The United States Department of Agriculture is nearing a full repeal of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects millions of acres of virgin forestland nationwide. In Virginia, if the rule is repealed it would open up an estimated 400,000 acres of forest, largely across the Shenandoah Valley region, to development. The Trump Administration […]
Missoula, Mont. — As wildfire season presses on across the western United States, forest experts say that they have several tools available to counter them ahead opf time.
Opinion:Â The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
MISSOULA, Mont. - The Elder 1 fire, burning 7 miles southwest of Frenchtown in the Lolo National Forest, grew from 318 acres to 510 acres overnight, according to the U.S. Forest Service.Â
As smoke from wildfires in Canada billowed across the central and eastern parts of the United States, President Trump once again demonstrated his utter ignorance of wildfires.
"We see us as a stellar national attraction right off Interstate 90 between Glacier and Yellowstone," said Andy Mason, board president of the museum.
One of the frustrations I face as an advocate for forest protection is the continuous stream of wildfire and forest ecology misinformation from government agencies such as the Forest Service and state forestry departments.
MISSOULA, Mont. – The Montana Tri-Forest Federal Sustained-Yield Unit (SYU) management plan was signed into effect by U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz on June 17.Â
HELENA, Mont. - The Lincoln Ranger district is set to burn hand piles along Copper Creek near the Indian Meadows Admin site in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
