Forest Planning News #1 (11/30/2005)
Online Forest Action Center unveiled. Forest planning around the country. State of Planning: East vs. West. Active plans: Big Horn National Forest ROD and appeal period (WY).
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Forest Planning News #2 (03/03/2006)
Opposition to Bush land sale plan mounts. Roadless protection: APA petition filed. Walden logging bill. Threats to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Look up status of forest plans.
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North Cascades May 2007 Newsletter (05/25/2007)
Spring is in the air! With the warmer weather and melting snows comes the yearly opening of Highway 20 and the beginning of fly fishing season. This month, we also look at fishing in the Wild and Scenic Skagit River and the introduction of the Roadless Area Conservtion Act of 2007.
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WildAlert News August 2006 (08/02/2006)
Protecting roadless forests. Protecting Montana forests (some of which are more roadless than others). Wilderness bills pass the House. Hold is placed on leasing the Wyoming Range in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Congressional leaders step to the plate in support of the National Landscape Conservation System by forming a caucus.
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WildAlert News December 2006 (12/06/2006)
Victory in court for National Forest roadless areas. Go Wild in California's Cache Creek Wilderness. Save open space and read about the places you helped protect in 2006.
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WildAlert News February 2007 (02/05/2007)
President releases FY 2008 Budget. Go Wild at Colorado's Little Snake Area. Update on roadless area protection. Quick updates on the Green Budget, clean energy, payments to counties and monster cutbacks to staffing at National Wildlife Refuges.
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WildAlert News January 2007 (01/12/2007)
Welcome to 2007 and the 110th Congress. Off-road vehicles and travel management planning top the agenda at Oregon's Steens Mountain. New leadership in Congress faces many of the same old issues (and some new ones).
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WILDALERT NEWS: December 2005 Update (12/05/2005)
Mountaintown Roadless Area, GA.
Take Action: Arctic Refuge & public lands; Roadless petition
Forest Service flooded with comments on Monongahela National Forest.
Western public lands for sale?
New Wilderness for Puerto Rico! Groups take legal action to protect Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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WILDALERT NEWS: January 2006 Update (01/06/2006)
Glastebury Mountain, VT. Arctic Refuge safe, for now. Governor wants full protection for roadless areas in Virginia.
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WILDALERT NEWS: March 2006 Update (03/02/2006)
Tongass clearcuts. Selling off the public estate. Roadless protection petition filed. Carrizo Plain National Monument victory.
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WILDALERT NEWS: May 2005 Update (05/05/2005)
Roadless Rule overturned, Arctic Refuge update, archaeological resources in National Monuments in Arizona, NLCS anniversary, your gifts doubled for limited time.
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WILDALERT: An Offering of Thanks (11/22/2005)
A special Thanksgiving message from Eleanor Huffines, Anchorage, Alaska.
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WILDALERT: Ask Your Representative To Protect Our National Forests Vote No On HR 4200 (05/11/2006)
Early next week, the House will vote on a bill, HR 4200, that could cause serious harm to the long-term health of our public forests. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) is the lead sponsor of this bill, which would exclude the public from decisions regarding the management of our public lands. The bill also ignores important scientific research, threatens the Endangered Species Act, could increase the risk of wildfire and leaves roadless areas, old growth forests, and other special areas unprotected.
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WILDALERT: Bush Budget Puts Our Public Lands on Blue-Light Special (02/15/2006)
As much as 800,000 acres of Americans' public land would be sold into private hands under one egregious provision of President Bush's proposed budget. Astonishingly, less than two months ago, bipartisan opposition in the Congress defeated a similar scheme. This absurd proposal deserves the same reaction from all of us. Please send that message to your Members of Congress!
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WILDALERT: Critical Areas of Kenai Peninsula Would be Open to Snowmobiles Under Proposal (06/06/2006)
At 5.5 million acres, the Chugach National Forest in southcentral Alaska is the nation's second largest. One of its best-known wonders is the Kenai Peninsula, rich in natural beauty, fish and wildlife. The U.S. Forest is developing a winter use plan for the area that could surrender 85 percent of it to snowmobile use. We need your help to prevent that.
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WILDALERT: Green Mountain Forest Plan Is Long on ATV Accommodation, Pitifully Short on Wilderness (04/15/2005)
The future of Vermont's Green Mountain National Forestis at stake as the Forest Service develops a new management plan for the forest. The agency's draft plan recommends far too little wilderness protection and proposes opening up much of the forest to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Please tell the Forest Service to recommend more wilderness and keep the forest free of ATVs.
