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The Peabody West project would reconstruct about nine miles of existing system and non-system roads and expand a permanent wildlife opening to 19 acres

The Lolo National Forest will hold public meetings this month on its Forest Plan revision.

Lawsuits divide groups that collaborated on the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest Plan, but plaintiffs say they just want the law followed.

Montana’s National Parks, Forests, state parks and other public lands are very accessible. There are tens of thousands of miles of open roads and motorized trails putting people at any trailhead, boat launch and over scenic mountain passes. Car and trailer campgrounds, picnic areas and fishing access sites dot our rivers. Even in remote Fergus […] The post If the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t follow the rules, why should we? appeared first on Daily Montanan.

The Gallatin Range, which stretches from Bozeman’s backyard south into Yellowstone National Park, is the most significant piece of wildland of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that lacks significant permanent protection.

WHITLEY CITY — The Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest released a draft environmental assessment for the Jellico Vegetation Management Project on Wednesday, April 24. The project,

The federal agency will spend the rest of this year gathering public input and then take the next couple of years to finalize a new plan.

The previous plan is 25 years old.

An environmental group coalition accuses the U.S. Forest Service of putting federal timber targets ahead of other concerns, including in NC.

Harvesting enough trees to meet federal timber targets nationally is inappropriately taking precedent over ecological considerations when the U.S. Forest Services sets goals for projects in national forests, including in