National News: August 27, 2012


Debt standoff makes Forest agency fight all fires - Memo orders Forest Service to battle all blazes right as they start, though that’s not the best policy in places where fire shapes ecosystem, Idaho Statesman Firefighting Policy Time Out or "Reversal".. You Read the Memo and Decide, A New Century of Forest Planning In a Major Policy Reversal, the Forest Service Is Fighting Every Fire This Year -- But at What Cost?, OnEarth magazine How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires, NPR Why Forest-Killing Megafires Are The New Normal, NPR In Southwest, Worst-Case Fire Scenario Plays Out, NPR Is It Too Late To Defuse The Danger Of Megafires?, NPR Smoke in the air, Let'er burn, Elko Daily Free Press op-ed Our Changing Forests: An 88-Year Time Lapse : The Picture Show, NPR Tree Rings Tell Tales Of Ancient Fires And Climate, NPR National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule: Notice of meeting, Federal Register Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics seeks Executive Director, FSEEE Wildfire threatens only those sent to fight it, Lewiston Tribune letter Hotshot team cites safety issues in deadly ID fire, SF Chronicle AP Malboeuf cousins receive 48 hours jail for Ariz. megafire, no restitution - Apache Sitgreaves NF Wallow Fire became largest wildfire in Arizona history, Alamogordo Daily News Costs of big wildfire season hurting some states, Great Falls Tribune AP Thompson: U.S. Forest Service to Distribute $308M, Gant Daily US Forest Service asking states for school funding details, USFS Obama Administration announces new design, expanded content for Recreation.Gov as part of Initiative to boost tourism, strengthen economy , USFS Private company provides extra protection from fire's advance, Billings Gazette US Forest Service teams with nonprofit foundation in wildfire recovery efforts - National Forest Foundation establishes Wildfire Recovery Fund, USFS The Future Lies in Wood Pulp, The Atlantic Cities Rio Grande National Forest: Comments sought on Village at Wolf Creek Access, Mineral County Miner Wolf Creek - Forest Service should do nothing to aid development of the proposed 'village', Durango Herald editorial It takes a village - Proposed land swap reopens debate about Village at Wolf Creek, Durango Telegraph Billionaire Koch Builds Frontier Town All His Own Near Aspen, Seeks Forest Service Land Trade, Bloomberg News Natural regeneration building urban forests, altering species composition, e! Science News Maya may have intensified drought by clearing forests, Summit County Citizens Voice