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WILDALERT: Help Protect Arizona's Roadless Areas (Arizona residents only) (07/31/2006)
We need your help to protect Arizona Roadless Areas! The Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking input from the public on how national forest roadless areas in Arizona should be managed. The input will assist Governor Janet Napolitano as she develops a petition to the US Forest Service for protecting roadless areas in the state.
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WILDALERT: House Bill Proposes Savage Cuts in Land Protection Funding (05/16/2005)
The House of Representatives this week will take up the Interior Appropriations bill that funds our land management agencies. For the first time ever, the Congress proposes to eliminate funding for all new land acquisitions in Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and to slash funding for the Forest Legacy program. But in a stark display of twisted priorities, the bill would continue massive subsidies for road-building and logging on our largest national forest, the Tongass in Alaska.
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WILDALERT: Montana's Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Asking For Comments on Management Plan (10/27/2005)
A plan now in development will set the course for this national forest for the next 10 to 20 years and determine whether it will retain its wild character and wildlife values
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WILDALERT: New Forest Service Rules Weaken Safeguards For Our National Forests, Bar Public From Process (05/26/2005)
Besides dumping the Roadless Rule that protected nearly 60 million acres of pristine forest, the U.S. Forest Service has moved to impose new regulations and directives that sharply weaken the National Forest planning process.
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WILDALERT: Oregon Roadless Area Timber Sale Announced, Despite Public Opposition (06/07/2006)
The Forest Service announced last week that it will begin selling timber in Oregon's roadless areas -- despite strong public support for the protection of these areas. The Mike's Gulch Timber Sale would be the first logging project in a national forest roadless area since the Roadless Area Conservation Rule was adopted in January 2001.
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WILDALERT: Please Attend Allegheny Nat'l Forest Planning Meetings (Pennsylvania only) (05/15/2006)
The Forest Service will be holding public meetings, starting May 22nd, to discuss its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Allegheny National Forest Plan revision, which includes recommendations for new wilderness on the forest; the DEIS will be released May 17th.
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WILDALERT: Protect Pennsylvania's Wilderness (07/11/2006)
The future of Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania's only national forest, is very much a stake today. The Forest Service is proposing a long-term management plan that recommends too little wilderness and doesn't do enough to protect the plants, animals and recreation opportunities most people care about. You can change that!
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WILDALERT: Tell Forest Service our National Forests are Not for Sale (03/22/2006)
The Forest Service is seeking public comment on the proposed sale of National Forest lands, which could be the only official public comment gathered. Please send a resounding "Not for Sale!" to the agency.
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WILDALERT: Tell Forest Service to Protect Monongahela's Wilderness (11/03/2005)
The future of the much-loved Monongahela National Forest is very much at stake today. The Forest Service is proposing a long-term management plan that recommends too much clearcutting and too little wilderness protection.
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WILDALERT: Thank Sen. Boxer and Rep. Solis for Reintroducing the California Wild Heritage Act (California only) (04/05/2006)
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Hilda Solis (D-32/CA) recently reintroduced the California Wild Heritage Act (S. 2432 / HR 5006), which would designate 2.5 million acres of wilderness and 480 miles of wild and scenic rivers throughout California.
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WILDALERT: Tongass National Forest, America's largest, needs your help (05/08/2006)
Within the next week, Congress will consider an amendment to prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to build new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. If their amendment passes, it would eliminate yet another government subsidy and protect the Tongass from further logging.
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WILDALERT: Two New Ways to Protect Our Forests (12/02/2005)
The Wilderness Society announces online Forest Action Center to ensure our National Forests will be passed on to future generations in good condition.
