Judge Agrees with FSEEE: Forest Service Retardant Use Violates Clean Water Act
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ruled in our favor in our lawsuit challenging Forest Service use of aerial fire retardant, affirming that dumping the toxic slurry into water violates the Clean Water Act and that the Forest Service must acquire a Clean Water Act...
Boundary Waters Wilderness Protected From Copper Mining for 20 Years
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed a mineral withdrawal order protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Superior National Forest from sulfide-ore copper mining. Sulfide-ore copper mining generates waste rock full of sulfates, which, when exposed to...
Biden Administration Restores Tongass Protections
The Department of Agriculture finalized protections for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. The final rule, announced Jan. 25, repeals the Trump Administration's 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, restoring protections to...
FSEEE Protest Prompts Forest Service to Retract Herbicide Plan
When officials at Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming proposed aerial spraying to kill native larkspur and sagebrush under the guise of controlling invasive weeds, FSEEE called foul. Larkspur can sometimes be toxic to cattle, and cattle won’t eat sagebrush. Given the...
Victory: Post-fire Forests Reopening in Oregon
During the 2020 and 2021 fires in Oregon national forests, the Forest Service issued closure orders in the affected areas. But once the fires were extinguished, closure orders were extended, ostensibly to protect the public from the risks posed by so-called “danger...
