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FILE - City of Bellevue Forest Management Program Supervisor Rick Bailey stands among dozens of juvenile giant sequoias Oct. 11, 2022, in Bellevue, Wash. As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate change, the U.S. Forest Service and others are turning to a strategy called "assisted migration." (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes, File)

As tree species die off, ‘assisted migration’ gains popularity in Pacific Northwest

By Nathan Gilles and Columbia Insight - Associated Press

Michael Donnelly stands in a grove of old-growth trees in the off-trail area of the Opal Creek Wilderness area, July 30, 2015, east of Salem, Ore. The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal lands by revising management plans for all national forests and grasslands in the U.S. (Zach Urness/Statesman-Journal via AP, File)

Biden administration moves to protect oldest trees as climate change brings more fires, pests

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon river Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act, and the Endangered Species Act when it amended a protection that had been in place since 1994. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws, judge says

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An alligator is seen in a pond at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006. Florida's alligator hunting season started Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, with new rules expanding the time and weapons that can be used. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman, File)

Gator bites snorkeler in U.S. Forest Service swim area in Florida

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Fire burns in the hollow of an old-growth redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif. The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government lands. The Associated Press obtained details on the government's first-ever national inventory of older forests in advance of their expected public release on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

U.S. plans new forest protections, issues old-growth inventory

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jan. 25, 2008 file photo, cows graze in a field near snow covered Lizard Butte just outside Marsing, Idaho. The United States is seeking to invalidate a series of Idaho laws passed in the last five years that create a path through the Idaho Department of Water Resources for ranchers to take over federal instream water rights through a state-approved forfeiture procedure. (Greg Kreller/Idaho Press-Tribune via AP, File)

U.S. seeks to invalidate Idaho water rights forfeiture laws

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

FILE - A forest along NM518 in Mora County, N.M, is scorched by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire, May 23, 2022. The supervisor who was in charge of the Santa Fe National Forest when the federal government sparked what became the largest wildfire in New Mexico's recorded history has been temporarily assigned to a post in Washington, D.C. Her replacement was named Friday, July 8, but some have questioned the timing given an ongoing suppression effort that now totals about $275 million. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Top official during massive New Mexico blaze gets new post

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

Burned underbrush can be seen across the road from United World College of the American West, a boarding school evacuated due to wildfires as seen outside Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. School officials were able to visit the grounds earlier this week after winds and fires waned. Students at the boarding school, most of whom are from overseas, have been moved to a summer camp outside Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Artificial intelligence tapped to fight Western wildfires

By Judith Kohler - Associated Press

Gold miners on a bulldozer try to put out a fire set by the National Police at an illegal mining operation as part of the Armed Forces' &quot;Operation Guamuez III&quot; in Magui Payan, Colombia, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. None of the workers were detained during the destruction of machinery, but in previous days some machinists and material suppliers were detained, according to Army Col. Pedro Pablo Astaiza. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

U.S. OKs gold mine exploratory drilling in eastern Idaho

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

California Fire Management Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Sorry, Forest Service, fire is not our friend

By Rep. Tom McClintock

Oregon Forest Service to reduce wild horse population

Associated Press

Michigan wildfire about fully contained a week later

Associated Press

Debate erupts over road across Mount St. Helens blast zone

By MONICA SAMAYOA - Associated Press

Forest Service denies heli-skiing in Centennial Mountains

Associated Press

FILE - This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Court rules against Apaches in bid to halt proposed mine

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

Former San Carlos Apache Chairman Wendsler Nosie Sr. talks to a group gathered outside the federal courthouse in Phoenix, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Nosie leads Apache Stronghold, a group that's asking a federal judge to keep the U.S. Forest Service from turning over a parcel of land it considers sacred, to a copper mining company. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)

Apaches’ fight over Arizona copper mine goes before US court

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 22, 2015, file photo, Tribal councilman Wendsler Nosie, Sr. speaks with Apache activists in a rally to save Oak Flat, land near Superior, Ariz., sacred to Western Apache tribes, in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Judge denies Apache group seeking request to halt land swap

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

11 prescribed burns planned this week at Lake Tahoe

Associated Press

Lawsuit seeks to stop Idaho forest project near Yellowstone

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Idaho hikers, historians aim to uncover trail to gold mine

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