Posts tagged litigation

March 11, 2017 It’s a shame that the folks who are hyperventilating about the rumored “federal lands giveaway” aren’t equally concerned about the fact that …

Lyle Laverty is one of two Forest Service veterans known to be on the Trump Transition team’s list of candidates to be the next Chief …

“Really worthwhile social change is seldom easily accomplished. It takes a long time to build trust on common ground. Our collaborative groups deserve enormous public …

STAYING THE COURSE “I would absolutely encourage anyone to pursue a career in forestry or any other natural resource-based career. In fact, that’s exactly what …

“Categorical Exclusions will over-ride federal environmental laws and exempt logging from any analysis or disclosure of adverse environmental impacts and eliminate public involvement.” Evergreen: How …

There is something unethical about allowing a person or a group that refused to participate in the collaborative planning of the project to file an …

“Conservationists who have joined collaboratives – and that includes me – fear that talk of arbitration could easily morph into talk about watering down the …

When we interviewed Governor Bullock, he went to great lengths to say that keeping Montana’s family owned wood manufacturing businesses in business is a key …

How many projects, like the Spotted Bear Project, which had both a timber harvesting component and a restoration component, have been litigated in Region 1 …

Litigation is not a management strategy. Without injunctive relief, there can be no certainty in our active management plans and the years of hard work our collaborative’s have invested in forest restoration planning will also be lost.