"High in Yellowstone, a Foundational Tree Falters"
"YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – If you've hiked in the Northern Rockies above 9,000 feet, you've hiked among a whitebark pine forest."
Source: Daily Climate, 10/08/2014
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17 J-Groups Join SEJ in Letter on Wildlands Photo Regs
Eighteen journalism, photography, and First Amendment groups on October 1, 2014, wrote U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell opposing the proposal to finalize a directive requiring permits for "commercial filming" in Forest Service Wilderness areas. Tidwell has already said the USFS does not want to restrict journalism on wilderness lands, but the groups seek changes to regulatory language that would make this clear. SEJ is one of the groups.
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"In Alaska, a Battle to Keep Trees, or an Industry, Standing"
"The Tongass National Forest, a panoply of snow-dusted peaks and braided rivers, slender fjords and more than 5,000 islands draped over a stretch of Pacific coastline, is widely viewed as one of America’s great natural treasures. Under pressure from environmentalists, the Obama administration pledged four years ago to phase out logging of virgin woodlands here."
Source: NY Times, 09/29/2014
SEJ FOI Chair Talks to Forest Service Chief Tidwell
After proposing a directive that seemed to require permits and fees for journalists working in U.S. Forest Service wilderness lands, the USFS announced that it had never intended the restrictions to apply to journalists. Tim Wheeler, chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Freedom of Information Task Force, talked with USFS Chief TomTidwell to clarify the USFS position. Here's his report.
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"Forest Service Says Media Doesn't Need Permit"
"SEATTLE - Faced with increasing criticism of a proposal that would restrict media filming in wilderness areas, the head of the U.S. Forest Service said late Thursday that the rule is not intended to apply to news-gathering activities."
Source: AP, 09/26/2014
"Brazil Refuses To Join Pledge To End Deforestation"
"Brazil has refused to sign up to a pact setting a deadline for ending deforestation entirely by 2030."
Source: BBC News, 09/25/2014
1st Amendment Alarm: USFS Says Media Need Photo Permit in Wilderness
"The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 09/25/2014
Forest Service Seeks To Limit Journalists' Access to Wilderness Lands
The U.S. Forest Service is seeking to harden rules that would require a journalist to get a permit and pay a fee of up to $1,500 in order to report inside a federal wilderness. [Update -- 9/25/14: Forest Service Chief Tidwell says media don't need permit]
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"U.S. Joins Other Nations in Deforestation Accord At UN Summit"
"Moving to halt a powerful contributor to climate change, the United States has joined more than 110 corporations, civil society groups and governments to launch a global initiative to reduce deforestation sharply over the next 15 years, with the goal of eliminating the practice by 2030."
Source: LA Times, 09/24/2014
"Northern California Wildfire Still Growing"
"An expanding wildfire in Northern California has reached 82,018 acres, or more than 128 square miles, as of Sunday morning, California fire officials said."
Source: USA TODAY, 09/22/2014
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