Following are PEER news releases, white papers, surveys and other activities for Forest Service:
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| News Releases |
October 14, 2009 TELLICO RIVER WATERSHED CLOSED TO OFF-ROAD TRAFFIC — Conservationists Applaud U.S. Forest Service Action to Restore Water Quality
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August 3, 2009 FOREST SERVICE ORV PLAN NEAR GRAND CANYON HALTED — ORV Access for Hunter Removals of Carcasses Dealt Setback with Ruling
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July 16, 2009 REWARD OFFERED FOR OHV VANDALS WHO TRASHED MEADOW —
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June 15, 2009 GRAND CANYON THREATENED BY OFF-ROAD VEHICLE PLAN — Groups Protest ORV Penetration into Habitat and Across Archaeological Sites
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April 15, 2009 DEADLY DOMESTIC SHEEP DISEASE THREATENS ENDANGERED SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN — Feds Threatened With Legal Action to Close Grazing Allotments, Remedy Endangered Species Act Violations
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March 31, 2009 OIL & GAS DRILLING LABELED MAJOR THREAT TO EASTERN FORESTS — U.S. Forest Service Flying Blind on Drilling Impacts Yet Still Issues More Permits
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March 11, 2009 GAS DRILLING DIVIDES ANOTHER NATIONAL FOREST — Damage to Endangered Bat Caves and Toxic Pits Plague Monongahela NF
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February 19, 2009 FOREST SERVICE AT SEA ON STATUS OF VAST MINERAL RIGHTS — Wilderness and Experimental Forests in 34 Eastern States Open to Drilling
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September 26, 2008 NEW TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST PROPOSAL LACKS BALANCE, QUIET RECREATION SHORTCHANGED — Hikers, campers, anglers and other forest visitors worry that new Forest Service proposal would lead to more noise, pollution and safety risks from dirt bikes and off-road vehicles
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September 18, 2008 BUSH APPOINTEE BLOCKED FINE OF CONGRESSMAN IN FOREST FIRE — Rep. Brown Notice Intercepted at Post Office on Orders of USDA Undersecretary
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June 4, 2008 OFF-ROAD VEHICLE ROUTE DESIGNATIONS GOING BADLY OFF TRACK — U.S. Senate Hearing Grasping for Solutions to Rising Toll of ORVs on Public Lands
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June 4, 2008 THE CONGRESSMAN AND THE FOREST FIRE: A TALE OF STRING PULLING — Rep. Henry Brown Evades Forest Service Assessment for 4 Years, Penalty Waived
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April 1, 2008 U.S. FOREST SERVICE FIELDING FLEET OF DRONES — Law Enforcement Wants “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” Hovering Above Forests
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February 28, 2008 U.S. FOREST SERVICE DROPS MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING — Avoiding “Additional Disruption and Confusion” Will Keep Biologists in the Forests
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February 21, 2008 FOREST SERVICE OUTSOURCING PROGRAM A FIASCO, GAO FINDS — Scathing Report Rips Firefighting Erosion, Illusory Savings and Law Violations
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January 14, 2008 FOREST SERVICE TO PULL ITS SCIENTISTS AND PLANNERS FROM FIELD — Massive Consolidation of NEPA Functions Will Take Thousands Out of Forests
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December 19, 2007 FOREST SERVICE PROMISES ROAD CLOSURES TO STEM ORV RAVAGES — Conservationists encouraged by USFS first steps to restore water quality in Tellico ORV area
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December 4, 2007 CASH STARVED FOREST SERVICE SPENDS $600,000 TO BUY TASERS — Devices Remain in Boxes Because Rangers Lack Training
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June 28, 2007 FOREST SERVICE MISMANAGEMENT OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES SPURS SUIT THREAT — Sportsmen, conservationists join to protect prized trout habitat in NC and TN
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May 22, 2007 FOREST SERVICE OUTSOURCING PLAN PRODUCES BIG LOSSES — Claimed “On the Books” Savings Swamped by “Off the Books” Costs
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February 1, 2007 NEW FOREST SERVICE CHIEF HAS CHECKERED PAST — Responsible for Largest Whistleblower Retaliation Case in Agency History
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August 31, 2006 FOREST SERVICE CANNOT SUPPORT SAVINGS CLAIMS FOR OUTSOURCING — Independent Audit Casts Doubts on Administration Estimates
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August 3, 2006 FOREST SERVICE LOOKS TO OUTSOURCE ITS “FIRE MILITIA” — Fire-Fighting Capability May be Compromised by Contracting Out Staff Positions
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July 24, 2006 FOREST SERVICE DISREGARDS WARNINGS ON WYOMING LAKE RESORT — Forest Service Overrides EPA Drinking Water Contamination Objections
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June 26, 2006 ATTACKS ON FOREST SERVICE STAFF UP FIVEFOLD IN 2005 — Urban Ills Penetrating Deep into Backwoods as Law Enforcement Presence Shrinks
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March 23, 2006 NATIONAL FORESTS TO ALLOW CORPORATE ADS — Local Restrictions on Liquor and Tobacco Advertising Will Be Preempted
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February 27, 2006 FOREST SERVICE EYES OUTSOURCING TWO-THIRDS OF WORKFORCE — Thousands of Ranger, Biologist, Smoke-Jumper Jobs Out to Bid
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August 10, 2005 NEW FOREST SERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT CHIEF LACKS CREDENTIALS — Agency Manual Hastily Amended; Independent Law Enforcement Program at Risk
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May 5, 2005 FOREST SERVICE TO HIRE “PR” FIRMS TO REPLACE SPOKESPEOPLE — Outsourcing Public Information Is First Step in Renewed Drive
