At the height of summer in Tennessee's eastern mountains Wednesday, kudzu was growing waist-high and higher at the gated entrance to the Trail of Tears segment, and the first 3- to 4-foot high berm is invisible under the thick, tangled…
“This agreement strengthens the already strong partnership between the Forest Service and the State of Utah,” said Perdue. “Through shared stewardship, Utah and the Forest Service are working together to identify landscape-scale priorities and build capacity to improve forest conditions.”…
Mounting evidence suggest the wildfires were in large part a result of regulatory failure. ProPublica, an investigative outlet based in New York, reviewed records and conducted dozens of interviews concerning one of these deadly fires: the Carr Fire. Its team ultimately…
Department of Justice attorney Sean Martin, representing the Forest Service, told Sullivan the 2015 range analysis was designed to improve habitat for catchfly, a species first documented in 2004 that has survived more than 200 years of cattle and horse…
After spending many summers on Crooked Lake in the U.P., we finally purchased our own lakefront property in 2010. Like generations of Michiganians before us, we planned to use the water for boating and fishing. We were living our dream. Until…
The era of replacing science-based resource management with heady, specious 'environmentalist' theories formulated by radical special interest groups needs to end. If Interior is to have any legitimacy at all, those it hires to serve the people of this country…
Declining populations of threatened bull trout along two rivers in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest were not caused by grazing authorizations, a federal judge has ruled. Mateusz Perkowski Capital Press Judge: Grazing not to blame for bull trout decline. Environmentalists have…
Despite the strong likelihood that Bears Ears National Monument will be modified in coming months, Forest Service officials in southeastern Utah are planning to destroy at least 14 public roads within the monument's current boundaries. by Marjorie Haun After an…
The entire premise of Ms. Probert’s restricting the dredges on that river are based on a forged letter, as stated on the record by Ranger Nevius. Who forged the letter and why did this bombshell statement not stop the process? …
These structure fires occurred during the same time period that five cabins at Cabin Creek were 'accidentally' burned to the ground. In this instance, the rangers reported they were "burning garbage" when the flames suddenly got away from them. There…