Wildlands CPR's Blog

By Bethanie Walder - July 23, 2010    The House Interior and Environmental Appropriations subcommittee approved legislation yesterday to provide Forest Service and other agnecy and environmental funding for fiscal year 2011.  While there are many steps yet to go, we are very happy to report that the subcommittee included $90 million for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative. For more information, read the news directly from Congressman Norm Dicks' office.

By Bethanie Walder - July 22, 2010   On July 20, the Forest Service released their new Climate Change Roadmap, along with a new “scorecard” that will enable the national office to annually rate how each individual national forest is adapting to and mitigating for climate change.

By Sarah Peters - July 22, 2010    Although the use of alcohol at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area was banned several years ago, as highlighted in our report "Six Strategies for Effective Enforcement," it is still apparently a problem.  An article from yesterday's Umpqua Post highlights the issue. 

By Adam Rissien - July 16, 2010   

By Adam Rissien - June 24, 2010    Today the Missoulian reported on damage caused by illegal motorcyclists in an area that the Montana Conservation Corps just finished rehabilitating. I was going post my two cents on this typical behavior, but in reading through the comments, I saw a response that pretty much sums it up: The_Boneshackler said on: June 24, 2010, 9:51 am

By cathy - June 23, 2010   Why should a climate change bill fund natural resource projects in your community? Scroll to the bottom of this article to watch a video to see what some green jobs experts have to say.

By Bethanie Walder - June 23, 2010    For the past several years, Wildlands CPR has been posting the Forest Service’s annual Road Accomplishment Reports (RAR).  The RARs show how many miles of roads are maintained, improved, or decommissioned in any given year and on any given forest.  The RARs also show which funds were used to pay for the work.

By Bethanie Walder - June 22, 2010   On June 11, 2010, the US Department of Agriculture released it’s 2010-2015 strategic plan, including it’s overarching plans for the Forest Service.   Forest Service management was basically addressed in the second of the plans four goals: Ensure our national forest and private working lands are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing our water resources.

By Thomas R Petersen - June 22, 2010    Art and advocacy meld at the Missoula Art Musuem (MAM) with an exhibit of the Limited Collector's Edition of A Road Runs Through It, Wildlands CPR's anthology that includes contributors Annie Proulx, Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge and 25 others.

By Thomas R Petersen - June 16, 2010    The ecological impacts of roads - no matter where they may be, or potentially may be as in this case in the Serengeti - are the same: they split habitat, spread invasive weeds and lead to increased roadkill.  As described in this article by NY Times writer, Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, the Tanzanian government is considering building a road in the northern Serengeti, right through one of the largest animal migrations on the planet: more than a million wildebeests and hundreds of thou