AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Eco-fraud? (Scan).(Brief Article)
From the January 2002 CEI Update:
An unmistakable whiff of scandal is in the air following revelations that seven members of an inter-agency task force (with representatives from the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and several state wildlife departments), established in 1999 to determine the prevalence and range of a threatened cat called the Canadian lynx, planted bogus samples of the animal's fur in three Western national forests, essentially trying to pass off hairs taken from a captive lynx as ones found in the wild.
Had the scam not been detected, access to hundreds of thousands of acres of public forests might have been severely restricted based on the false premise that the cats were present. Several participants in the scam said that they only submitted the false ...
- Efforts to Thin National Forests Has Pros and Cons.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 14, 2002 700+ words
...is calling for a new policy of thinning national forests in an effort to prevent catastrophic wildfires...Scientists often cite the Okanogan and Wenatchee national forests in central Washington state as fine examples. Q: How much would it...
- STUDY OVER FUTURE OF NATIONAL FORESTS ERUPTS INTO SQUABBLE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 26, 1998 700+ words
...economic uses of the national forests in order to turn them...191 million acres of national forests, including 1.6 million acres in Washington state. The rules, last...Nowhere has the use of National Forests changed more dramatically...
- REPUBLICANS ASK FOR FASTER LOGGING IN NATIONAL FORESTS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) February 29, 1996 700+ words
...yesterday to accelerate logging on national forests and forget about trying to...summer. During his visit to Washington state last weekend, the president...some old-growth stands in national forests in the Northwest. He hasn...
- Washington Forest Protection Association: We Must Actively Manage Our National...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 17, 2004 700+ words
...for years, that the health of our national forests is at risk. Year after year we are...communities. We must actively manage our national forests now, before our future options burn...grow trees on 4.2 million acres in Washington State. The association is based in Olympia...
- Millions of Acres of National Forests in Jeopardy
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition April 13, 1994 700+ words
...injunction halting almost all logging on federal forests in Washington state, Oregon and northern California. Dwyer was responding...overcutting, according to Tuchman, that depleted our national forests. Mr. TUCHMAN: Stepping on the gas pedal when we should...
- Governor, land commissioner urge congressional action this month on federal...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 4, 1989 700+ words
...timber supply and old growth protection in the national forests of Washington State. The House-Senate conference committee on...Washington State during fiscal year 1990. In several national forests, the amount of timber under contract has declined...
- Actor Chevy Chase, others press conference on Washington State forests. (NEWS...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 27, 1990 700+ words
...ACTOR CHEVY CHASE, OTHERS PRESS CONFERENCE ON WASHINGTON STATE FORESTS WHO: Actor Chevy Chase and his wife...press conference to report on their flight over national forests in Washington state. They will also discuss the urgent need to...
- Actor Chevy Chase, others press conference on Washington State Forests. (NEWS...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 26, 1990 700+ words
...ACTOR CHEVY CHASE, OTHERS PRESS CONFERENCE ON WASHINGTON STATE FORESTS WHO: Actor Chevy Chase and his wife...press conference to report on their flight over national forests in Washington state. They will also discuss the urgent need to...