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FS Reorganization Will Close Leading Research Lab in Minnesota
The unfolding Forest Service reorganization targets important scientific facilities along with ongoing research projects. Current nationwide Forest Service research stations will be consolidated down to the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Colorado, and 75% of agency research facilities — at least 57 — will be closed. With the Northern Research Station in Grand Rapids, Minneso...

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Halverson Article Investigates Use of Roundup in Forests
Excerpts from ‘We are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup’ by Nate Halverson, Mother Jones … I steer my old Toyota Tacoma down a bumpy dirt road to where the Lassen National Forest gives way to private timberland. Lilly rides shotgun. We’d come to this exact spot seven years ago. Lilly, my sharp-eyed border collie, had […]

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Beavers Benefit Bats and Butterflies
Beavers are a true keystone species, so it should come as no surprise that two new studies broaden our understanding of beavers’ beneficial role, not only for aquatic life, but also for airborne creatures like bats and butterflies. Both studies were published by the British Ecological Society. One study shows that beavers’ landscape engineering produces […]

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Nantahala National Forest
Prior to the 1700s, the land encompassed by the Nantahala National Forest was inhabited by the Cherokee people. Nantahala is a Cherokee word meaning “Land of the Noonday Sun,” a reference to the steep landscape where sunlight only reaches the valley floor at midday. After European-Americans settled in the area, large-scale logging operations stripped vast […]

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Tell Your Senators ‘Don’t Dilute the Clean Water Act’
Members of Congress have bowed to corporate lobbyists to undermine our legal victory requiring a pollution permit to dump toxic fire retardant on pristine lands and waterways. First, the only aerial fire retardant manufacturer in the U.S. convinced representatives to introduce legislation that would exempt retardant from the Clean Water Act. Known as the PERMIT […]

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