An environmental group demanding that Nestle stop pumping millions of gallons of water from a California creek failed to persuade a federal judge that the government should disclose records related to the Swiss company’s bottled water operations.
Read moreJust two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.
Read moreQuoting Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax,” the Fourth Circuit spoke for the trees Thursday by scrapping a key federal permit for a planned section of a natural gas pipeline crossing 21 miles of national forest in Virginia, including a section of the Appalachian Trail.
Read moreThe Idaho Conservation League claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the Kilgore Exploration Project, a five-year mining project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, would hurt “sensitive species” including grizzly bear, whitebark pine, spotted frog and cutthroat trout.
Read moreA plan to round up nearly 1,000 wild horses from a national forest in California and sell them for slaughter would betray a decades-old federal policy and violate multiple state and federal laws, animal rights advocates claim in a new federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreCascadia Wildlands brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service for approving the Crystal Clear Restoration Project: an 11,700-acre logging sale on Mt. Hood, which includes nearly 4,000 acres of old-growth forest that provides habitat for endangered species.
Read moreA coterie of federal, state and local law enforcement officials, forest managers and scientists unveiled the results of their efforts to combat the environmental degradation associated with marijuana grows on public lands in California Tuesday.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service granted Nestle a 3-year permit to continue bottling water from a source in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles.
Read moreA Virginia State Senator sued the National Forest Service Wednesday claiming officials are unlawfully blocking access to blocking access to a road where a group of protesters are demonstrating against a gas pipeline project.
Read moreA federal judge in Arizona ruled wildlife managers have not done enough to protect a subspecies of wolf endemic to the American Southwest.
Read moreSequoia Forestkeeper and Earth Island Institute brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday, challenging logging of 1,250 acres in Giant Sequoia National Monument and 3,500 acres in Sequoia National Forest.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service hurt threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead by approving 23 water diversions for irrigation, logging, mining and other uses in the Sawtooth National Forest, the Idaho Conservation League claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service faces a federal complaint in Oregon for reauthorizing livestock grazing on 44,000 acres of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, home to protected species, including the extremely rare carnation-like plant called Spalding’s catchfly.
Read moreA shuttle company operating in the scenic Sabino Canyon in Tucson, Ariz. claimed in court on Friday that the U.S. Forest Service arbitrarily disqualified it from operating trams in the canyon.
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Battling wildfires is sapping the U.S. Forest Service of 50 percent of its funding and threatening its ability to fight wildfires in the future, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works heard Wednesday.
Read moreOregon environmentalists continued their battle Monday against a project that they might be expected to support – mountain biking trails that would put the grassy slopes around Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood to work in the summer.
Read moreEnvironmentalists claim in court the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a revised permit to allow feeding of wild elk in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest is endangering the herd and elevating its risk of getting and spreading a chronic wasting disease.
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