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Map
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Forests
Forever Campaigns affecting
California's Federal Forests
Bush
guts the Roadless Area Conservation Rule
Clinton-era rule protecting roadless
areas from logging, drilling, and roadbuilding.
Sign
the citizen's petition to protect our last wild forests (10/11/05)
Bill
would make Roadless Area Conservation Rule federal law (5/20/05)
Bush
administration repeals the roadless rule (5/6/05)
Place
an Earth Day call to the governor and tell him to stand up for the
roadless rule (4/18/05)
The
Northwest Forest Plan
Designed
to strike a balance between logging and old-growth habitat protection,
the plan has now been tilted toward the timber industry.
Forest
Service strips Northwest Forest Plan of protections for old-growth,
watersheds, wildlife (3/29/04)
Sierra
Nevada Framework
The
revisions to the Framework throw out forest protections in favor
of increased logging.
Forest Service
rewrite of Sierra Nevada Framework threatens old growth and wildlife
(2/20/04)
Undoing
of Sierra Nevada Framework (6/27/03)
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National
Forests in California
(Links
below lead to Forest Service
web pages for each forest)
Angeles
National Forest
Cleveland
National Forest
Eldorado National Forest
Inyo National Forest
Klamath National Forest
Lassen National Forest
Los Padres National
Forest
Mendocino National Forest
Modoc National Forest
Plumas National Forest
San Bernardino National
Forest
Sequoia National Forest
Shasta-Trinity National
Forest
Sierra National Forest
Six Rivers National
Forest
Stanislaus National
Forest
Tahoe National Forest
Toiyabe National Forest
Federal
Forests in the news
Forest
Service looks beyond land sales for revenue (The Olympian,
3/28/06)
Salvage
logging bill would cut review time for projects (S.F. Chronicle,
3/16/06)
National
forest logging turns green trees to red ink (Tahoe Daily Tribune,
11/29/05)
US
slashes estimated recreational value of national forests 90% (S.F.
Chronicle, 8/17/05)
Helicopter
logging in national forest (S.F. Chronicle, 8/2/05)
Sequoia
forest fire plan is illegal (S.F. Chronicle, 7/13/05)
New
rule opens national forests to roads (S.F. Chronicle, 5/5/05)
Bush
administration eases pesticide reviews for endangered species (S.F.
Chronicle, 7/29/04)
House
panel passes measures to alter Endangered Species Act (S.F.
Chronicle, 7/22/05)
U.S.
to open more forests to logging
(S.F. Chronicle, 7/13/04)
Protecting
owls or the logging industry?
(Monterey Herald, 8/1/04)
National
forests fall victim to firefighting (Washington Post, 6/29/04)
Visit
our archives for more links to forest news
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ONGOING
Sequoia
National Monument
Disguised as fire protection, logging
sneaks into the Monument.
Keep
chainsaws out of Giant Sequoia National Monument (10/28/05)
A
life-long activist’s last fight
Parade (01/16/05)
Article about environmental activist Martin Litton and his
efforts to preserve giant sequoias.
Sequoia
National Monument threatened (2/5/03)
Logging
in Sequoia National Forest for fire protection?
(4/15/98 )
Sequoia Preserve bill introduced in Congress
(9/22/97)
The
Healthy Forests Initiative
This plan, primarily a giveaway to the
timber industry, does little to protect the forests and nearby communities
from wildfire.
"Healthy
Forests" Act leaves forests and communities unprotected
(12/15/04)
Act
now to help stop Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative (8/4/03)
Endangered
Species Act
The Fish and Wildlife Service creates
a loophole for wildlife trade in endangered species.
Stop
Pombo's extinction act (4/19/05)
Act
now to stop gutting of Endangered Species Act (9/25/03)
National
Forest Management Act
The Bush administration changes the
rules on protecting national forests and their wildlife safeguards.
Bush
administration cuts heart out of NFMA (3/2/05)
Revisions
to national forest regulations would relax or eliminate forest protections
(5/15/03)
Quincy
Library Group
A pilot program headed in the wrong
direction disguises clearcuts as "firebreaks."
Disastrous "Quincy
Library Group" bill would double logging in three national
forests (7/31/97)
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