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  • Land management act hurts environment (Enviroreasonable alert)

    02/04/2009 9:04:43 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 2 replies · 279+ views
    The Daily Journal (San Mateo County, CA) ^ | Wednesday Feburary 4, 2009 | Justin Wickett
    Whoever said that money doesn’t grow on trees was dead wrong. For years, my grandfather harvested and sold old-growth Redwood timbers to saw mills scattered throughout California’s Santa Cruz mountains. But that was before environmentalism went mainstream and the state introduced some of the world’s toughest rules and regulations to govern the logging industry. Gone are the monstrous bulldozers of my grandfather’s years that dragged felled virgin trees over the forest floor, destroying habitats and neglecting streams and rivers in their paths. Today, California’s timber harvest operations rely on a system of checks and balances. Registered foresters, technology-savvy loggers and...
  • Schwarzenegger's bid to save the rainforest (with Blogojevich and Doyle)

    11/21/2008 9:44:20 AM PST · by calcowgirl · 13 replies · 522+ views
    guardian.co.uk ^ | November 21 2008 | Duncan Clark
    Three US governors join forces with Indonesia and Brazil to keep carbon locked up in endangered tropical forests Though it didn't seems to make an enormous splash in the press, the deal reached this week between three US states, Indonesia and Brazil seems like a fairly big deal in terms of rainforest protection. The agreement was brokered at the climate summit convened by California's ecosavvy governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Along with fellow governors from Illinois and Wisconsin, Schwarzenegger signed an agreement that could see carbon credits earned from forest protection in Indonesia or Brazil incorporated into US emissions trading schemes. Partly,...
  • Researchers to torch beetle-killed trees in Rocky Mountain National Park

    11/15/2008 9:35:44 AM PST · by george76 · 16 replies · 1,009+ views
    summit daily news ^ | November 14, 2008 | Bob Berwyn
    An experimental fire planned for beetle-killed lodgepole pines in Rocky Mountain National Park should help determine when the trees are most flammable. Officials incessantly cite the increased risk of fire danger in beetle-killed forests as the prime reason to cut and thin dead lodgepole pines. But controlled burns also could prove a useful tool in treating blighted stands of pines, especially when it comes to regenerating new stands. The risk of a crown fire is thought to be greatest in stands comprised primarily of standing dead trees with red needles than among healthy, green trees. Sometime in the next few...
  • Greenpeace says has occupied timber export ship in PNG

    09/04/2008 5:37:52 AM PDT · by Abathar · 21 replies · 304+ views
    AFP via Yahoo! ^ | Thu Sep 4, 2008 | UNknown
    PORT MORESBY (AFP) - Environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that its activists had boarded a logging ship in Papua New Guinea to prevent it exporting timber to China. Greenpeace Australia Pacific said four activists climbed on a loading crane aboard the ship Harbour Gemini at Paia Inlet on PNG's southwest coast to stop logs being loaded. Greenpeace argues the ship is being operated by Malaysian-owned logging company Rimbunan Hijau, which it accuses of breaking PNG's forestry laws. "We need to urgently protect these ancient forests to save our climate," Greenpeace campaigner Sam Moko said in a statement. "Greenpeace is asking...
  • An Oregon county could vanish along with timber payments

    07/13/2008 4:46:42 PM PDT · by george76 · 56 replies · 129+ views
    The Oregonian ^ | July 13, 2008 | MATTHEW PREUSCH
    Is it possible that one of Oregon's 36 counties could disappear? And if so, would anyone step in to provide basic services to its residents? The answer to the first question, according to many in and out of government, is yes, and soon. At least two Oregon counties, Curry and Josephine, warn they may stop providing state-mandated programs as soon as a year from now. But no one is sure who would step in to take over services such as elections and law enforcement, which has county leaders concerned and the state scrambling to put together a system for saving...
  • Top federal judges clear path for more logging (Amazing ruling for 9th Circuit)

    07/03/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 104 replies · 746+ views
    The Oregonian ^ | July 3, 2008 | Michael Milstein
    Top federal judges ruled this week that their own court has gone too far in holding up logging projects, saying western judges from now on must show more deference to the agencies planning the cutting. The ruling involving an Idaho timber sale is a blow to environmental groups that have increasingly relied on federal courts to block projects they see as unsound. The decision is especially striking because it comes from the federal appeals court that encompasses most national forest land in the West and is known for its liberal bent and for often siding with environmental interests. The...
  • Tax increases, more logging proposed to rescue counties

