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by Bethanie Walder 

A few weeks ago I got a demoralizing phone call, highlighting how some people refuse to see things in any colors other than black and white. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2008
CONTACTS: Marnie Criley, Wildlands CPR, 406-543-9551
Scott Brennan, The Wilderness Society, 406-586-1600, ext. 117
Chris Frissell, Pacific Rivers Council, 406-471-3167

Watershed Restoration and Forest Roads Symposium

On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act for 2008 into law. That act contained a provision called the Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative (LRRI) that provided $39.4 million to the Forest Service for road remediation and reclamation.

This essay appears in Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation, edited by George Wuerthner and published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology.

conservationists take the agency to court

Defenders of Wildlife • Sierra Club • The Humane Society of the United
States • National Parks Conservation Association • The Florida
Biodiversity Project • The Wilderness Society • Wildlands CPR

For Immediate Release: December 21, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 20, 2007

CONTACTS: Marnie Criley, Restoration Coordinator, 406-543-9551
Sue Gunn, Washington Representative, 360-754-1520

CONTACTS:
Sue Gunn, Wildlands CPR Washington Representative, 360-754-1520

In the winter of 1995-1996, right on schedule with predicted historical records, the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho experienced a dramatic rain-on-snow event that caused extensive flooding and more than 900 landslides. Old, unstable logging roads were the cause of more than half of the landslides, several of which literally carried homes off the mountains and others which smothered tribal fisheries in the streams below.

A recent Missoula Independent article chronicles a miscarriage of justice which may have wider implications for wildlife, clean water and even public safety on public lands nationwide.