Missoula 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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Where should fire suppression be a “fact of life?”
Sharon referred to “where fire suppression is a fact of life.” I referred to the planning question of identifying where those areas are. It seems to me that would be either where fires won’t ever...
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RVCC Report on Good Neighbor Authority
Here is a link to a report by Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC) on the use of Good Neighbor Authority- extensive and comprehensive. There’s a section on key findings that’s a good...
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Large landscape connectivity – could the Forest Service be a leader?
I watched a webinar provided by the Center for Large Landscape Conservation titled “Legal Protections for Large Landscape Conservation,” part of which focused on “Habitat Connectivity and the U. S....
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New CEQ Guidance on Habitat Connectivity
Cascade Forest Conservancy On March 21, the Council on Environmental Quality provided “Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Ecological Connectivity and Wildlife Corridors” to federal...
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The Forest Service role in fire adapting communities
https://planningforhazards.com/wildland-urban-interface-code-wui-code It’s rare when I run across reporting about the Forest Service taking an official position on development of private land. Yet the...
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New available science for wildlife connectivity
National Parks Conservation Association Federal lands are separated by highways all over the west. Those highways are a barrier to many species of wildlife, including species listed under the...
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