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The Tribune—Monroe County commissioners and environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Forest Service’s implementation of the Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project in the Hoosier National Forest. In addition to the USFS’s failure to properly examine the impacts to Lake Monroe, the lawsuit claims the Forest Service is violating… Continue reading Forest Service sued again in effort to stop Hoosier National Forest project

Southern Environmental Law Center—A gate blocks the entrance and an ‘area closed’ sign threatens potential trespassers with fines or prison. The warnings come as centuries-old trees are being cut down and put on the back of logging trucks, making Brushy Mountain yet another point of conflict in the fight to save the nation’s oldest forests.… Continue reading Appalachian old growth recklessly put on the chopping block

The comment period for the National Old Growth Amendment ends on September 20, 2024! The U.S. Forest Service is working to amend management plans for every national forest in the country to protect old-growth, which could become one of the most meaningful safeguards for federal public forests that we have seen in decades. The agency… Continue reading Call to Action: Mature and Old Growth Forests Need Your Help

Inside Climate News—Roughly 70 percent of 22,000 people polled online earlier this year agreed that human activities were pushing the Earth past “tipping points,” thresholds beyond which nature cannot recover, like loss of the Amazon rainforest or collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents. Roughly one in two Americans said they are not very or not… Continue reading Deteriorating Environment Is a Global Public Concern

E&E News—The Forest Service faces “enormous” budget challenges that will likely affect how employees go about their daily jobs, agency Chief Randy Moore said. In a memo to employees on the Forest Service website Thursday, Moore said the agency is planning for fiscal 2025 based on the leanest scenario as spelled out in the House… Continue reading Forest Service budget woes persist into 2025

FSEEE — Citing outdated management objectives in the 20-year-old Land and Resource Management Plan for the Daniel Boone National Forest, officials are proposing to log mature and old-growth trees in the 16,969-acre Jellico project area. Read the story by Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed a federal lawsuit in February 2024 against the U.S. Forest Service, alleging the Forest Service’s ‘timber target’ decisions put the climate at risk, undermine the Biden administration’s important climate goals, and violate federal law. SELC filed the lawsuit after examining documents from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)… Continue reading SELC Webinar

REI—The U.S. Forest Service manages 193 million acres of the country’s forestlands and grasslands. But logging, development and climate-related stressors like wildfires and invasive species have dwindled our old-growth forests — home to our most ancient trees and ecosystems — to just 12% of these lands. That’s where the National Old-Growth Amendment comes in. The U.S. Forest… Continue reading Protect America’s old-growth forests

NHPR—The project will log more than 600 acres, a relatively tiny portion of the Sandwich Range’s more than 35,000 acreage. But it will cut trees near spots popular for hiking, bringing logging trucks to normally quiet slices of the forest. In certain tree stands, clear cuts are planned. Colloquially, many Granite Staters may see the… Continue reading ‘National forests are not national parks’: Logging debate in Whites divides forestry experts, environmentalists

ABC4—The U.S. Forest Service has stopped logging 147,000 acres of trees in Ashley National Forest in Utah because of a lawsuit filed against the project by conservation groups. The Forest Service authorized the project in October 2023. The Center for Biological Diversity says the project would tear down the habitat for many of Utah’s bighorn… Continue reading US Forest Service halts logging in Utah national forest