Wilderness/Roadless
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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. I like the…
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The 9th Circuit just upheld the Clinton Roadless Rule, and slapped down Bush’s amended rule which granted states and local interests undue influence to craft their own roadless rules, rules which ended up being weaker than the Clinton Rule. Idaho and Colorado were the only states to ride Bush’s timber-train. Clinton-era Rule Protecting Forests Upheld…
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More fallout on the costs to conservation Montana Senator Jon Tester’s new Logging Bill (couched in “W”ilderness designation) may have to Montana’s wildlife. Collateral damage: Experts wonder what Tester’s bill may kill Missoula Independent While much of the critique coming from conservationists focuses on the negative impact of the logging on other-than-wilderness public lands of…
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Ralph previously noted how the Western Lands Project monitors public land privatization, which let people know about a great book, Carving Up the Commons (pdf), freely available for download. The book gives great history and analysis of. Here’s a recent book review : Required reading: How Congress crafts public land bills – Missoula Independent Perhaps the most…
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Western Watersheds Project sues BLM to protect the Burnt Creek roadless area from livestock abuse- Ever since I returned to Idaho in 1971, one place I wanted to see was Burnt Creek in the high colorful foothills on the east side of the Lost River Range. It has been selected as a wilderness study area…
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Bill Schneider gives it a detailed analysis- I won’t go over the details because Schneider seems to do a good job, but my general impression is that there is no reason for Montana conservationists to support this, even though it is not immediately clear whether the “stewardship” elements are good, bad or neutral. What Tester’s…
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Privatization does not always happen directly. Western Lands Project looks at the sneaky ways- Wilderness Dedux. From the Goat Blog in High Country News. In recent years we have seen the emergence of “quid pro quo” Wilderness, where Wilderness is designated only if some developors are authorized to do something bad in exchange. This was…
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More wilderness, please. Oregon still lags behind other Northwest states. Register-Guard. Yes! but no cow Wilderness, please!