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El Director General de Biodiversidad, Bosques y Desertificación del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, Jorge Marquínez, inaugurará mañana jun

By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com Domestic sheep could graze anew on national forest land in the Wyoming Range where conservationists bought grazing rights to separate them, their pathogens and their impacts from bighorn sheep and their habitat. The Bridger-Teton National Forest is proposing to allow domestic sheep “restocking” by amending its management plan. It is seeking input by June 7 on issues it should address. The proposed change tilts on the fulcrum of a Wyoming outline that sp...

During a recent trip to the McKenzie River area, Congressman Peter DeFazio tells Eugene Weekly that he’s seen more logging trucks in that one day than he’d normally see in a year.  But logging trucks could soon haul away more than the controversial Holiday Farm Fire-related salvage timber. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing forest management actions scattered across a project area of 74,091 acres near McKenzie Bridge, according to sale documents. Called the Flat Country Project, the pro...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) recently announced its finding that three salamander species do not warrant listing as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service’s announcement follows a court-approved settlement agreement in which the Service agreed to make a 12-month finding for the Shasta salamander ( Hydromantes shastae), Samwel salamander ( H. samweli), and Wintu salamander...

Agriculture your username 1 day ago A Ninth Circuit panel reversed a District of Montana decision on Thursday, ruling that the U.S. Forest Service was correct to restrict cattle grazing in the Dry Cottonwood Allotment of Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, after it reduced grazing opportunities to manage the inland native fish habitat.  The plaintiffs, 2-Bar Ranch Limited Partnership, Broken Circle Ranch Company Inc., and R Bar N Ranch LLC, claimed that the Service should not have reduced th...

Jonathan Ratner wasn’t pleased to read a public notice that the Bridger-Teton National Forest is looking to change how it protects wild bighorn sheep from catastrophic diseases spread by domestic sheep. A former employee of the 3.4-million-acre forest, Ratner now watchdogs the Bridger-Teton for Western Watersheds Project, an advocacy group that’s fought public lands livestock grazing for decades. He sees the national forest’s proposed revision to its 1991 Forest Plan as doing the...

Treatments are expected to continue through October. “The majority of herbicide treatments will be spot application to individual invasive plants using truck sprayers, backpack sprayers and UTVs,” said Paula Brooks, a botanist with the Umatilla National Forest. Some broadcast application is also planned along a small subset of roadsides. The work will be implemented under the 2010 decision for the Invasive Species Treatment Project and the Forest Plan amended by the Pacific Northwest ...

Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit Monday in federal District Court against the U.S. Forest Service to halt the Castle Mountains logging and burning project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Natives Ecosystems Council said the project calls for cutting and burning trees on 22,500 acres and bulldozing 45.1 miles of logging roads. Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, said the forest service had ignored serio...

Sequoia & Sierra National Forest Plan Revision Update Published: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 12:31 February 24, 2021 - The USDA Forest Service provides an update on the Sequoia & Sierra Forest Plan Revision. It’s been a while since our last message about the Sequoia & Sierra Forest Plan Revision effort, but our work hasn’t stopped. Its time for an update on our progress.  This past year introduced overwhelming challenges to communities in and around the Sequoia and Sierra National F...