Stewardship pact gives Wyo more say on national forests
Agreement with federal agency calls for state role in ‘active management’ to combat fire threats, invasive weeds, but critics see it as a plan for more logging and industrial agriculture.
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Massive Medicine Bow logging plan sparks critics
Forest Service would log, cut, burn, build 600 miles of temporary roads across 562 square miles in Medicine Bow Mountains and Sierra Madre.
Logging planned near Chief Joseph Scenic Byway
The Forest Service has called for a timber harvest to curb an outbreak of spruce budworm and reduce fire fuel.
USFS chief opposes Barrasso’s forest health bill
The chief of the U.S. Forest Service criticized U.S. Sen. John Barrasso’s ecosystem improvement bill saying it would ignore forests’ biggest threat — a bad firefighting budget.
