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Forest Service tree-thinning helps Gypsum biomass plant
Gypsum :: CO :: USA | 6 months ago
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Forest Service awarded a total of $13.4 million to two Colorado companies on Monday, and one of those stewardship contracts has positive implications for a biomass plant here. West Range Reclamation of Hotchkiss will receive $8.66 million through a
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Carbondale eyes 'no new leasing' alternative
Carbondale :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
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But in the draft remarks that Carbondale's trustees will be reviewing, a halt to leasing is advised. The no new leasing alternative, Alternative B, is sensible from economic, social, and environmental perspectives, states the letter containing the
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Forest merger study begins
Idaho Falls :: ID :: USA | 6 months ago
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The point of the merger which at this point is only an idea is to save money. Representatives of the two national forests met in a teleconference...The goal of the teleconference was to assign tasks to members of the two focus groups, Bridger-Teton
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Christmas-tree-cutting season starts Monday, Nov. 19
Grants Pass :: OR :: USA | 6 months ago
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Mail Tribune If you are dreaming of finding that perfect Christmas tree in the mountains of southwestern Oregon this holiday season, you have barely a month before the jolly old elf arrives...Beginning Monday, Nov. 19, Uncle Sam will again offer
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Avy center to have new director, new website
Sun Valley :: ID :: USA | 7 months ago
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Former avalanche forecaster Simon Trautman has been chosen as the center's new director, after former Director Chris Lundy stepped down at the end of the 2011-12 season. Chris was a really good director, and it was a bummer that he stepped down,
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Thompson Divide debate
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 7 months ago
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A key dispute within the dispute over proposed oil and gas development in the Thompson Divide area involves dozens of leases issued in national forest roadless areas there in 2003. That was two years after President Bill Clinton, in one of his final
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Six Rivers National Forest visitor information specialist retires
Eureka :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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It has been a good career and I am going to miss my Forest Service family and the public I serve very much, said Rose in the release, adding that the first thing he wanted to do was to take his wife, Elisa, to the Grand Canyon. A farewell potluck
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Forest Service oil and gas leasing open house is today
Carbondale :: IL :: USA | 7 months ago
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Colorado White River National Forest officials are hosting an open house today to review details of the national forest's Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The open house is set on a come-and-go format from 3-6 p.m.
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Six Rivers to begin fall forest burning
Eureka :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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The Times-Standard Fire crews will soon begin prescribed burn projects in the Six Rivers National Forest to help lower the risk of future wildfires. According to a press release, prescribed burns will begin this fall as the hot and dry weather and
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High court rejects challenge to roadless rule
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | 8 months ago
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The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests. The justices said Monday they will leave in place a federal appeals court decision that upheld the
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