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For more than a decade, Congress has barred the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from spending appropriated funds to reorganize the department without the approval of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and since 2020 it has imposed the same requirement on the Forest Service specifically. This administration pressed ahead anyway, arguing that because the committee-ap...

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Here at FSEEE, we are deeply concerned by the Forest Service’s final revisions to 36 CFR 218—published October 13, 2026—which sharply curtail the public’s voice in managing its own lands.  Comment periods shrink to 15 days for Environmental Assessments and 30 days for Environmental Impact Statements. Objection periods fall from 45 days to just 10 […]

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The 2001 Roadless Conservation Area Rule has protected many valuable national forest lands for twenty-five years.  Thank you to everyone who submitted comments in defense of our cherished legacy! At FSEEE we have been busy countering the efforts to undo this protection and to open these areas to extraction and development.  Here is a tally […]

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To submit your comments on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule, please go to: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/11/2026-18648/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation#open-comment Comments are due 10/06/2026 at 11:59 pm EST. We have heard of people not being able to submit Roadless Rule comments.  This is likely due to people accessing the original Feder...

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Judge sets firm deadline for compliance with Endangered Species Act. Just a couple of hours ago, the federal judge ruled in FSEEE’s lawsuit against the Forest Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agencies’ failure to properly analyze aerial fire retardant heavy metals in their Endangered Species Act […]

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