - Nay on Rainbow land abuse
• USFS fears potential for disaster at Montana campsite
• Beaverhead County OKs tax for Rainbow costs
• Rainbows strain Missoula Food Bank resources
• Rainbows' treatment angers some - Locals complain of double standard
• Heads vs. Feds - Missoula's Barry Adams has plenty to say about relations between the Rainbows and the federal government
• Did you hear the one about the burros and the tepee? County Commissioner meets Rainbow Family
• Pay a visit to Rainbow gathering

• Roadless plan comes under fire in Coeur d'Alene
• Roadless plan draws more debate in Kalispell, Dillon
• Emotions run high at Helena roadless hearing
• No consensus at Billings hearing on roadless proposal
• Roadless or Free- Western Crowd Divided
• Roadless rage - More than 600 attend Missoula hearing on proposal to ban new roads in national forests
• 2,000 attend Missoula rally against proposed road ban - Convoys come from every part of Montana
• Roadless hearing set for June 27 in Billings
• Big Sky area overdue for big blaze
• Forest ad a product of timber industry - Newspapers to run corrections naming source of attack on roadless plan
• Gallatin Forest ranger Debbie Johnson charged with DUI

• Panhandle NF - Not Another Dam!
• Grizzly Proposition Aims To Return Bears to Idaho
• ORVs endanger grizzly recovery, groups warn
• The Great Griz Hunt - Citizens take it upon themselves to find griz in the wilderness
• Note to US grizzlies: Avoid Canada
• For Flathead woman, logging is a family affair
• In this magical place, love and loss are a way of life
• Guide to forest fires is not light reading for many homeowners
• Flames of creation - Park's biodiversity has benefited under revised policy, says chief ranger
• Montana Forest officials urge fire caution
• Montana Fire season flares up 6-30-00
• Northern region Recreation report 7-1-00

• Backers say roadless areas boost fishing and economy
• Roadless Initiative supporters say benefits being ignored by industry
• Forester Bosworth defends roadless initiative
• Roadless plan doesn't mean closed roads
• Voice your support for roadless forest initiative
• Roadless forest is good for Montana economy
• 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
• 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?

• 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

July 1-15 2000
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