April 19, 2007

Washington: Funding for our national forests is disgraceful

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 12:49 pm

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So, four years after those 2003 floods, the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie still had a $5 million-plus backlog of repairs that were never completed — and then got hit with another $11 million in damages in last winter’s storms.

A huge win for bull trout!

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 12:48 pm

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Judge Finds Malheur National Forest Grazing Unlawfully Impacts Endangered Trout

PORTLAND, OREGON, Apr. 19 -/E-Wire/– Fish advocates hailed a decision from a federal court yesterday that rejected the Bush administration’s plan for rolling back protections to threatened steelhead and bull trout from livestock grazing on eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, violating the Endangered Species Act.