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Red Moon Over Glacier
The Crazies
Montana: Oldest pine tree in Bitterroot National Forest burns down
A seedling during the European Crusades to the Holy Land and already a mature tree when Columbus discovered America, the Alta Pine was culturally significant to Salish Indians, whose ancestors marked it 500 years ago while establishing a trail through the area.
Arizona: Off-highway vehicles need rules to preserve forests
What will change is unmanaged cross-country motorized travel off designated roads and trails. This change is critical so that we and future generations can enjoy, in our own way, these public lands.
California: Fire grows slowly in Kings Canyon National Park
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer delivers great DNC speech (video)
Olbermann ” Grand Slam” (video)
Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech (video)
From the people that brought you the Roadless Initiative, folks. It’s been a long eight years for conservationists, no doubt. Let’s hope we can win this one and avoid “more of the same”.
Clinton had the political line of the year with this one:
It makes perfect sense that Bush and McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities because these days they are awfully hard to tell apart.
Montana: Suspicions in the Swan Valley
The Flathead National Forest released an Environmental Assessment (EA) last Friday for the proposed “Hemlock Elk Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Project.” The project aims to reduce “hazardous fuels” on federal land in a part of the valley that is heavily checkerboarded with Plum Creek land, while providing wood for the area’s timber cutters and mills. But some critics are skeptical of the proposal.
Pennsylvania: Vandals spill oil in Allegheny National Forest
The Allegheny National Forest is coordinating with several other federal, state, and local agencies, including the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the regulatory agency in charge of cleanup, to investigate a major oil spill in McKean County that impacted an area on the Forest.



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