PEERMail | Troubled Timber Sales at Tongass
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Tim Whitehouse | October 15, 2020
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
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Chandra Rosenthal | September 16, 2020
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?
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Tim Whitehouse | June 12, 2020
National Forests receive less attention than parks during COVID-19, but overcrowding, lack of resources, and risk to gateway communities are the same ...
Jeff DeBonis: PEER Origin Story
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PEER | April 11, 2018
As a timber sale planner on Oregon’s Willamette National Forest in the late 1980s, Jeff came to the conclusion that the Forest Service was over-logging which would lead to the type of eco-degradation he had seen in Central America in the Peace Corps. He co-founded PEER ...
Park Service to Let Indians Remove Plants and Minerals
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PEER | July 20, 2011
Abrupt Reversal of Conservation Mandate Raises Legal and Management Questions ...