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February 28, 2005 FOREST SERVICE ALLOWED TIMBER INDUSTRY TO REWRITE SIERRA PLAN — Intervention to Stop Collusive Settlement Between Industry and Bush Administration
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February 17, 2005 FOREST SERVICE BECOMING ROGUE AGENCY — Forty-Four Recent Court Rulings Find Environmental Lawbreaking
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January 31, 2005 BUSH "HEALTHY FOREST" PLANS HEMORRHAGE RED INK — Green Alternatives Nixed Even Though Billions Cheaper
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September 20, 2004 FOREST SERVICE FINALLY FINES CONGRESSMAN FOR SETTING FOREST FIRE — Criminal Notice of Violation Hand-Delivered to Rep. Brown's Capitol Office
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September 15, 2004 CONGRESSMAN EXTORTS FOREST SERVICE INTO DROPPING FIRE PENALTY — Rep. Henry Brown Set Forest Fire That Burned Out of Control
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March 18, 2004 FOREST SERVICE DROPPING ENDANGERED SPECIES, RIPARIAN & ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEWS — Forest Service Will Self-Certify Compliance Under New "Streamline" Plan
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September 17, 2003 FOREST SERVICE WHISTLEBLOWER WINS NATIONAL AWARD — Agency Suppresses Records
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September 16, 2003 FOREST SERVICE FIRE-FIGHTING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES AT RISK — Collateral Duty Responders Lost in Outsourcing Plan
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September 11, 2003 OUTSOURCING STRETCHES FOREST SERVICE FIREFIGHTING COSTS TO HALF BILLION OVER BUDGET — Forest Service Lacks Staff to Oversee Contracts
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August 28, 2003 FOREST SERVICE SECRETLY TARGETING SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS FOR MAJOR LOGGING — Changes Forest Plans
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August 4, 2003 FOREST SERVICE OUTSOURCING COSTS GO WAY OVER BUDGET — Project Money Diverted; Forests Told to Stonewall Data Requests
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July 1, 2003 FOREST SERVICE TO BID OUT LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIONS — Group Decries "Rent-a-Ranger"
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June 23, 2003 FOREST SERVICE ADMITS WHISTLEBLOWER RESEARCH — Concedes That Half of Forests Will Never Be Restored
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June 16, 2003 FOREST SERVICE STIFLED ECOLOGICAL HISTORY — Ignores Own Ecological Records
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May 13, 2003 FOREST SERVICE VOWS CULTURAL RESOURCE UPGRADE AT LOS PADRES — Agency Responds to Employee Charges
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October 2, 2002 ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES RUINED IN LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST — Supervisor Retaliated Against Employee Whistleblowers
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August 7, 2002 ABC'S JOHN STOSSEL PEDDLES MORE MISINFORMATION — Conservative Pundit Recycles Lynx Myth
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June 18, 2002 LYNX BIOLOGISTS EXONERATED, MEDIA COVERAGE EXCORIATED — Investigations Mark Final Chapter in Political Catfight
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February 15, 2002 MCINNIS ECO-TERRORISM HEARING DIVERTS ATTENTION FROM REAL PROBLEMS — Gloria Flora Testifies
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February 5, 2002 WASHINGTON TIMES PEDDLES — Stunt called New Form of
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January 22, 2002 LYNX FUR SHOULDN'T FLY — Scientists Vindicated
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August 7, 2001 FOREST RESEARCH SACRIFICED TO POLITICS, SAY USFS SCIENTISTS — Survey of Pacific Northwest Lab Paints Bleak Picture
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August 10, 2000 ATTACKS ON FOREST SERVICE & BLM WORKERS FALL BY HALF — Assaults, Acts of Arson and Threats Down in 1999, Agencies Report
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February 10, 2000 FOREST SERVICE COMPLAINTS IGNORED BY JUSTICE IN NEVADA — Nevada U.S. Attorney Among LeastResponsive in Nation
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| White Papers |
Ruined Relics — Crumbling Cultural Resource Protection (October 2002)
Ruined Relics is an account by former cultural resources staff and volunteers of Los PadresNational Forest documenting the dramatic declineof one of the premiere historical preservationprograms in the nation. more >>
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Stealing the Tongass — Playing by Alaska Rules in the U.S. Forest Service (November 1996)
The institutional complicity of the U.S. Forest Service results in widespread commercial timber theft, massive scaling fraud and illegal exporting of unfinished public logs from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. more >>
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Unindicted Co-Conspirator — Timber Theft and the U.S. Forest Service (March 1996)
The Forest Service has unilaterally disarmed the war against major timber theft and fraud by removing its police from the forest protection beat. Salvage sales, supposedly designed to promote forest health, leave the national forests and the American taxpayers at the mercy of an industry honor system -- an open invitation to steal. more >>
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Business As Usual — A Case Study of Environmental and Fiscal Malpractice on the Eldorado National Forest (February 1996)
The Forest Service has mismanaged the Eldorado National Forest in California and has attempted to cover-up wrongdoings. Agency managers have committed environmental violations costing tens of millions of tax dollars. more >>
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| Other PEER Activities |
USDA lynx investigation report
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