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Wilderness Report #100 (09/05/2003)
Wilderness Report celebrates 100th issue and 39th anniversary of Wilderness Act - Wild Sky Wilderness resoluiton - Comments oppose roadless rule exemption in Alaska
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Wilderness Report #101 (09/19/2003)
Apostle Islands - Bush Administration blocking Park wilderness - Wild Sky Wilderness poll
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Wilderness Report #102 (10/03/2003)
Ojito Wilderness Act introduced - Bush Administration formalizes anti-Wilderness policy - Oregon Wilderness Conference - Wild Utah slideshow
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Wilderness Report #103 (10/17/2003)
California Wilderness & WSR bills introduced in House - Utah Test & Training Range Protection Act hearing - Monongahela Wilderness subject of meeting
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Wilderness Report #104 (10/31/2003)
Mardy Murie dies - Allegheny National Forest citizens wilderness proposal - Vermont Wilderness
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Wilderness Report #105 (11/21/2003)
Roadless policy - Idaho Wilderness - Western Arctic oil & gas leasing (NPR-A)
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Wilderness Report #108 (1/9/04) (01/09/2004)
Tumacacori Highlands Proposed Wilderness (AZ) - Otero Mesa opened to oil & gas drilling - Tongass exempted from Roadless Rule - Utah slideshow
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Wilderness Report #109 (1/23/04) (01/23/2004)
Otero Mesa public forum - Final Medicine Bow Forest Plan released - NPR-A opened to oil and gas - State of the Wild report - High Country news highlights Wilderness threats
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Wilderness Report #113 (3/26/04) (03/26/2004)
Oregon Wilderness - Bethine Church column - Owyhee Canyonlands - 2004 Northwest Wilderness Conference
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Wilderness Report #115 (4/23/04) (04/23/2004)
Puerto Rico Wilderness - Virginia Wilderness - Owyhee Initiative - Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument
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Wilderness Report #123 (8/20/04) (08/20/2004)
Summary of pending Wilderness legislation in the 108th Congress.
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Wilderness Report #124 (9/3/04) (09/03/2004)
40th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act Special!
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Wilderness Report #125 (9/17/04) (09/17/2004)
Puerto Rico Wilderness passes Senate committee - Mt. Hood Wilderness hearing - Nethercutt Wildereness bill - Nevada Wilderness testimony
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Wilderness Report #126 (10/1/04) (10/01/2004)
40th Annivesary Celbration - House Committee moves two Wilderness bills - Zahniser remarks - Senator statements on Wilderness 40th
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Wilderness Report #140 (5/6/05) (05/06/2005)
New poll shows support for Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness. Arizona Wilderness hero. Utah and Virginia Wilderness bills reintroduced in Congress. Wilderness recipes.
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Wilderness Report #141 (5/20/05) (05/20/2005)
Ojito, Caribbean Wilderness bills pass House committees. Boulder-White Clouds bill introduced. Lake County endorses Northern California Wilderness bill. Wilderness: The Big Picture.
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Wilderness Report #144 (7/15/05) (07/15/2005)
Gaylord Nelson dies. Northern California Wilderness hearing. Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness bill introduced. Custer County (ID) endorses Boulder-White Clouds bill. Your Wilderness horoscope.
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Wilderness Report #148 (9/9/05) (09/09/2005)
Bangs Canyon proposed Wilderness (CO) draws support at hearing. Western states file suit against Bush Roadless Rule.
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Wilderness Report #150 (10/7/05) (10/07/2005)
Poll shows support for Boulder-White Clouds wilderness. West Virginia Governor declares Wilderness Month.
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Wilderness Report #151 (10/21/2005)
Ojito Wilderness bill passes House; heads to President for signature. Boulder-White Clouds (ID) gets hearing. California gets new State Wild & Scenic River.
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Wilderness Report #152 (11/04/2005)
Ojito Wilderness bill signed into law. Boulder-White Clouds (ID) gets hearing in House. New Zahniser biography published.
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Wilderness Report #153 (11/18/2005)
Caribbean National Forest Wilderness bill clears Congress. Monongahela Forest Plan receives record number of comments. Wildlands in California, Nevada threatened by new legislation. Bighorn National Forest recommends new wilderness.
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Wilderness Report #161 (03/24/2006)
California Wild Heritage Act reintroduced in Congress. County shows support for Scotchmans Peak Wilderness (ID/MT). Mt. Hood Wilderness bill details announced. Final plan for Green Mountain National Forest released. Wilderness ads kick off in West Virginia newspapers.
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Wilderness Report #162 (04/07/2006)
New Hampshire Wilderness Act of 2006 introduced in Congress. Vermont Wilderness Bill would almost double designated Wilderness in state. Wilderness Bills in Oregon and Colorado have hearings on Capitol Hill.
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Wilderness Report #166 (06/02/2006)
Eastern Sierra Wilderness bill moves forward -- Senate committee holds hearing on bill. Scientists voice their support for Wilderness designations in White Pine County, NV. Wilderness ads kick off in Idaho.