    06/24/2008 8:37:39 PM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies · 149+ views
    The Register-Guard ^ | June 24, 2008 | Greg Bolt
    With two-thirds of Oregon county governments, including Lane County, facing financial crises, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Monday urged residents to accept modest local property tax increases and more logging on federal forests to help stave off deep cuts in county law enforcement and other critical services. Those steps are just two of 54 recommendations in a task force report delivered to the governor on Monday. Kulongoski commissioned the report last year to address the imminent loss of about $238 million in annual federal timber payments, including $47 million a year to Lane County. The top recommendation was for Oregon...
  • Agriculture chief's priority: avoid jail

    02/24/2008 12:24:14 PM PST · by girlangler · 12 replies · 111+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 2/23/2008 | Matthew Daly
    Agriculture chief's priority: avoid jail By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 23, 10:12 AM ET WASHINGTON - He overhauled federal forest policy to cut more trees — and became a lightning rod for environmentalists who say he is intent on logging every tree in his reach. After nearly seven years in office, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey still has a long to-do list. Near the top: Persuade a federal judge to keep him out of jail. Rey, a former timber industry lobbyist who has directed U.S. forest policy since 2001, also wants to set up state rules making it...
  • Timber is a resource — let’s use it

    02/15/2008 7:24:16 PM PST · by george76 · 27 replies · 110+ views
    The Register-Guard ^ | February 14, 2008 | Suzanne Penegor and Gienie Assink
    In the 1930s, when the United States was mired in a Great Depression, Congress wisely and with great vision approved the O&C Lands Act to guide the management of federal lands that once belonged to the Oregon & California Railroad... The act established a method for funding Oregon counties, allowing them to provide such vital services as public safety and road maintenance. Now, because of the efforts of the environmental movement and its litigious attorneys, the O&C funding formula that was successful for decades has been severed. Environmental groups and their allies argue that tourism can take the place of...
  • Mudslide photo spurs look at logging practices

    12/16/2007 12:37:03 AM PST · by BurbankKarl · 22 replies · 1,048+ views
    Seattle Times ^ | 12/16/07 | Hal Bernton
    Nearly 3 ½ years ago, Weyerhaeuser asked state officials for approval to clear-cut 106 acres on a steep mountain slope fronting on Stillman Creek in Lewis County. This was a slide-prone drainage. But a Weyerhaeuser geologist found "no potentially unstable areas" in the area to be harvested and the state approved the logging. Earlier this month, the huge storm that enveloped Southwest Washington triggered numerous slides on this slope. Slides crashed into Stillman Creek, a major tributary of the South Fork of Chehalis River, adding to the destructive mix of mud, wood debris and floodwaters that inundated homes and farms...
  • Local log business looked at as model for state

    12/08/2007 2:43:21 PM PST · by george76 · 23 replies · 225+ views
    summit daily news ^ | December 8, 2007 | Lory Pounder
    Pine beetle kill trees have new purpose. Playing with Lincoln Logs as a child meant getting to be an architect constructing dream homes. Now, in Summit County, that toy is the inspiration for making those homes a reality while putting the lodgepole pine beetle kill trees to use. Using a log lathe machine, the bark is removed (which kills the pine beetle), smoothed and a notch is put in it similar to they way Lincoln Logs look so the logs will seamlessly fit together. And as this business has come together, it has gained state attention. Recently, a representative from...
  • Forest Service: Logging Rule Saved Homes

    12/07/2007 6:02:03 AM PST · by stratous · 5 replies · 89+ views
    Washington post ^ | 12/06/07 | Matthew Daly
    WASHINGTON -- A federal rule that allowed expedited logging on national forests saved thousands of homes during the recent wildfires in California, the Forest Service chief said Thursday.
  • CA: Appeals court overturns Forest Service logging rule (9th Circus)

    12/05/2007 3:34:01 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 30 replies · 84+ views
    A federal appeals court has ruled the U.S. Forest Service violated federal law when it allowed logging projects without analyzing their effects on the environment. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with environmentalists who challenged a Bush administration rule that exempted certain timber sales and prescribed forest burns from environmental analysis. The Wednesday decision by the San Francisco-based court overturns a lower court ruling that favored the administration. The Sierra Club and Sierra Forest Legacy sued in 2004 challenging the Forest Service rule, which has been a key component of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests Initiative."
  • Timber to be burned Wednesday in Vail

