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Astronaut's Surprising Pick For Next Space Crew Mascot

AP | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Video, Nasa, Joseph Acaba, Iss, Space Station, Space Mascot, International Space Station, Smokey Bear, Astronaut, Forest Service, Science News

STAR CITY, Russia — An American astronaut heading to the International Space Station has chosen Smokey Bear as his crew's mascot. NASA astronau...

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UPDATE: Forest Service Unleashes Sawmills To Take On Pine Beetle

Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Pine Beetle Lumber, Colorado Forests, Dead Trees, Pine-Beetle-Epidemic, Pine Beetle Timber, Colorado-Pine-Beetles, US Forest Service, Forest Service, Denver News

What would you do with more than 150,000 piles of dead trees? The Forest Service Is struggling with that exact question as federal contractors beef u...

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Colorado's Wood Problem Compounded By Crippling Contracts

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Pine Beetle Lumber, Colorado Forests, Dead Trees, Pine-Beetle-Epidemic, Pine Beetle Timber, Colorado-Pine-Beetles, US Forest Service, Forest Service, Denver News

What would you do with more than 150,000 piles of dead trees? The Forest Service Is struggling with that exact question as federal contractors beef u...

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Forest Service Seeks More Control

AP | JEFF BARNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Climate Change, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Service Lawsuits, US Forest Service, Nature, Forest Service, Green News

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Hoping to break a legal logjam that has stymied logging as well as ecosystem restoration, the U.S. Forest Service said Thurs...

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Lawsuit Accuses Forest Service Of Ducking Its Own Rules On Off-Road Vehicles

Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, ATV's, Forest Service, Offroad Vehicles, Denver News

Few things get Coloradans as riled up as access to our public lands. The debate tends to rage on numerous fronts, but by far the most contentious batt...

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Forest Service Looks To Timber Industry To Help Quell Bark Beetle Problem

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bark Beetles, Timber Industry, Forest Service, Bill Ritter, Denver News

DILLON, Colo. — A strong wood-products industry is key to removing thousands of dead, bark beetle-infested trees that threaten to topple onto ro...

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Feds Lack Emergency Plans For Flooding

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arkansas Flood Deaths, Floods, Forest Service, Arkansas Flooding, Tom Vilsack, Flood, Flooding, Arkansas Flooding Deaths, Weather, Forest Service Flood, Arkansas Flood, Forest Service Flood Plan, Green News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The U.S. Forest Service acknowledges in a new report that the agency had no warning plan in place the night 20 people died i...

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Massive Aspen Die-Off on the Wane

David Frey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspens, Drought, Climate Change, Western Slope, Aspen-Trees, Sudden Aspen Decline, Forest Service, Denver News

Things are looking up for the iconic tree of the West. Recent research shows sudden aspen decline is on the wane. Some areas where the trees have died, though, may never see aspens again.

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Pine Beetle Epidemic In Colorado May Be Ending

The Denver Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Department of Wildlife, Colorado, Forest Service, Pine Beetles, Denver News

SILVERTHORNE -- The mountain pine beetles that have ravaged about 3 million acres of Colorado and southern Wyoming forests may be exhausting their pri...

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Forest Service: Crested Butte Snodgrass Expansion A No Go

firsttracksonline.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Buck, Expansion, Crested Butte, Ski Towns, Snodgrass, Forest Service, Colorado, Skiing, Denver News

Mt. Crested Butte, CO - The U.S. Forest Service has notified Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) by letter that it is denying the Colorado ski resort...

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Stimulus Plan In 1930's Created Colorado Ski Industry

Colorado Springs Gazette, CO | DAVE PHILIPPS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Ski Industry, Civilian Conservation Corps, WInter Park, Forest Service, Ski Industry, Stimulus, Monarch Pass, Wolf Creek, Denver News

Monarch, Winter Park and Wolf Creek ski areas all celebrate 70 years of skiing this winter and they all owe their start, in part, to an unexpected ben...

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Wyoming forests prep for cuts; money goes to beetles

The Aspen Times | Matt Joyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shoshone, Rocky Mountains, White River, Pine Beetle, Wyoming, Roosevelt, National Parks, Routt, Forest Service, Colorado, Arapahoe, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. Some national forests in Wyoming are trimming their budgets, including possible campground closures, as the regional U.S. Forest Servic...

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Vail Resorts to be involved in 3-year Hayman restoration project

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restoration, Wildfire, National Forest Foundation, Forest, Service, Hayman Fire, Fire, Vail, Hayman, Colorado, Forest Service, Home News

A three-year project to restore Colorado lands scorched by the 2002 Hayman fire, with Vail Resorts Inc. and other private and public groups involved, ...

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Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary Starts Slowly, But Gets Better

Levi Novey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grand Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Stephen Mather, Documentaries, Dayton Duncan, Everglades National Park, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Roosevelt, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Lincoln Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, History, Tourism, Martin Luther King, Ken Burns, John Muir, National Park Service, Yosemite, Documentary, Mark Twain, PBS Documentaries, National Parks, Forest Service, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Civilian Conservation Corps, Green Jobs, Green News

I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.

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Forest Service Apologizes For Profiling Hispanic Campers As Pot Growers

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Forest Service Marijauna, Forest Service Hispanics, Marijuana, Forest Service, Green News

DENVER — The U.S. Forest Service has apologized for suggesting that campers who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music may be a...

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California Residents Return To Survey Fire Damage

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Humidifity, California, Jennifer Sanchez, Wildfires, Homeowners, Weather, Forest Service, Extreme Weather, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

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SHOCK: Government Discovers Double-Sided Photocopying, Saves $102 Million

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Forest Service, Department of Defense, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, Goverment Spending, President Obama, Photocopying, Business News

With the budget deficit soaring toward $2 trillion, the Department of Justice has figured out how to play its part: double-sided photocopying. More T...

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Cleaning Up Our Forests

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wildfires, Forests, Tom Vilsack, Environment, Forest Service, Roadless Areas, Thomas Vilsack, Green News

We've spent $2 billion since 2000 without reducing the number of forest acres burned, homes destroyed, or firefighters killed. President Obama's new forest chief is badly needed.

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Sorry, Congress: Change Can't Wait

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roadless Rule, Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Vilsack, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Forest Service, Green News

It clear that the Obama administration doesn't intend to let business as usual at the Forest Service threaten our remaining pristine public forests.

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Forest Service Starts Spending Stimulus Funds

Green Inc. | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Forest Service, Green Stimulus, Economy, Green News

More agencies are starting to spend their stimulus money. The Forest Service is spending on brush-clearing. They're not using my favorite method -- go...

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Bush Administration's Logging Rule Reinstated

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Rey, Forest Service, Bush Environment, Logging, Deforestation, Green News

Matt Kenna, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, said he didn't think the portion of the opinion dealing with standing was broad eno...

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Bush Crony's Law To Turn Forests Into Housing Subdivisions

The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Rey, Midnight Regulations, Forest Service, Montana, Bush Administration, Corporate Handouts, Deforestation, Timber Lobbyist, Plum Creek, Missoula, Green News

LOS ANGELES -- The Bush administration appears ready to push through a change in Forest Service agreements that would make it far easier for mountain ...

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