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Wilderness Report #187 (04/06/2007)
1 - Final Allegheny National Forest Plan Falls Short on Wilderness - Largest Roadless Area Left Out; 2 - Tucson Citizen Editorializes in Support of Proposed Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness; 3 - Wilderness Classifieds
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Wilderness Report #189 (05/04/2007)
1) Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Bill Reintroduced; 2) Oregon Sportsman in DC to support Copper-Salmon Wilderness Proposal; 3) The Charleston Gazette’s Opinion Editorial Highlights Economic Value of Wilderness on WV’s Monongahela National Forest; 4) Job Listings in the Wilderness Classifieds
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Wilderness Report #199 (09/21/2007)
1) Wilderness Legislation Introduced for Oregon’s Copper-Salmon Area, Senate Hearing Held; 2) Colorado Wilderness Act of 2007 To Be Introduced in House; 3) Local Homebuilders Support New Wilderness in Doña Ana County, New Mexico; 4) The Wilderness Classifieds
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Wilderness Report #200 (10/05/2007)
1) Wilderness Report #200: A Look Back at Wilderness Since Our First Issue; 2) Southern California Wilderness Bill Introduced by Representative Mary Bono and Senator Barbara Boxer; 3) House Agriculture Committee Hearing Held on Virginia Ridge and Valley Act; 4) National Foundation Created to Protect and Expand National Conservation Landscape System
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Wilderness Report #95 (06/13/2003)
Bush Administration Flip Flops - Proposes Changes to Gut Roadless Area Convservation Rule; House Members Renew Effort to Undermine Antiquities Act - Block New National Monuments; Wilderness Brief: Mountain Biking in Wilderness Debated; Celebrating the Wild Sky - Wilderness Festival to Be Held In Index, WA
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Wilderness Report #98 (08/08/2003)
California Wilderness & Wild and Scenic River legislation reintroduced - Sen. Boxer's comments on California Wild Heritage Act of 2003 - Steens Mountain Wilderness - Tongass & Chugach National Forests exemption from Roadless Rule - SUWA campaign to expose Gov. Leavitt's anti-wilderness deals - Wild Utah slideshow heads to the Dakotas
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Administration's Record on Public Lands at Earth Day 2004  (04/21/2004)
Bush Administration policies are a significant and often radical departure from past approaches to stewardship. The move is away from balance and conservation for future generations and toward a short-term orientation that puts industrial development ahead of long-term conservation. Key examples of these changes are set out below.
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Analysis of Baucus/Wyden County Payments Funding Proposal: S 2485 (04/19/2006)
On March 30, 2006, Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced S. 2485, the “Secure Rural Schools and Communities Funding Act of 2006.” The bill would provide a dedicated funding source for continuation of the guaranteed county payments program established by Congress in 2000.
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Analysis of Biscuit Fire Recovery Project Final EIS (06/10/2004)
A brief analysis of the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, which the Forest Service announced on June 1, 2004. The Forest Service's new preferred alternative, while somewhat smaller than the draft plan, is still an extreme logging plan that would have devastating impacts on roadless areas and old-growth forest reserves. It would also set a dangerous precedent for wholesale violations of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and the Northwest Forest Plan.
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Analysis of Categorical Exclusions for Fuel Reduction Projects (12/20/2002)
A brief analysis of the Forest Service proposal to exempt "hazardous fuels reduction projects" from the documentation requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. This would allow thinning or other fuel reduction activities without preparation of an environmental imapact statement or environmental assessment. Prepared by Mike Anderson, The Wilderness Society.
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Analysis of Forest Service Appeals Process Amendments (12/12/2002)
Analysis of proposed regulatory amendments to the Forest Service appeals process. Initially announced as part of the Bush Administration's "Healthy Forests Initiative, the proposal would make it much more difficult for citizens to effectively exercise their rights under the Appeals Reform Act (ARA) of 1992 to administratively appeal Forest Service timber sales and other land management decisions. Prepared by Mike Anderson, The Wilderness Society.
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Analysis of Forest Service NFMA Interpretative Rule (Oct. 2004) (10/04/2004)
Analysis of the interpretative rule on national forest planning that the Forest Service issued on September 29, 2004. The rule formalizes the Forest Service’s view that, with one exception, it is currently not required to comply with regulations implementing the National Forest Management Act (NFMA).
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Analysis of new Appeals Reform Act regulations (06/04/2003)
New regulations make appeals of Forest Service decisions more difficult.
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Analysis of new Categorical Exclusion regulations (06/05/2003)
New regulations will allow very large logging operations with virtually no consideration of environmental impacts.
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Analysis of new Roadless Rule changes (06/11/2003)
Bush Administration announces changes that will completely eliminate the Roadless Rule's protection for roadless areas in the Alaska and severely weaken the Rule everywhere else in the National Forest System.
