Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted: 3:23 PM- CEDAR CITY-- Off-roaders no longer will be able to stray from the beaten path under newly proposed guidelines for Dixie National Forest.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
If we hadn't been already, certainly now we've been put on notice that this fire season could be a bad one. The Big Horn Fire above Mt. Baldy Village was already the second wildfire of the spring in the Angeles National Forest - and it's not even Memorial Day yet.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
CEDAR CITY - Off-roaders no longer would be able to stray from the beaten path under newly proposed guidelines for Dixie National Forest.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Forest Service lacks a clear legal mandate and the financial ability to protect thousands of historic sites and buildings on national forest lands from development, vandalism and other threats, a prominent preservation group says.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
A GROUP of Birmingham schoolchildren have been learning how to become more environmentally friendly in a trip to the National Forest.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Thousands of Eagle Lake rainbow trout will be planted into Lake Davis near Portola during the Lake Davis Trout Restocking Celebration on May 17. This event is co-hosted by the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and the Plumas National Forest and is part of a program to return Lake Davis to its status as a high-quality trout fishery.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
[JURIST] The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overruled a lower court order denying an injunction against a US Forest Service plan to allow commercial logging in the Plumas National Forest in California. The Forest Service had argued that commercial logging would help pay for forest maintenance that would reduce the risk of fires, but the court ruled that the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest plans to perform a prescribed burn today near Ray's Valley in Spanish Fork Canyon, if weather permits. Officials expect the burn to treat 2,000 acres and affect mostly aspen, Gambel oak and spruce trees.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A 420-acre forest fire burning in the Angeles National Forest near Mount Baldy since Tuesday was 60 percent contained today, officials said.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest plans to perform a prescribed burn today near Ray's Valley in Spanish Fork Canyon, if weather permits.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
By Gzedit A PROPOSAL before Congress would designate another 47,000 acres of the Monongahela National Forest with special "wilderness" protection. The different areas have been researched, adjusted, subject to public comment and negotiation.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A Navy fighter jet has been blamed for starting a large Florida forest fire when its bomb missed a target, officials said.About 250 acres of woodland and swamp in the Ocala National Forest burned Tuesday after the F/A-18 Super Hornet dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb that hit a mile from its target, officials at Jacksonville Naval Air Station said.The incident is under investigation,...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Venture into the wilds of Pisgah National Forest in the western part of the state for the weekend and perfect your rock-climbing skills on Looking Glass Rock.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In a reversal of the Bush Administration's attempt to accelerate logging for profit in the Sierra Nevada's national forests, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the U.S. Forest Service likely violated long-standing federal environmental laws when revising the Sierra Nevada Framework, a management plan for all eleven national forests in eastern California....
Daily News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A fire that has scorched 340 acres in the Angeles National Forest near Mount Baldy since Tuesday was 25 percent contained today, officials said.