    11/07/2007 10:06:28 AM PST · by george76 · 22 replies · 109+ views
    Vail Daily ^ | November 7, 2007
    About 20 piles of downed pine and aspen trees will be burned Wednesday and Thursday ... The trees were cut down this fall by crews building a buffer between the forest and neighborhoods to prevent the spread of wildfires. Once more snow falls, some of the 250 piles of timber remaining on the upper bench of Donovan Park will be burned.
  • Keeping home fires burning ( Logging for Bio Mass Fuel )

    11/09/2007 8:31:14 AM PST · by george76 · 20 replies · 446+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | November 9, 2007 | Roger Fillion
    New mill to turn dead trees into pellet fuel. Colorado's first wood-pellet mill owes its birth to pine beetles that are killing millions of trees near the town of Kremmling and across northwest Colorado. The diseased trees will be the new Kremmling mill's chief input - a new twist for the pellet-fuel industry. The 18,000-square-foot plant is billed as the largest west of the Mississippi. It's slated in February to start grinding trees into environmentally friendly pellets for wood-pellet stoves and industrial and commercial pellet boilers. Many of the trees are too skinny or too cracked and old to be...
  • Lots of logs, not enough loggers

    11/07/2007 1:21:09 PM PST · by george76 · 51 replies · 180+ views
    Vail Daily ^ | February 1, 2005 | Cliff Thompson
    When the U.S. Forest Service received no bids on two small timber sales in Eagle County earlier this year, the agency's local rangers encountered what is becoming a problem throughout the intermountain West. The federal agency got a lesson in market economics and the three-way tug of war over lumber in national forests. There were no bidders for the timber "salvage" sales designed to remove trees killed by infesting pine beetles. The Forest Service also wants to sell the dead trees so they won't add extra fuel to wildfires. The glut of dead trees is occurring at a time when...
  • Does fire threat drop as trees fall ?

    11/09/2007 8:08:42 AM PST · by george76 · 11 replies · 78+ views
    Vail Daily ^ | November 8, 2007 | Edward Stoner
    Local foresters predict that up to 90 percent of lodgepole pines will die in some areas near West Vail. Local firefighters say that creates a veritable tenderbox that could easily ignite and spread. Sackbauer was pleased to see lots of work being done near his home this summer to reduce the risk of fire spreading, either from the forest into the neighborhood, or vice versa. workers created a 200- to 300-foot barrier of “defensible space,” a clear-cut area that aims to help stop the spread of fire. The town also hired a six-man “hand crew” to cut trees on town-owned...
  • As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West

    10/13/2007 4:56:07 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 17 replies · 158+ views
    New York Times ^ | October 13, 2007 | Kirk Johnson
    WHITEFISH, Mont. — William P. Foley II pointed to the mountain. Owns it, mostly. A timber company began logging in view of his front yard a few years back. He thought they were cutting too much, so he bought the land. Mr. Foley belongs to a new wave of investors and landowners across the West who are snapping up open spaces as private playgrounds on the borders of national parks and national forests. In style and temperament, this new money differs greatly from the Western land barons of old — the timber magnates, copper kings and cattlemen who created the...
  • Forest Service considers thinning near Estes Park ( reduce destructive wildfire potential )

    09/09/2007 7:21:56 PM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies · 533+ views
    Loveland Reporter-Herald ^ | September 09, 2007 | Ann Depperschmidt
    U.S. Forest Service officials have released a plan to reduce destructive wildfire potential on about 8,100 acres of forest land east of Estes Park. The goal of the Thompson River Fuel Reduction Project is to reduce the spread and intensity of wildfires that could affect private property and municipal water supplies in and around the Big and Little Thompson rivers and to protect the forest’s ecosystem. Historically, small fires thinned forest undergrowth and kept the chances for a large wildfire to a minimum. But through much of the 20th century, people suppressed those fires. That left a more dense undergrowth,...
  • Bark worse for blight: Forest Service to hound beetles

    09/02/2007 7:28:52 AM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies · 496+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | September 1, 2007 | Jerd Smith
    Tree-thinning to begin in fall in Colorado, Wyo. The U.S. Forest Service is launching a major effort to battle bark beetles across an 80,000-acre swath of Colorado and Wyoming, its largest assault to date on the fire-prone forests. The plan, announced Friday, calls for thinning and tree removal in five Colorado counties and two in Wyoming. The program, aided by $8 million in new federal funding, relies on partnerships between the federal agency and the mountain counties where rust-red trees are causing the most danger to humans. Mary Ann Chandler, a Forest Service spokeswoman, said the agency has structured the...