This study conducted by Stillwater Sciences for The Wilderness Society examines the effects of timber harvests on coho salmon populations in a heavily logged watershed on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island, and the results are alarming: Logging and related road construction and erosion near Sta
Alaska is America’s last great, wild frontier. In Alaska you can still see caribou migrating through vast valleys, salmon streams running through ancient forests and polar bears roaming icy shores of the Arctic Ocean.
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.
I have never visited the Tongass National Forest, and there’s probably a good chance that I never will. But like many other silence-evoking places, I find both comfort and pride in knowing it exists today much as it did in the past.
A decade after it was first adopted by the U.S. Forest Service, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has proven to be remarkably successful in protecting the 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas from road building and logging.
In a sharp course change from current federal policy, the Obama administration said Wednesday it wants far more of Oregon and four other western states set aside to protect a native, wide-ranging fish called the bull trout.
It would mean a more than fivefold increase in the miles of rivers and acres of lakes dedicated as critical habitat for the threatened species, and could mean more restrictions on recreation and development on federal lands, which cover roughly half of Oregon.
A federal judge has denied the government's request that he reconsider or limit his 2008 decision to Wyoming after tossing the 2001 roadless rule nationwide -- a decision that conflicts with a California federal judge's decision upholding the rule.
The ban will provide much-needed breathing room for those on both sides of the debate and at least temporarily halt development that could cause irreparable harm to these backcountry treasures.
…But that protection is vital for wildlife, for pure water and for the quiet and solitude that forests provide to hunters, anglers, hikers and others who need to escape the noise, crowds and ugliness that pervade so much of the urban world.
