This is the top dog in conservation, a huge victory for now. This rule protects the last national forest roadless areas in the lower 48. It will likely be appealed by Wyoming. Also, the Bush administration is appealing the California judges decision.
Backers of a Clinton-era ban on logging and other development on millions of acres of national forest scored another victory today when a federal judge ruled against an effort by Wyoming to strike down the ban.
West recommended indefinitely extending an order preventing McCombs and his venture from starting road construction or applying for a key permit. The ruling must be upheld by U.S. District Judge John Kane.
Last week’s Question of the Week asked whether readers agree with the governor’s proposal to create a brucellosis buffer zone beyond the border of Yellowstone National Park. Most readers agreed.
This week, in what could become the nation’s next big environmental showdown, Alaska’s congressional delegation will try to break the decades-long impasse with a proposed land swap: adding more than 61,720 acres of protected wildlife habitat in exchange for a seven-mile road easement through a narrow isthmus of the Izembek refuge
Several major Forest Service roads at the north end of the Whitefish Divide are impassable because of erosion damage from severe rainstorms last fall, and some on the Kootenai National Forest may remain impassable well into 2008.
Mount Hood National Forest wants to squeeze buzzing all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles down to six designated playgrounds, part of a national push by the U.S. Forest Service to control roaming off-roaders who tear up the landscape.
The only problem is that the cabins near the ghost town of Ashcroft, long unoccupied, must be dismantled and moved, the Vail Daily reported. They are among eight structures being removed from the area.