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The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on Tuesday narrowly voted to commit resources to an ongoing lawsuit to keep the Tongass National Forest exempt from the 2001 federal Roadless Rule, a move that will put the borough at odds with local Alaska Native entities that are opposing the exemption. The December case, filed by the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the Organized Village of Saxman, Ketchikan Indian Community and 19 other entities, alleges that federal agencies failed to follow pro...

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Pisgah National Forest grows with conservation land near Linville Gorge Wilderness Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times © Courtesy of Jason Johnson The Linville Gorge Wilderness Area is pictured after a light snow in December. The U.S. Forest Service purchased 205 acres from The Conservation Fund for permanent protection adjacent to the gorge. A one-time Christmas tree farm abutting the iconic Linville Gorge in Burke County is now a sprawling, natural playground for white-t...

A conservation group has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over what it said was underestimated impacts to grizzly bears from “widespread illegal road use” in Helena-Lewis

Forest Service allows Mountain Valley Pipeline project to move ahead (FILE) (Source: WDBJ) By Pat Thomas | January 11, 2021 at 1:00 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 1:00 PM ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ/USDA Release) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its decision updating an environmental analysis that allows the construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline on 3.5 miles of the Jefferson National Forest. The USDA Forest Service issued a final Record of Decision that amends the Jefferson N...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic fe...