National News: May 14, 2012

Written by Mark Garland
Sunday, 13 May 2012 21:03 News / National
Fee-collecting rangers are called 'intimidating' - Forest Service going after money despite ruling, group says, Arizona Daily Star Forest Service forgets who it serves, Boulder Daily Camera op-ed Selling what's priceless is nutty idea, HCN Writers on the Range at the Star-Tribune A closer look at Utah's land transfer act, Elko Daily Free Press Selling off the West, Salt Lake Tribune letter Oversight Field Hearing on "Logs in the Road: Eliminating Federal Red Tape and Excessive Litigation to Create Healthy Forests, Jobs and Abundant Water and Power Supplies" - Monday, May 14, House Committee on Natural Resources Teen discovers tree pulp has anti-ageing benefits, Health News U.S. Forest Service considers using explosives to bring down trees, Missoulian The nuances of obliteration, Star-Tribune Forest Service Stops Distributing Official Off Road Vehicle Trail Maintenance Publication That Contains Anti-ORV Propaganda, Roadracing World H.R. 2834: Bill would open wilderness areas to motorized vehicles, Arizona Daily Sun Small Land Transfers, Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial A Grand Study: Exotic Tamarisk (Salt-cedar), Durango Telegraph Federal Petition Filed to Protect Black-backed Woodpeckers in California, Oregon and South Dakota - Woodpeckers threatened by Forest Service fire-management practices, Center for Biological Diversity A bag, a beetle and a warming threat to trees, Washington Post Global warming threatens pine forests, forcing federal officials to shift strategy, Washington Post Pine beetle eats away at forestry industry - Program helps private landowners reduce insect's threat, Tallahassee Democrat Greens Protest Mass Killing of Wild Animals, Courthouse News Service Wildlife Services under Fire, Releases Annual Kill Numbers, WildEarth Guardians WildEarth Guardians Sues the Nation's Biggest Wildlife Killer: The Federal Government, WildEarth Guardians Wildlife Services needs a tight leash, Sacramento Bee editorial The killing agency: Wildlife Services' brutal methods leave a trail of animal death, Sacramento Bee Wildlife Services' deadly force opens Pandora's box of environmental problems, Sacramento Bee Suggestions in changing Wildlife Services range from new practices to outright bans, Sacramento Bee