Letter to BLM, USDA – Scope of environmental review for Federal Lands, Minnesota
DESCRIPTION: PEER submitted a letter covering past USFS employee critical feedback, treaty rights impacting NEPA scope, and economic issues related to a USFS and BLM proposal to remove a large amount of BLM-controlled mineral resources under the Superior National Forest from leasing for ...
Let’s Resist the Temptation to “Improve” Wilderness
In designated wilderness areas, management means protecting the resource and natural processes, sometimes this means less access instead of more ...
PEERMail | Troubled Timber Sales at Tongass
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is suing the U.S. Forest Service to produce an audit of staggering monetary losses from past timber sales in the Tongass National Forest ...
COMMENTARY | Another Roll-Back That the Oil and Gas Industry Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
The Forest Service hopes to pass a new rule making it easier for private companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. National Forests ...
COMMENTARY | National Forests and COVID-19. What’s Happening?
National Forests receive less attention than parks during COVID-19, but overcrowding, lack of resources, and risk to gateway communities are the same ...