The Trump administration has filed a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a regulation that restricts road construction, road reconstruction and timber harvesting on roughly 45 million acres of National Forest System land across the country, including approximately 6.4 million acres in Montana.
The Trump administration will move ahead with plans to end more than 25 years of sweeping protections for tens of millions of wild, federally managed acres across the U.S. Brooke Rollins, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Tuesday filed a rule to rescind “in its entirety” the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, […]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a complaint asking the court to halt implementation of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management’s Grazing Action Plan and associated MOU.
This week, the U.S. Forest Service announced the consolidation of all fire and aviation under a single deputy chief. The effort is part of a broader strategy to streamline federal wildfire management.
I've spent the last several weeks doing something I don't enjoy: reading through comment threads, forwarded emails, and private messages where members of this party have torn into one another.
Opinion: 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.
Cooler temperatures and minimal wind activity in the area Monday and Tuesday are expected to provide better firefighting conditions than in days’ past.
The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of President Trump’s second term. Democratic elected officials say those setbacks left Minnesota ill-equipped to face the fires that have burned more than 60,000 acres […]
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.
