Bush administration assault on forest
• Earth warming at faster pace, say experts (12/18/03) • National parks must revive snowmobile ban (12/16/03) • Administration axes forest safeguard (12/04/03) • Forest legislation goes to Bush's desk (11/22/03) • Deal struck on forest-thinning plan (11/20/03) • Fire burns hole in anti-government sentiment (11/02/03) • Partisan squabbles threaten to burn forests bill (11/07/03) • New forestry bill has enviromentalists worried (11/03/03) • Feinstein logging deal compromises California's forests (10/31/03) • California officials warned of 'tinder box' (10/31/03) • Fires taking heavy toll wildlife, domestic animals (10/30/03) • Fires fuel passage of Senate bill to strip undergrowth (10/30/03) • "Fire Damage"-Washington Post Editorial (10/29/03) • Congress feels heat on logging proposals (10/28/03) • Feinstein brokers compromise on so-called “Healthy Forests” legislation (10/4/03) • Bush pushes forest initiative Trip to Oregon also includes re-election fund-raising events (8/22/03) • S.F. Chronicle editorial: Loving Our Forests to Death– Behind the smoke of Bush's forest plan (8/22/03) • SF Chronicle editorial: White House guts roadless rule (6/16/03) • Bush plans to relax roadless rule (6/10/03) • White House removes logging hurdles (6/2/03) • House OK's Bush 'Healthy Forests' plan (5/21/03) • Investigation finds forest projects not seriously delayed by appeals (5/14/03) • Forest Service bars mass political emails (4/29/03) • Push for more logging in the Sierra to curb fires (4/23/03) • Lawsuits, not lawmakers, make policy (4/19/03)
General forest news • Forest Service shifts email plan (12/18/03) • Sierra Pacific development plan challenged (12/16/03) • Scientists link tree rings to famed violins (12/08/03) • Climate change laid to humans (12/04/03) • White House may loosen limits on mercury (12/03/03) • Kremlin threatens to reject Kyoto pact (12/03/03) • Global warming threatens ski resorts (12/2/03) • Sweeping forest agreement reached in Canada (12/01/03) • Rancher to lead resources agency (11/22/03) • Salmon kill linked to level of Klamath (11/19/03) • Renewed concern about arsenic-treated lumber (11/14/03) • Resources agency's chief says it will close (11/13/03) • Tahoe's Martis Valley - paradise lost? (11/10/03) • Global warming likely to hit state hard(11/08/03) • Ban on arsenic-treated wood is voted down(11/04/03) • Suit tests management of wilderness by BLM (11/04/03) • Fire protection fee to hit state property owners (10/28/03) • Made to Burn: Nature gets its way in California (10/28/03) • Senate panel OKs Leavitt nomination (10/16/03) • Davis' final bills aid environment (10/21/03) • Presidio trees to be removed to save natives (10/8/03) • Breakthrough treatment for oak death (10/3/03) • Scientists close to cloning 4,768-year-old tree (10/2/03) • State official deplores U.S. forest management (9/9/03) • Crews gain on fires but fear flareups (9/5/03) • Progress made against southern California wildfire (9/7/03) • Environmental groups plan lawsuit over spotted owl (9/3/03) • Humboldt locals against Bush fire plan (8/26/03) • Forest service exhausts fire funds (8/5/03) • San Diego needs trees (7/9/03) • Taking steps to clone world's oldest tree (posted 6/18/03) • Over 600 waterways in state on EPA list (posted 6/10/03) • Outdoors industry makes stand for wilderness (posted 6/9/03) • Bush administration allows Clinton roadless rule to stand (posted 6/5/03) • S.F. Chronicle editorial: Another way to save heritage trees (5/30/03) • Sawmill replaces treadmill (4/9/03)
Pacific Lumber logging • D.A. expands suit against Pacific Lumber (5/29/03) • Judge strikes down Pacific Lumber's 100-year logging plan (5/21/03) • D.A. who sued Pacific Lumber faces recall (4/4/03)
General environmental news
• Governor OKs plan for big jump in park fees (12/31/03) • Why we need the Endangered Species Act (12/23/03) • Governor puts rules on hold, raises fears (11/19/03) • State EPA pick critical of Bush(11/14/03) • Gov.-elect's EPA choices both anger, thrill activists (11/13/03) • Residents like healthy oceans and beaches, poll finds (11/13/03) • EPA drops probes of polluting plants (11/06/03) • Senate OKs Utah governor as chief of EPA (10/29/03) • California joins greenhouse-gas suit against EPA(10/24/03) • Utah land deal may haunt EPA vote (10/27/03) • Game warden fights lonely battle against reptile rustlers (10/9/03) • Democrats block EPA vote (10/2/03) • Jeff Mendelsohn: Recycling crusader (9/17/03) • Yuroks fear Klamath River water grabs (9/2/03) • Fires keep growing in Diablo Range (8/29/03) • EPA car emissions stance could obstruct state greenhouse gas law (8/29/03) • Bill would ban ocean salmon farms, gene-altered fish (8/27/03) • Salmon Gate scandal hounds Bush tour (8/26/03) • S.F. Chronicle editorial: How Bush can conserve wildlands (8/14/03) • Utah governor tapped for EPA post (8/12/03) • Environment focus of Bush visit to West (8/12/03) • Wildfire fears fuel controversial fix (8/11/03) • New rules coming for Mt. Shasta (8/6/03) • Did Bush scientist kill Kalamath salmon? (8/6/03) • Half of roadless rule judge's assets in oil and gas, ethics groups say (8/5/03) • Privatizing of parks jobs panned (7/30/03) • Senate rejects bill on fuel economy (7/30/03) • Ozone hole's growth rate slows down (7/30/03) • SF Chronicle editorial: Control global warming (7/29/03) • White House issues plan to study global warming (7/25/03) • Yuroks protest Klamath water plan (7/22/03) • No House ban on snowmobiles (7/17/03) • Klamath ruling pleases salmon's allies (7/18/03) • Park Service archaeologists' jobs on budget block (7/16/03) • House bars funding for U.N. agency (7/16/03) • Some wildlife thrives in Bay Area (7/13/03) • Californians worry about air pollution, but don't blame themselves (7/10/03) • Bush attacked on the environment (6/27/03) • Congressmen feuding over Klamath River (6/24/03) • White House rewrites EPA report (6/23/03) • S.F. Chronicle editorial: No limit on wilderness (6/5/03) • Feds review threatened status of spotted owl and marbled murrelet • S.F. Chronicle editorial: Rollbacks and rollovers — the assault on California's environment (4/20/03) • Goldman Prize honors environmental crusaders (4/14/03) • San Francisco Chronicle Editorial on Goldman recipients (4/14/03) • Voice of the West: Environmental writer Marc Reisner's fervent, articulate brand of activism will be sorely missed (3/3/03)
Jackson Forest • Appeals court extends Jackson logging ban (7/13/03) • Logger disappointed in ruling (7/23/03) • Oakland Tribune writes about Forests Forever's work on Jackson Forest (4/9/03)
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