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West Virginia MetroNews
March 29, 2018
The protesters put up a large pole overnight across the access road to the project in the Jefferson National Forest on the West Virginia/Virginia border. In addition to that, about 30 protesters gathered at the access road gate along Pocahontas Road on Peters Mountain. The U.S. Forest service called theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 29, 2018
The U.S. Forest Service announced the fire danger level throughout Angeles National Forest has been lowered from "very high" to "high" following a rainy few weeks. (File Photo). The fire danger level in Angeles National Forest has been lowered from "very high" to "high" following weeks of off and on rain,Ãâà...
San Bernardino County Sun
March 28, 2018
The San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests will be smoky, but safe, as the U.S. Forest Service conducts a series of planned burns this week to keep the land healthy. Burns started Tuesday in the Cleveland National Forest on Palomar Mountain southeast of Temecula. They are plannedÃâà...
klyq
March 28, 2018
This year's personal firewood cutting permits go on sale April 2 at Bitterroot National Forest Service offices. ... not for commercial use; personal use only, and allow users to remove downed timber or standing dead trees on National Forests and Grassland and Bureau of Land Management lands in Montana,Ãâà...
LEX18 Lexington KY News
March 28, 2018
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky (LEX 18) Now that the weather is starting to warm up, Laurel County rangers with the US Forest Service are investigating several illegal dumping sites found in the Daniel Boone National Forest. "It's a forest that's supposed to be protected, and it's not from people who want to dumpÃâà...
KDLT News (blog)
March 27, 2018
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Aerial surveys indicate that 4,700 acres of the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming were affected by mountain pine beetles last year. That's higher than the 2,500 acres that were affected in 2016 but still below what the U.S. Forest Service considers an epidemicÃâà...
The Hill
March 27, 2018
Finally, the preservation of the old growth trees is crucial to our long-term national climate change policy. Tongass is one of the last temperate forests. One forest service soil scientist estimated that Tongass stores an estimated 10-12 percent of all carbon stored in our national forests. Short-sighted efforts toÃâà...
WBOY-TV
March 27, 2018
ELKINS, W.Va. - The Monongahela National Forest Service hosted a media relations workshop at headquarters in Randolph County. For many personnel, working with the media is new or completely foreign, and officials at the National Forest Service are working to change that. “I don't really have anyÃâà...
Martinsville Bulletin
March 24, 2018
The Caldwell Fields Campground in the Jefferson National Forest has been established as a “safe location … for people to exercise their First Amendment rights” about protesters who are sitting in two trees along the pipeline's route in an attempt to block its construction, the Forest Service said Friday.
Duluth News Tribune
March 24, 2018
The purchase is part of a larger land deal, talked about for decades and in the works for years, that will see the National Forest Service finally assume ownership of about 83,000 acres of state land locked inside the boundaries of the 1.1 million-acre BWCAW since 1978. The Minnesota Legislature in 2012Ãâà...
Bend Bulletin
March 24, 2018
Despite snowy conditions Friday, 13 campgrounds scattered throughout the Deschutes National Forest opened for Oregon's spring break, weeks ahead of the traditional start of the ... She said the Forest Service was hopeful that snow would melt enough to allow those campsites to open later in the week.
Live 5 News
March 23, 2018
Officials are planning prescribed burning operations at Francis Marion National Forest through the end of August. The Forest Service says the actual dates of these operations will be dependent on weather and fuel conditions. "The purpose is to lessen hazardous fuel accumulations, to provide communitiesÃâà...
Corvallis Gazette Times
March 23, 2018
Headquartered in Corvallis, the Siuslaw National Forest covers 630,000 acres between Tillamook and Coos Bay. Located mostly along the coast, the forest contains the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. It also includes the upper slopes of Marys Peak, the high point of the Coast Range just west ofÃâà...
