National Forests

Decades Later, Public Land Fund Still a Great Idea

Will Rogers | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Will Rogers

As a former developer myself, I'm not against growth, but there are special places we all love that should be kept open and wild and not be developed.

U.S. Forest Service Warns Hikers To Beware Of Campers Drinking Tecate Beer, Eating Tortillas and Playing Spanish Music

Think Progress | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


The US Forest Service issued and then retracted a Labor Day warning advising hikers to "beware of campers in national forests drinking Tecate beer, ea...

Putting the Keystone Back on Our Wildlands Legacy

Carl Pope | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green


Carl Pope

Vilsack acknowledged for the first time that climate change and fragmentation are a serious threat to the health of our forests.

Obama Moves To Block Building Roads In National Forests

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will defend a 2001 rule imposed by President Bill Clinton that blocked road construction and other...

Road-Building In National Forests Halted For One Year

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of...