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Latest Library Content tagged with "Forest Service"

Protecting New Hampshire’s Wild Places PDF

Covering almost 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and Maine, the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) contains some of the most untamed country remaining in the Northeast – yet the Forest Service is approving more destructive logging projects on this single protected “roadless” forests than it has for the rest of the entire country combined.

Selected Federal Lands in the United States MAP PDF

This map illustrates Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service areas.

Letter to Senators from TWS and Partners asking Congress to appropriate funds to Legacy Roads Remediation Initiative PDF

This letter was written to Senators regarding the Legacy Roads Remediation Initiative as defined in the House Interior Appropriations bill (HR 2643).

Targeting the Community Fire Planning Zone: Mapping Matters PDF

Protecting communities threatened by wildland fire is one of the highest priorities of federal fire policy. The National Fire Plan and the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy have called on federal agencies such the USDA Forest Service and the USDOI Bureau of Land Management to focus their efforts on the “wildland-urban interface,” where private homes abut fire-prone public wildlands.

Washington National Forests Fact Sheet PDF

Roadless Areas: The Missing Link in Conservation - An Analysis of Biodiversity and Landscape Connectivity in the Northern Rockies PDF

In January 2001, the U.S. Forest Service adopted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule that seeks to conserve a large portion of unprotected wildland on national forests for posterity. However, the Bush Administration has suspended the rule for an indefinite period of time. To exemplify the importance of roadless areas to conservation goals, TWS conducted a state-of-the-art landscape analyses in the Northern Rockies to investigate potential ecological impact of roadless areas.