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California national monuments pay off, and are intact so far, but not DRECP
Here’s some anecdotal evidence supporting the economic arguments for national monument designation. Two years ago today, President Barack Obama created three new national monuments in the California...
View ArticleMarket solution to the WUI fire problem may be coming
It seems obvious to me that home insurance companies should be basing their rates on differences in risk of fire, and I’ve wondered why that hasn’t been happening more. California seems to be the...
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Is a subdivision surrounded by national forest “reasonable?”
ANILCA provides: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, the Secretary shall provide such access to...
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Why we need coordinated planning for habitat connectivity
The Bridger-Teton National Forest amended its forest plan in 2008 to designate the portion of the “Path of the Pronghorn” migration corridor in Wyoming for special management to protect this historic...
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Zoning in the WUI
Another example of someone doing something right. But it’s not the Forest Service; the Deschutes National Forest was listed as an agency that “either had no comment or did not respond to the notice.”...
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Forest Service promotes wildlife overpass
Despite a national effort (see pp. 29-30) to encourage it, and requirements in the 2012 Planning Rule to provide wildlife habitat connectivity, the Forest Service doesn’t seem to like to assert itself...
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Greater sage-grouse amendment amendment
Three years ago the Forest Service had this to say about the greater sage-grouse: Two US Forest Service Records of Decision and associated land management plan amendments are the culmination of an...
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Recovery from Waldo Canyon: WGA Working Lands Roundtable Presentation by...
The Western Governors’ Association has been having a Working Lands Roundtable with sessions on different topics. I previously posted on a session here. Here is a link to the presentations- they...
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Utah vs. Nevada
In a discussion of “privatization,” Brian Hawthorne suggested here that, “It might be worthwhile discussing our perceived distinctions between what Utah’s HB 148 contemplates vs the “small tract...
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Bark Beetle Epidemic in Calaveras County
The bark beetles started their invasion when I used to live there, in Mark Twain’s famous Calaveras County. Now it looks like it has reached epidemic levels, requiring emergency action, from multiple...
View ArticleForest Service not sued on timber project
I couldn’t find the project files for the Gatton’s Park fuels treatment project in the Upper Mimbres Valley on the Gila National Forest, but it seemed like it has a lot of features that make it a good...
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Mark Twain to eliminate hunting at request of state
Source Of feral hogs that is. In kind of a turnabout from typical conflicts between states and feds, this is a disagreement between the state and counties (and the hog hunting segment of the public)....
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Forest planning for wildlife corridors
The 2012 Planning Rule requires that forest plan revisions address wildlife habitat connectivity. In fact it is one of the “dominant ecological characteristics” that must occur with the “natural range...
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Stewardship contracts – a better tool for the job than a roadless rule?
I wouldn’t have thought that one is a substitute for the other, and maybe this suggests that Utah defined its problem wrong initially. But they’re happy enough with the way their Shared Stewardship...
View ArticleMissoula Forest Collaboration Roundtable
Montana Public Radio collected some interesting perspectives. What collaboration looks like to what some would consider a “far-right politician:” “We were thrilled to have the Rocky Mountain Elk...
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Grand Canyon development proposal resurfaces on the Kaibab
We’ve discussed the use of land exchanges that would facilitate the growth of urban areas by giving them more private land in logical growth areas using the example of Las Vegas. At a different...
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Two Stories from Wyoming: Not Shooting Goats from Helicopters, Plus Potential...
Map from the Governor’s Office via Wyofiles. For those of you who can’t read county names, yes, parts are in Utah and ColoradoFollowing up on the Grand Teton Park aerial goat-shooting story here, it...
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Private land conservation easements benefit national forest wildlife
In 2009, the owner of a golf course in Georgia donated a conservation easement to a non-profit land trust. The easement included roughly 57 acres of primarily bottomland forests and wetlands along...
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Forest planning for wildlife corridors
The 2012 Planning Rule requires that forest plan revisions address wildlife habitat connectivity. In fact it is one of the “dominant ecological characteristics” that must occur with the “natural range...
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Stewardship contracts – a better tool for the job than a roadless rule?
I wouldn’t have thought that one is a substitute for the other, and maybe this suggests that Utah defined its problem wrong initially. But they’re happy enough with the way their Shared Stewardship...
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