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Travel Analysis Best Practices: A Review of Completed Travel Analysis Process Reports PDF

Whether its water, wildlife, or wildlands, roads have been identified as the major impact on the forest environment. Many national forest roads were built during the frenzied decades of the logging boom and were simply abandoned. The Forest Service currently has around 375,000 miles of known system roads – enough to travel around the earth 15 times. Many of these roads are unneeded, causing tremendous environmental damage, and should be reclaimed and reforested.

Northeast Swift Timber Project Comment Letter PDF

The Table Mountain Roadless Area inside New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest would be logged — and in some locations clear-cut — under the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed “Northeast Swift” timber project. The land is visible to the north from the famous Kancamagus Scenic Highway. This is the eighth timber project proposed in the forest’s roadless areas since 2005, and we have submitted comments outlining our strong opposition.

Audio from California wildfire radio story AUDIO

Click below to listen to the story.

Audio from Chaparral Fire Press Conference AUDIO

This press conference was held on July 20, 2011. Click below to listen.

National Forest Management Act (NFMA) DEIS Comments PDF

The Wilderness Society has produced the most comprehensive set of comments on the Forest Service’s proposed rule on National Forest System planning. Our comments identify many ways in which the rule should be improved to protect and restore wildlife habitat, watersheds, recreational opportunities, wilderness, and other important environmental and economic values of the National Forests and Grasslands.

Seeing the Tongass for the Trees: The Economics of Transitioning to Sustainable Forest Management PDF

State of our public lands policy briefing AUDIO

Over the past two years of the Obama Administration, the Interior Department has implemented new policy and land management guidance, managed an oil spill disaster, and kicked off an effort to increase clean energy development on our public lands. We’ve also seated new members in the 112th Congress. All of this has stirred new conversations in the media and on Capitol Hill. The Wilderness Society has been leading the charge to defend our public lands and strengthen protections for threatened places.

CAPE Awards 2010 Announced PDF

Celebrating Milestones in Conservation for our Public Lands We have witnessed some inspiring achievements for public lands conservation over the past year, made possible by the tireless and heroic efforts of BLM staff, invested citizens, and our amazing partner groups. The BLM Action Center is proud to present the 2010 CAPE Awards – a top ten list of this year’s greatest moments for the spectacular landscapes managed by the BLM.

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