A new report by Friends of the Clearwater documents that 18,000 Idaho roadless acres and 22,000 roadless acres in Montana were logged while presumably protected under the Roadless Rule. While […]
Obama Administration will defend the Clinton roadless rule
Administration will defend the Clinton version in the 10th Circuit Court- President sides with environmentalists to reinstate roadless rule. By Gary Harmon. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. Note that while this […]
Roadless Area in Tongass National Forest Opened to Logging by the Obama Administration
8.8 miles of new road are involved in what was once a roadless area. “Just building the road will cost four times as much revenue as the Forest Service is […]
Vilsack Takes Over Roadless Rule
Obama begins to put his imprint on the much litigated “roadless rule”- Bill Schneider at New West has followed the long battle of what was originally Bill Clinton’s roadless rule […]
Conservation groups sue over Idaho roadless lands
Interesting, a move up from collaborationism- Idaho has more roadless, undeveloped national forest land than any other state but Alaska. Compared to most other western states only a modest portion […]
Time to Codify the Roadless Rule
This may be a good idea- In New West, Bill Schneider wrote: “We Americans have high expectations for President-elect Obama and the bluer-than-ever Congress, and a good way for them […]
Phillips: Groups work together to protect 9 million acres
Did Idaho’s short term governor Jim Risch produce a compromise that finally protected most of Idaho’s 9-million acres of roadless area? Roger Phillips of the Idaho Statesman thinks so. Phillips: […]
U.S. Judge in Wyoming Rules Against Ban on Forest Roads
The back and forth over Clinton’s Roadless Rule continues. U.S. Judge in Wyoming Rules Against Ban on Forest Roads – NY Times