Trump Administration Seeks to Cut Environmental Reviews

Trump Administration Seeks to Cut Environmental Reviews

The Trump administration this week released a plan to roll back environmental reviews and opportunities for public input for a wide range of projects on national forests, including major logging operations. In a statement released on Wednesday, Secretary of...
Trump Administration to Close Job Corps Centers

Trump Administration to Close Job Corps Centers

More than 1,000 U.S. Forest Service employees could lose their jobs under a plan announced by the Trump administration today to shutter nine Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers and largely privatize those that remain open. The Forest Service has overseen the...
Agency to Allow Chainsaws in Wilderness Areas

Agency to Allow Chainsaws in Wilderness Areas

The Forest Service will allow chainsaws to be used in two wilderness areas in Colorado this summer to clear beetle-killed trees that have fallen over trails. Critics say the move would violate the Wilderness Act, which prohibits motorized equipment in wilderness areas...
Lawsuit Challenges Oregon Grazing Permits

Lawsuit Challenges Oregon Grazing Permits

Conservationists filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the renewal of grazing permits for two Oregon ranchers who had previously been imprisoned after being found guilty of setting fire to public lands. Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven, were convicted of arson in...