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Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow [1]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained and disclosed a USFS memo ordering its law enforcement personnel not to talk to reporters about anything without first getting clearance from its Washington director and press office.

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Forests [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Government [5]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Canada's Forestry Firms, Enviros Call Truce Over Northern Forest [8]

"The battle between forestry companies protecting their timber supply and environmentalists trying to save the trees has been too fierce to hide in the shade of Canada's vast boreal forest. But after decades of fighting, the bitter foes have agreed to bury the hatchet."

Forests [3]
Public [7]
Canada [9]
Source: Canwest [10], 05/18/2010

Russian Olives and Tamarisk Get A Little Federal Love [11]

A new report by the US Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, US Forest Service, other federal agencies, and university experts says the water-hogging reputation of the two species has little merit, but found that effects on wildlife are mixed.

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TipSheet [12]
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Forests [3]
Water & Oceans [13]
Biodiversity [14]
Government [5]
Science [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Northwest (OR WA) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
California [19]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [20]
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Feds Have Sent Nearly $650 Million to Private Forest Owners [21]

The USFS Forest Legacy Program has awarded a total of $72 million to 36 property owners in 33 states and territories to apply conservation easements to their land, with the goal of preventing development or other uses of the land that would reduce its forest value.

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TipSheet [12]
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Economy & Business [22]
Planning & Growth [23]
Forests [3]
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]

Natives, Enviros Vie Over Spectacular Tongass National Forest [24]

"Legislation would transfer prized sections to an Alaska Native company for logging. Native leaders say it's long overdue. Preservationists are outraged."

Forests [3]
Public [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [25]
Source: LA Times [26], 04/13/2010
April 19, 2010 to April 22, 2010

World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth [27]

The Plurinational State of Bolivia will host this conference on climate change with an expected attendance of  >10,000 people along with government  representatives from more than 50 countries, as well as many more via the Internet and in campaign actions on the final day of the conference, 22 April, Earth Day.

Other Events [28]
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Climate Change [29]
Forests [3]
Activism [30]
People & Population [31]
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International [32]
South America [33]

"ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder" [34]

"Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies."

Forests [3]
Public [7]
Mexico [35]
Source: IPS [36], 03/09/2010

Forest Service Issues Gag Order to Employees on Talking to Reporters [37]

Monongahela National Forest's public affairs officer recently directed employees there that, if contacted by national reporters on any issue or local reporters regarding national issues, they "cannot talk to the reporter"and suggested that the instructions came from "our Washington office."

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"Industry Loses Lawsuit Over Alaska Forest Logging" [38]

"A federal judge has thrown out an industry lawsuit that could have led to more logging and road building in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest federal forest."

Forests [3]
Public [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [25]
Source: AP [39], 02/18/2010

"Bark Beetles' Song Could Save Forests" [40]

"Researchers at Northern Arizona University think they may have found an environmentally safe and readily available weapon against the tree-eating armies of bark beetles. It is, with apologies to the boys from Liverpool, the music of the beetles."

02/09/2010
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