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Wildfire fighting capacity curbed by funding cuts, officials say	15.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Darryl Fears The Washington Post Published May 14, 2013 01:49PM MDT The government is facing the possibility of yet another historic wildfire season with significantly fewer funds to pay for firefighters, equipment, fire prevention and recovery as a result of budget cuts from the sequester, officials announced Monday. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said his agency, which is largely responsible for fighting monster fires along with the Interior Department, will try to manage burns with 500 fewer firefighters and 50 fewer engines and by shifting money earmarked... ...
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Wildfire Fighting Capacity Curbed by Funding Cuts, Officials Say	14.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
WASHINGTON — The government is facing the possibility of yet another historic wildfire season with significantly fewer funds to pay for firefighters, equipment, fire prevention and
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Feds: Budget cuts to make wildfire season tougher	13.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
BOISE, Idaho—The U.S. is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said
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Guest Commentary: Forest policy is effective	10.5.2013	Denver Post: Opinion
As fire season bears down, political leaders gathered in Denver this week urge additional action on wildfires.
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Seeking balance in Oregon's timber country	6.5.2013	Current Issue
Can logging towns and old-growth forests both thrive in the Northwest?
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Timber! Forest Service asks states to return cash	3.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing automatic spending cuts as the basis for demanding that dozens of states return $17.
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The gray area: a conversation with artist Renee Couture	30.4.2013	Current Issue
An Oregon artist reinterprets the region's timber wars.
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Northwest Forest Plan timeline	27.4.2013	Current Issue
A brief history of the Northwest Forest Plan
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Bigger fires and evolving threats force changes in the Northwest Forest Plan	27.4.2013	Current Issue
Dynamic forests require flexible management
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Historic Northwest Forest Plan needs a careful overhaul	27.4.2013	Current Issue
The Northwest Forest Plan, no 20 years old, faces pressures new and old, with no easy fix in sight.
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Forest Service braces for cuts	15.4.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
ASPEN —The White River National Forest surrounding Aspen faces some budget uncertainties that could affect such seasonal duties as maintaining trails and patrolling the wilderness,
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Some Earth Firsters celebrate in Idaho two decades later	9.4.2013	Writers on the Range

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Northeast drilling boom threatens forest wildlife	3.4.2013	azcentral.com \| business
PITTSBURGH -- Hawks swoop in and gobble up songbirds. Raccoons feast on nests of eggs they never could have reached before. Salamanders and wildflowers fade away, crowded out by invasive plants that are altering the soil they need to thrive. Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
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Colorado could be receiving bill to repay millions in federal funds	30.3.2013	Durango Herald
DENVER Colorado is among Western states that could be forced to repay millions of dollars in federal funds locked up in the national budget debate.
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Colorado could be forced to repay federal funds	29.3.2013	Denver Post: All Political News
DENVER—Colorado is among Western states that could be forced to repay millions of dollars in federal funds locked up in the national budget debate.
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Agencies brace for summer blazes (Cached)	29.3.2013	Durango Herald
The prospect of a dry, warm summer has officials doing as much as possible to minimize chances of wildfires.They remember too well last year when wildfires burned more than 39,000 acres in Southwest Colorado.
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Much ado about mud	26.3.2013	High Country News Most Recent
Supreme Court vindicates timber industry in logging-road runoff case
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Brazil's supermarkets pledge to reject Amazon meat	26.3.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
BRASILIA, Brazil—A group representing Brazil's supermarkets says its members are pledging to avoid selling meat from cattle raised in the Amazon rainforest.
USFS vs. your ability to sue them	20.3.2013	High Country News Most Recent
A Supreme Court case could set a precedent for suing over forest plans
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Are tree-sitters felons?	14.3.2013	From the Blogs
An Oregon bill would up the punishment for timber protests
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