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Our mission: protect national forests and reform the U.S. Forest Service by advocating environmental ethics, educating citizens, and defending whistleblowers.

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Researchers have trained three clever canines in California's San Joaquin Valley to sniff out the poop of endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizards. That allows scientists to locate them and study them without disturbing them.

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The National Environmental Policy Act gives the public a seat at the table when the Forest Service makes decisions on managing public lands. The Trump Administration wants to get rid of that seat.

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A man who claims that "The Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold" now leads the agency that manages the most land owned by the federal government.

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Dave Iverson, president of FSEEE's Board of Directors, makes a compelling argument for preserving roadless area protections for national forests in Utah in an op-ed published in the Salt Lake Tribune.

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For the past several years, managers have drained all the water from an Oregon reservoir for about a week each year so the stream that feeds it flows freely. The result? A boost for juvenile chinook salmon and the elimination of invasive warm-water fish.
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The Forest Service says workers will be allowed to use chainsaws this summer in two Colorado wilderness areas. Critics say the move would violate the Wilderness Act and set a precedent for using motorized equipment in wilderness areas in the future.
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In one of his last acts in office, then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in January ordered that a pair of Oregon ranchers who had been convicted of arson on public lands get their grazing permits back. Conservationists are suing.
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More than two dozen former Forest Service employees have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to back away from plans for a major copper and nickel mine just outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northeastern Minnesota.
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In congressional testimony this week, a Department of Interior official said a decision will be made by September about where to relocate the BLM's Washington D.C. headquarters. He said it will be somewhere in the West.

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The Trump administration wants to open more than 1 million acres in California to fracking. The BLM released a report last week that calls for allowing oil and gas development on portions of eight counties.

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Six Trump appointees are being investigated by the Department of Interior Inspector General for possible ethics violations, according to news reports. They join their boss, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who is also under investigation.

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A quartet of conservation groups served notice today that they intend to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to gain Endangered Species Act protections for the rare Siskiyou Mountains salamander.

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Officials on Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest are methodically retaking dozens of historical photos from the same vantage point as the original photographers. The side-by-side images document ecological changes over the decades.
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Drain the swamp? David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the petroleum industry and the new Interior Secretary, has had to recuse himself from dealings with more than two dozen former clients as a top official in Trump's Interior Department.
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A conservation group is suing the Forest Service and the BLM over their approval of a Canadian company's plans to drill dozens of holes on national forest land near Mount St. Helens to probe for gold and other minerals.
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A proposal for a major expansion of a small ski area in Utah is apparently on hold. The owners of the Nordic Valley ski area want to expand their operations into an inventoried roadless area on the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
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Kudos to Jefferson National Forest officials in Virginia for backing away from plans to log in an area that is a popular recreation destination and a hotspot for biodiversity.
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The Forest Service has approved a plan of operations for a massive open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona. Opponents vow to continue fighting the $2 billion mine, even though the CEO of the firm pushing the project has declared it "shovel-ready."

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A federal judge has delivered a significant blow to the Trump administration's "energy dominance" agenda, ruling that BLM officials must consider the cumulative impacts of greenhouse gas emissions when considering drilling projects on public lands.

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BLM officials are considering a request to allow 20,000 more people to attend the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada. Currently, attendance is capped at 80,000 for the nine-day event.
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