Ocala
March 22, 2018
The U.S. Forest Service is doing prescribed burning in the Ocala National Forest today. The 1,340 acre burn will take place in Marion County south of Kerr Lake, southeast of County Road 314 and east of Forest Road 11. According to the service, the burn will improve wildlife habitat, eliminate vegetationÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
March 22, 2018
The amount of money that individuals and families spend while traveling to National Forests remains steady year to year. “We've really concluded that it's very stable over time once you account for inflation,” he said. The National Forest Service has been surveying users about spending habits since 2000.
Juneau Empire
March 22, 2018
In a time of transition for the Tongass National Forest and belt-tightening for the wildfire-beleaguered USFS, Schmid said he hopes to leverage 23 ... regional director of the USFS' Alaska Region, one of nine regions in the U.S. He'll oversee about 640 federal employees and two national forests: the 17Ãâà...
Hendersonville Lightning
March 1, 2018
In announcing today's sentence Judge Reidinger referred to the national forests and parks of the Western District of North Carolina as “national treasure” ... Murray thanked the U.S. Forest Service, the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office and the Brevard Police Department for their investigation of the case.
Daily Herald
March 1, 2018
The forest service has good news. Two additional rental cabins on the Manti-La Sal National Forest are now available to reserve for dates beginning this summer. The Mammoth and Lake Cabins are located off SR-264 near Gooseberry Reservoir, just off Skyline Drive. Constructed in the 1930s by the CivilÃâà...
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
March 1, 2018
The U.S. Forest Service released a proposal Thursday that would move a few miles of the Porcupine Lowline Trail off private land in the Crazies where a landowner had ... Mary Erickson, supervisor of the Custer Gallatin National Forest, said the reroute will ensure the public has access into the future.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 1, 2018
Lisa Murkowski's roundtable discussions on the Tongass National Forest, it would be “Access.” Over and over, the senator and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke heard panelists say they need more access to the forest. Through roads, through less-cumbersome permitting, through whatever means.
Highland Community News
March 1, 2018
Last year, more than 1,500 wildfires burned over 640,000 acres on National Forest System lands in California, including the Thomas Fire, the largest fire in California's recorded history. The surrounding communities are still dealing with damage from debris flows caused by a charred and barren landscapeÃâà...
Tallahassee.com
March 1, 2018
Unlike national forests in the west, all the lands of the ANF (as with most eastern forests) were purchased from private owners and were cutover and frequently burned before acquisition. Over the past 80 years, the U.S. Forest Service has reforested these lands, protected them from wildfire, tended the forestÃâà...
WBOY-TV
March 1, 2018
ELKINS, W.Va. - Monongahela National Forest Service hosted a contractor outreach meeting and workshop at the Phil Gainer Community Center in Elkins. The informational course was for local contractors who are interested in working on projects related to the June 2016 flood in West Virginia.
KEYT
February 28, 2018
The Los Padres Forest Service had to start their annual pile burning late due to the poor weather conditions and the Thomas Fire. Patches of controlled fire could be seen throughout the mountain side of Los Padres National Forest. “We finally were able to start conducting our pile burning for the year,” saidÃâà...
Wyoming Business Report
February 27, 2018
U.S. Forest Service representatives presented the Medicine Bow National Forest Landscape Vegetation Analysis project to the Albany County Commission on Feb. 20 to clarify any misconceptions about the analysis and how it would benefit ecosystems in the national forest. The analysis outlines threeÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 27, 2018
OLD FORT – The first waterfall death of the year in Western North Carolina is also the second one in less than a year at Catawba Falls in the McDowell County area of the Pisgah National Forest. At 11:45 a.m. Saturday, 37-year-old Jimmy Paul Schmidt Jr., who was visiting from Georgia, fell to his death fromÃâà...
KTOO
December 31, 1999
Schmid began his Forest Service career in Alaska. He and his wife moved here in the early 1980s for his first agency job, in Southcentral's Chugach National Forest. Later, he worked in the Tongass in Southeast. “Over the years I think we spent 23 years together in Alaska and just having an opportunity toÃâà...
