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• Wyoming: Shoshone National Forest faces beetle budget bust

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  It’s a sad story made even sadder by the fruitless efforts of those trying to stop it. You can’t. You may as well just use the money for actions that will actually do something. Link
  1 day ago

• Trails and Photos in the Santa Monica Mountains

  
  Modern Hiker — Authority: 418
  With the Angeles National Forest still mostly closed off, the Santa Monica Mountains are the place to be this weekend. With some cooler temperatures in the forecast, it’s the perfect time to bundle up (SoCal style) and hit a trail in the mountains. The longest stretch of the Backbone Festival is tomorrow, ...
  3 days ago

• Colorado: San Jauns wilderness push gains momentum

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  Both senators are now on board for an extra 60,000 acres of wilderness. This is easily one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the west, and IMHO the most scenic in Colorado. Link
  5 days ago

• An open space promise: Let’s make it work, finally

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 129
  Two U.S. senators, as this NY Times editorial notes, have introduced legislation to make the Land and Water Conservation Fund work the way it was supposed to when set up decades ago.
  6 days ago

• Free Admission to National Parks

  
  Modern Hiker — Authority: 418
  Secretary Salazar If you’re lucky enough to be able to take time off of work in the middle of the week, you may want to head outdoors … even more so than you usually would. This Wednesday, in honor of Veterans’ Day, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be waiving entrance fees on public recreation ...
  1 week ago

• Get into national parks, forests free Nov. 11

  
  OC Deals — Authority: 488
  To extend a general “thank you” for those who served our country, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior has announced that all public lands managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation will be free of admission charges on Veterans Day, ...
  1 week ago

• Illinois: Shawnee Trail hotline (video)

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  The Shawnee National Forest is a rare gem in the scenery-less Illinois. It’s so far from Chicago that most people just drive up to northern Wisconsin for national forest interaction. A The Shawnee is an equestrain hot spot, and in order to reduce impacts trails have to be closed for a period of time after a heavy ...
  1 week ago

• Night sky over the Beartooth Mountains

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  This was taken in late September 2009 in the Gallatin National Forest.  It was close to a new moon, and the stars were spectacular. I had just arrived at the campground and had the place to myself. With my headlamp, I read on the campground sign, “warning, bear activity in and around this campground is high”. ...
  1 week ago

• Arizona: Lawmaker pushes for National Scenic Area designation for Sedona

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  Link Sedona already is a major draw because of its Red Rocks, New Age healers and streets lined with art shops. But Kirkpatrick said she is pushing the designation primarily to prevent land trades in a 250-square-mile area of the surrounding Coconino National Forest. She also hopes the designation will further ...
  1 week ago

• Roadless Rule in 10th circuit court nears conclusion

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  In a turn of events, the federal government is now arguing in favor of keeping the roadless rule. The state of Wyoming of course is opposed. The 10th circut court decision may be the final ruling on this most important conservation issue. The 9th circuit court has already upheld the rule. Link
  1 week ago

• Montana: Senator Tester betrays wilderness

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  Interesting article by Brian Peck. Of particular concern is the fact that these new wilderness areas would be “WINO”(wilderness in name only). Link
  1 week ago

• Colorado: Mountain bikers oppose Hidden Gems proposal

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  98% of the lower 48 is roaded, trailed and open to bike use. I don’t see what the problem is for the Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association. Link
  1 week ago

• Confessions of an off-road outlaw

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 580
  A hunter who once tore through the woods on his ORV rethinks his ways after he realizes that he’s scaring off wildlife
  1 week ago

• Roadless Forever?

  
  Blue Ridge Outdoors - Outdoor Sports and News — Authority: 132
  New bill could make Roadless Rule permanent
  1 week ago

• Roadless-less

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 580
  Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down Clintons roadless forest rule, which has been mired in lawsuits ever since its controversial birth.
  2 weeks ago

• Minnesota: Interior and Environmental Appropriations bill helps state, national forest

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  The legislation also includes $900,000 for the U.S. Forest Service to purchase the Stony Point property in the Chippewa National Forest and the Wolf Island property in the Superior National Forest. “These are national treasures that should be preserved for future generations to enjoy,” said Oberstar. Link
  2 weeks ago

• Be bear aware

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  Not exactly ethical. “We have one neighbor who is renting a place and only staying for a few months. He wanted to take pictures of a bear, so he deliberately put dog food out on his back porch to bait the bear,” Ross laments. Sure enough a bear came. Link
  2 weeks ago

• Japan’s Lifeless Forests

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 131
  For generations now, japan’s forests have been heavily managed for timber, one result is large stands of single species forests. They may look good, but not much can live there . The outcome, say critics like Mariko Moriyama of the 20,000-member Japan Bear and Forest Association (JBFA), has been the creation of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tester randomly cutting out wilderness acreage in his “wilderness”bill?

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  According to a new article in a Great Falls paper, he is. Tester has been slashing recommended wilderness acreage when mountain bikers complain about a specific trail. In fact, this article points out three instances in which Tester did just that: Link For example, in far southwest Montana’s Sapphire Mountains, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Montana: Tester talks up his wilderness bill (more like a logging bill)

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 136
  I’m not surprised that they are now saying the Rocky Mountain Front wilderness bill likely not be included in the bill due to “time constraints”. The Rocky Mountain Front wilderness plan doesn’t trade away roadless areas for ice and rock wilderness, so it’s going to be ignored. Link
  2 weeks ago

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