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New rules in the forest could mean big changes
January 26, 2012 6:37 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wildlife while promoting uses ranging from recreation to logging. The new rules, to replace guidelines thrown out by a federal court in 2009, are to be released... more » -
Loggers to begin removing dead pine trees
July 11, 2011 11:17 AM
RED FEATHER LAKES, Colo. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is allowing logging contractors to cut down beetle-killed trees, taking over tree removal and thinning projects. Ranger Kevin Atchley says the trees are dead, covering hundreds of thousands of acres, and need to be removed. Some contractors are using... more » -
Area's of National Forest blocked for logging and mining
June 1, 2011 5:27 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has extended for another year a rule that blocks most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote sections of national forests. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he wants to preserve the so-called roadless rule while officials wait for federal courts to... more » -
Logging for the forest service to fight wildfires
January 12, 2010 7:55 PM
The US Forest Service is trying to better prevent catastrophic fires in our state by thinning the number of trees in the forest. They have contracted with logging companies to cut down trees in several large-acre swaths of Colorado's national forest lands. Under a 10 year public/private forest stewardship... more » -
Logging in Kenya forest feeds deadly drought
October 25, 2009 8:49 AM
More than 200 of Ole Saloli's cows have died, ruining his children's inheritance and his safety net for old age. Now he wanders miles seeking pasture for the surviving animals, his bare feet as cracked and dry as the Kenyan earth he sleeps upon. Saloli, who estimates he is... more »
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