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Forests Forever has campaigned for preserving the protections of the original roadless rule since 2003. It has spoken out against Bush's 2005 repeal of the Clinton ... for California and the West, and Forests Forever applauds his decision to protect the state’s roadless forests. The decision by the Resources Department to appeal the recently drafted forest management plans ...
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Roadless timber auction
Friday. The 350-acre Mike’s Gulch timber sale lies within the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area in Oregon’s Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Another planned project going into a ... from logging, roadbuilding, mining, oil drilling and other development. The Bush administration repealed the original roadless rule in May 2005, replacing it with a regulation that requires governors to petition the ...
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Heritage Forests Campaign: Our Roadless Areas - Economics
"The original roadless rule is of far greater benefit to federal taxpayers," they said. "Given ... incurred from the timber program, and the accountability problems of the Forest Service, changing the rule is ill-advised." Road Maintenance The National Forest System contains over 380,000 miles of ...
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John Muir & I
Arthur Carhart and Aldo Leopold, thousands of acres were set aside as roadless areas. Logging, grazing and mining might someday be allowed there, the rules said, but not now ... parts of the John Muir Trail. When Congress created Yosemite National Park in 1890, encircling the original reservation of The Valley, this area was included. It was removed in 1905 because Congress ...
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National Geographic Adventure: Photos of Secret Yellowstone
National Geographic Adventure: Photos of Secret Yellowstone Adventure Main | E-Mail the Editors | Adventure Customer Service | Subscribe May 2002 Photographer Tom Murphy PHOTO GALLERY >> Cascade Corner Roadless Thorofare Area Lamar Valley Hoodoos Waterfall Moonbow at Duanda Falls Bechler River Hot Spring Life on Assignment Yellowstone's Secret-Keeper What have you been missing in America's most ...
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Open Spaces Magazine - Symbols & Stealth: ARE 30 YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION UP FOR GRABS? By Daniel Jack Chasan
"We're trying to go back to those original promises," Undersecretary of Agriculture for Resources and the Environment Mark Rey, a former forest products lobbyist ... 's response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' December ruling in favor of the Clinton roadless rule: "If the 9th Circuit Court were playing baseball," Craig said, "this decision on the roadless ...
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Heritage Forests Campaign: Resources
(D- WA) & Sherwood Boehlert, (R-NY) introduce a bill (H.R. 4865) codifying the Roadless Rule with more than 175 original cosponsors. May 17: Bush Administration recommends no wilderness protection for ... 86 percent of anglers and 83 percent of hunter supported efforts to keep the remaining roadless areas in National Forests free of roads. January: National public survey released by republican pollster ...
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Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir - from his birth to the present day (1914-2002) - John Muir Exhibit
Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail 1940 Kings Canyon National Park is established, dropping the original title, "John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park", contained in the 1939 bill and incorporating much of ... President Bill Clinton said, with reference to a very mis-guided proposal to roll-back the Roadless Rule for our National Forests made by the Bush Administration, "One of the Americans who ...
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Pennsylvania's Environment At Risk: The Local Impacts of the Bush Administration's Environmental Policies - PennEnvironment
Approximately 146 million Americans - or half of ... Service also has announced plans to weaken the popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule by allowing governors to opt out of the rule altogether. Pennsylvania is home to 25,000 acres of ...
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Becoming an Iceberg, Martha Marks
Washington and getting press attention for their opposition to rollbacks in the Roadless Rule. The administration’s December 23 rule on the Tongass National Forest seems to have backfired. Now hunters and ... Their own pollsters have been telling them that for years. They know—to return to my original metaphor—that the iceberg is out there. Unfortunately, instead of responding to that reality by ...
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