Clearwater National Forest

  • Nez Perce-Clearwater Forest Plan Has No Accountability  

    George Wuerthner

    Note: I am posting this on behalf of the Friends of the Clearwater.   The Forest Service is currently accepting public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the forest plan revision on the Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests. The comment deadline is April 20. The National Forest Management Act (1976) mandates all…

  • Save the Great Burn Proposed Wilderness

    George Wuerthner

    The 275,000-acre Great Burn proposed wilderness lies west of Missoula on the Idaho-Montana divide. The 1910 Burn, which over ran 3 million acres of northern Idaho and western Montana, gives this wildland its name. The Burn left a legacy of snags and beautiful vistas from ridgelines cleared by the blaze. Alpine lakes, like a string…

  • Friends of the Clearwater Offers Citizen Alternative for Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests Revision

    Brett Haverstick

    Forest Service Proposed Action Deeply Flawed Moscow – Today, Friends of the Clearwater announced their outline of a Citizens Conservation Biology Alternative for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests Plan Revision. The Clearwater River drainage encompasses nearly 5-million acres of public wildlands and is part of the largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48. Tremendous biodiversity…

  • Open Letter to Senator Mary Landrieu Upper Lochsa Land Exchange

    Brett Haverstick

    Some of the checkerboard landscape(s) across the western US can be attributed to the Congressional land grants made to the railroad barons in the 1800’s. While some lands were eventually developed for railroads, others never were. Unfortunately, instead of these unused lands being returned to the public domain, some were sold off to timber barons,…

  • Supervisors of Lolo, Clearwater national forests oppose big rigs on Highway 12

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a significant move of new support against the use of the highway to move giant tar sands modules- Supervisors of Lolo, Clearwater national forests oppose big rigs on Highway 12. AP in the Missoulian. Highway 12 winds along between these two national forests. – – – – – – Other recent news about…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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