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Analysis of New Rule on Roadless Areas and State Petitions (05/05/2005)
Analysis of the Bush Administration's decision to replace the Roadless Area Conservation Rule with a State petition process. The Bush rule entirely eliminates the Protections provided by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Without the Roadless Rule's restrictions, management of roadless areas will revert to the management direction contained in local forest management plans. The Bush rule establishes an optional two-step State petition and rulemaking process for roadless area management. The state petition process is stacked against roadless area protection in several respects.
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Analysis of Proposed Regulations on Roadless Areas and State Petitions (07/13/2004)
Brief analysis of the Bush Administration's proposed regulations to replace the Roadless Area Conservation Rule with a State petition process, which USDA Secretary Veneman announced on July 12, 2004. The draft rule would entirely eliminate the protections provided by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Without the Roadless Rule's restrictions, management of roadless areas would revert to the management direction contained in local forest management plans. Thus, most roadless areas will become vulnerable to new road construction for logging, energy development, and other commodity uses.
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Analysis of the Administration Roll-Back of Forest Service Forest Planning Regulations (05/24/2001)
Summary and analysis of the Bush Administration's impending roll-back of the Forest Service's revised forest planning regulations, which were adopted in November 2000. Author: Mike Anderson, TWS.
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Analysis of Wyoming Court Decision Blocking Roadless Rule (07/15/2003)
Wyoming District Court Judge Brimmer blocks implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, but decision likely to be overturned because of misinterpretation of Wilderness Act and contradiction with recent ruling from appeals court.
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Bush Administration Record on America's National Forests (04/15/2004)
The Bush Administration is rewriting the laws and regulations that protect our National Forests. This chronology follows the Bush Administration's actions on forest issues and details the actual impact of each proposal.
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Bush Rhetoric vs His Record (08/08/2003)
Bush Rhetoric vs His Record
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Bush Wildfire Bill Fails to Protect Communities (08/08/2003)
Bush legislation concentrates funding on logging in backcountry, not fire prevention near communities.
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Bush's Forest Plan: Salvage Rider Resurrected (09/10/2002)
Bush's Forest Plan: Salvage Rider Resurrected. Facts on the 1995 Salvage Rider.
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Colorado County Economic Profiles (09/06/2000)
Analysis shows wildlands protection is good for Colorado's economy.
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Colorado Travel Management Planning Fact Sheet  (06/10/2008)
This fact sheet outlines many of the issues that are occurring in Colorado around travel and recreation management planning.
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Comments on Douglas-Fir Beetle Project DEIS (06/11/1999)
Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Douglas-Fir Beetle Project (National Forests in Idaho and Washington), Pete Morton, The Wilderness Society, March 1999.
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Comparison of Roadless Area Inventories in the Wenatchee, Okanogan, and Colville National Forests (07/08/2005)
Comparison of Roadless Area Inventories in the Wenatchee, Okanogan, and Colville National Forests
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County Economic Profiles (10/09/2003)
County economic profiles have been created as tools for citizens and activists to better understand economic trends in areas of interest.
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Drilling in the Rocky Mountains? Not so Fast! An Assessment of Surplus Drilling Permits & Leases on Federal Public Lands. (04/15/2004)
Fact sheet on upcoming report that examines permits and leases for drilling on public land in the Rocky Mountains. Many leases and drilling permits have gone unused at considerable taxpayer expense and calling into question the need to lease additional acres of public land, especially proposed wilderness, or to accelerate the application process for drilling permits.
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Factsheet: Browns Canyon Wilderness Act (04/28/2006)
The Browns Canyon Wilderness Act, HR 4235/S 1971, introduced by Congressman Joel Hefley (R-CO) and Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), will protect 20,000 acres of pristine Colorado canyon country, and the dramatic scenery of the Arkansas Valley, as wilderness.
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Factsheet: Current and Pending Attacks to Weaken NEPA in the Public Lands Context (04/11/2006)
The National Environmental Policy Act is facing threats along many fronts, including Congressional and White House task forces, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, using wildfire fears to weaken National Forest protections, grazing programs, and national security/border issues.
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Factsheet: Eastern Forests (02/01/2005)
The forests of the eastern United States once stretched almost unbroken from Maine to Mississippi and Florida, covering most of what are now 22 states and the District of Columbia. These forests fed and sheltered early Americans and helped shape our nation’s character. Today, these beautiful and rich forests, although much changed, continue to bless the region’s communities with a myriad of environmental and economic benefits.
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Factsheet: Fact & Fiction About the Mining Subtitle in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (11/28/2005)
Facts about the mining provision in the FY06 budget reconciliation bill.
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