Western Citizen

It's springtime in the Rockies and you know what that means. It's get-your-states-rights-declare-sovereignty-from-the-big-bad-feds on.

Ag Sec. Vilsack will be in Montana Saturday to broker a deal on a contentious forest management plan to allow logging of beetle-killed trees.

Obama's proposed budget includes federal forest restoration funding. That news jumpstarts two meetings in Lincoln and Missoula today.

A federal judge hears allegations the Forest Service crossed its fingers on a conservation deal to limit San Juan Basin gas drilling.

A masterful analysis of the ugly truth behind Forest Service policy sausage-making offers many lessons for future land management lobbying.

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