Tag Archives: Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest

News bites from here and there

February 19, 2016Commentary, Environmental Issues, NewsBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, energy leasesnfpa

Debo Powers passed along these interesting items from our corner of the country . . .

Here is a blog from Sally Cathey, MWA field director for southwest Montana, calling for public comments on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forest Plan.

Keep the Quiet

And here is an article about a nonviolent protest that really worked! It reminds me of how John Frederick bought stock in a Canadian mine in the North Fork and went to the stockholder’s meeting to speak against the mine. This is creativity in action!

Auction of Utah oil & gas leases spurs author Terry Tempest Williams to (legally) buy lease

Judge tosses lawsuit over Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forest Plan

July 23, 2013Environmental Issues, NewsBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Forest Plan revisionnfpa

The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest completed their most recent Forest Plan in 2009 (the Flathead Forest is in the early stages of their own). They got sued because the plan included an area of recommended wilderness which would be closed to mechanical recreation. The judge rejected the suit . . .

A federal judge on Monday rejected a challenge to a U.S. Forest Service plan to bar motorized and mechanized vehicles in 322,000 acres of recommended wilderness areas in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

Twenty-two plaintiffs sued the Forest Service over its 2009 plan to ban the use of snowmobiles, off-road vehicles and mountain bikes in certain parts of the southwestern Montana forest until Congress decides whether they should become permanent wilderness areas.

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