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Bad Magic for Forest NMFs
A federal judge ruled last week that 24 timber sales in Oregon cannot go forward until the federal government ensures that they will not harm fish protected by the Endangered Species Act. The ruling, which came in a lawsuit filed in January by the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund on behalf of several fishing and enviro […]
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Mr. Right, Meet Mr. Left
GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) said yesterday that Republicans “have to do a lot more than they are doing today on the environment.” During a visit to Seattle, he decried the $5 billion maintenance shortfall for national parks and challenged GOP congressional leaders to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which […]
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Where Some See Profits, Others Sea Turtles
The heads of five prominent environmental groups accused the Clinton administration yesterday of abandoning environmental concerns as it prepares for the upcoming World Trade Organization meeting, to begin in Seattle in late November. The groups — including the National Wildlife Federation and Friends of the Earth — all claim to support global trade, but they […]
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Timber! Chainsaw-Happy Policy to be Cut Down
In a major shift, the ecological health of national forests would be given precedence over logging and other commercial uses of the forestland in regulations proposed yesterday by the Clinton administration. The proposed rules would likely lock in or reduce the relatively low logging levels of recent years, down significantly from the astronomical logging levels […]
