North Fork Preservation Association » Forest Jobs and Recreation Act http://www.gravel.org News and information about the NFPA and the North Fork of the Flathead River Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:45:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act dead for 2011 http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/16/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-dead-for-2011/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/16/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-dead-for-2011/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:21:50 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=2515 It’s official, Sen. Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” is dead for this year . . .

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act was not included in a House version of the 2012 omnibus bill to fund the federal government that was released Thursday morning, setting off a round of finger-pointing between his office and that of Rep. Denny Rehberg.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/16/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-dead-for-2011/feed/ 0 Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act might get a shot before year-end http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/12/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-might-get-a-shot-before-year-end/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/12/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-might-get-a-shot-before-year-end/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:05:10 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=2500 From today’s Missoulian . . .

Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act may get a last-minute vote before Congress closes out 2011.

But a lot of other Montana-related legislation will probably give the hurly-burly of December’s must-pass congressional action a pass. That includes Sen. Max Baucus’ Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, Rep. Denny Rehberg’s Montana Land Sovereignty Act, and the Flathead Watershed Protection Act that both Baucus and Tester co-sponsored. However, Rehberg may get a vote on a measure to fast-track permitting of a U.S.-Canadian oil pipeline.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/12/12/testers-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-might-get-a-shot-before-year-end/feed/ 0 Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act draws mixed reviews http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/26/sen-jontesters-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-draws-mixed-reviews/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/26/sen-jontesters-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-draws-mixed-reviews/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 15:54:32 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1962 This is a pretty good report on yesterdays’ hearings before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding Sen. Jon Tester’s proposed Forest Jobs and Recreation Act . . .

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., got some unexpected support from potential critics of his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act and doubts from assumed allies during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/26/sen-jontesters-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-draws-mixed-reviews/feed/ 0 Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” gets new Senate hearing http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/25/tester%e2%80%99s-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-gets-new-senate-hearing/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/25/tester%e2%80%99s-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-gets-new-senate-hearing/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 01:35:58 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1947 From an AP article posted in today’s Flathead Beacon . . .

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s bill to increase both logging and wilderness areas in Montana was the focus of another Senate hearing Wednesday as the Democrat hopes to move forward a plan that has already become an issue in his high-profile election challenge from Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington again took testimony on a re-introduced version of a bill Tester first put forward nearly two years ago. Committee members expressed interest in working with Tester to advance a measure that died late last year as part of a last-minute budget bill.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/05/25/tester%e2%80%99s-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-gets-new-senate-hearing/feed/ 0 Tester to take another swing at passing forest bill http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/04/tester-to-take-another-swing-at-passing-forest-bill/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/04/tester-to-take-another-swing-at-passing-forest-bill/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:09:19 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1446 Here’s the Missoulian’s write-up on Sen. Jon Tester’s plans to take another swing at getting his “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” passed this year . . .

Sen. Jon Tester plans to reintroduce his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act this year with no changes, but hopes to bring more Montanans to its support.

“The work doesn’t get done on the far left and it doesn’t get done on the far right,” Tester said during a meeting with the Missoulian editorial board on Monday. “It gets done in the middle…

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/04/tester-to-take-another-swing-at-passing-forest-bill/feed/ 0 Tester plans to try again on “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/03/tester-plans-to-try-again-on-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act/ http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/03/tester-plans-to-try-again-on-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:23:25 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1439 Sen. Jon Tester plans to take another swing at his “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” starting early this year.

The Missoulian has the story . . .

Supporters of Sen. Jon Tester’s logging/wilderness bill hope an earlier start this year will break a quarter-century stall in Montana lands policy.

“I think at the end of this Congress, we all realized that even for a bill that’s broadly supported in the state, how hard it is to get a bill through the congressional calendar,” said Tom France of the National Wildlife Federation, which supported Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. “There’s a sense of disappointment that we ran out of time.”

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2011/01/03/tester-plans-to-try-again-on-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act/feed/ 0 Tester’s forest bill likely dead this year http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/18/testers-forest-bill-likely-dead-this-year/ http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/18/testers-forest-bill-likely-dead-this-year/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:04:46 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1400 Well, it looks like that’s pretty much it for Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” this year.

The Associated Press has the story . . .

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s bill to increase both logging and wilderness areas appears to be dead this Congress after the Senate abandoned a huge catchall spending measure that included it.

Tester’s bill was added to the legislation Tuesday, but Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned the spending measure late Thursday after an outcry from conservatives who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in pet projects known as earmarks.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/18/testers-forest-bill-likely-dead-this-year/feed/ 0 More detail available on Tester’s “Forest Jobs & Recreation Act” http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/15/more-detail-on-testers-forest-jobs-recreation-act/ http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/15/more-detail-on-testers-forest-jobs-recreation-act/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:12:11 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1396 As mentioned yesterday, Sen. Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” has been rolled into the massive, end-of-year, Senate omnibus appropriations bill. There have been some, fairly minor, revisions to the act– nothing substantive. Neither the act’s supporters or opponents seem willing to predict its chances for passage.

]]> http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/15/more-detail-on-testers-forest-jobs-recreation-act/feed/ 0 Tester’s forest bill added to Senate appropriations measure http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/14/testers-forest-bill-added-to-senate-appropriations-measure/ http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/14/testers-forest-bill-added-to-senate-appropriations-measure/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:16:53 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1394 Sen. Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” has been stubbed onto one of those end-of-year Senate appropriations bills. The biggest change from the original proposal appears to be the longer and more obscure title. It is now the “Forest Jobs and Restoration Pilot Initiative.” Today’s Missoulian has the story . . .

A revised version of Sen. Jon Tester’s Montana logging and wilderness initiative has been included in a last-minute omnibus appropriations bill before the U.S. Senate.

Tester spokesman Aaron Murphy said on Tuesday the renamed “Forest Jobs and Restoration Pilot Initiative” is essentially the original version of a bill Tester submitted last year as the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2010/12/14/testers-forest-bill-added-to-senate-appropriations-measure/feed/ 0 Tester discusses setbacks in Forest Jobs and Recreation bill http://www.gravel.org/2010/08/31/tester-discusses-setbacks-in-forest-jobs-and-recreation-bill/ http://www.gravel.org/2010/08/31/tester-discusses-setbacks-in-forest-jobs-and-recreation-bill/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:13:18 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=1263 From today’s Missoulian, here’s a good overview of the current status of Sen. Jon Tester’s proposed Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. Short version: Still stuck in committee because of debate over the logging mandate . . .

The first questioner at Sen. Jon Tester’s Monday public forum in Missoula wanted to know how the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act was coming along.

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Note: See Sen. Tester’s web site for the full text of the current draft of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.

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