Oct 25 2011
Here’s some pretty good commentary by Sarah Gilman of the High Country News concerning last Friday’s resurrection of the “roadless rule” . . . One of the last decades’ most scintillating (that is, in the headachey confusing sense…) enviro-legal ping-pong matches may finally be drawing to a close. On Friday, a three-judge panel at the [...]
Oct 25 2011
After 10 years of squabbling, the “roadless rule” is back in force. From today’s Missoulian . . . A decade of uncertainty over managing public roadless lands may have cleared with last Friday’s federal appeals court ruling. A three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that a 2001 rule governing [...]
Aug 09 2009
Here’s an interesting article in today’s Missoulian discussing the renewed debate over designation and expansion of wilderness areas . . . For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the [...]
May 30 2009
I’ve you’ve lost track of the administrative and legal status of the infamous national forest “roadless rule,” you’re not alone. The Obama administration has effectively reinstated it — sort of — for a year while they figure things out. Here’s the lede from the Associated Press article as published in yesterday’s online Flathead Beacon . [...]
