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 commercial logging is illegal, there is a loophole that permits logging for “forest health.”
However, where the Forest Service sees a “health” problem, ecologists such […]
Continue Reading →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 article emphasizes Colorado, this applies to all the states with national forest roadless areas that have not been designated as Wilderness areas.
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Continue Reading →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 going to get from the timber sale,” said Waldo of Earthjustice.
Ketchikan mill is awarded Orion North timber
Deal marks first timber sale […]
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 for the national forests. Today the Obama Administration made its first move.
Schneider tells the story in New West.
Vilsack Takes Over Roadless […]
Continue Reading →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 of this has been protected as designated Wilderness. The rest was allocated into various categories in an initiative pushed by Jim Risch during his brief […]
Continue Reading →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 to convince us we did the right thing is immediately codify the Roadless Rule.”
Rest of the story. Time to Codify the roadless rule. […]
Continue Reading →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: Groups work together to protect 9 million acres. Idaho Statesman. By Roger Phillips
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Some earlier stories in this forum […]
Continue Reading →The back and forth over Clinton’s Roadless Rule continues.
U.S. Judge in Wyoming Rules Against Ban on Forest Roads – NY Times
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker’s blog: Roadless rule resolution may wait for next administration. Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman.
Barkers writes about the latest chapter in the struggle over national forest roadless areas. This is a battle that has been going on since the early 1970s, but especially since President Bill Clinton gave an executive order to protect […]
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