TONGASS “GOOD NEIGHBOR” AGREEMENT GOES BAD
Alexander Archipelago Logging Did No Restoration and Timber Exported to Asia
Forest Service
News Releases
FOREST SERVICE WANTS TO PAY MORE IN MONEY-LOSING TIMBER SALE
Alaska Region Urges Off-the-Books Cash to Logger to Sweeten Tongass Contract
NATIONAL FORESTS REMAIN VULNERABLE TO TIMBER THEFT AND FRAUD
Lawsuit Filed to Force U.S. Forest Service to Disclose the Fate of Promised Reforms
ANIMAL CRUELTY CASE VS. U.S. FOREST SERVICE SIDELINED
Two Horses and a Mule Died of Dehydration in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves Forest
FOREST SERVICE RANGERS AT RECORD LOW LEVELS
Assaults and Threats against Forest Workers Spike but Decline in Other Agencies
FOREST SERVICE SCALPED ON TONGASS TIMBER SALES
Bad Sales Cost Taxpayers & Alaska Schools Big Money and Hurt the Forest
TRAIL OF TEARS ILLEGALLY DEFACED BY FOREST SERVICE
Agency Apologizes for Destroying Sacred Sites but Offers No Atonement
SUIT TO ENFORCE FEDERAL CONTRACTOR WHISTLEBLOWER LAW
Little-Used Law for Federal Contract and Subcontract Employees to Lapse in 2017
FOREST SERVICE HATCHETS LAW ENFORCEMENT
Rangers Told to “Prioritize” in Face of One-Sixth Reduction in Personnel
FOREST SERVICE COPS AGAIN CALL FOR CHANGE BUT LOSING HOPE
Official Survey Shows Law Enforcement Officers Ill-Equipped, Alienated and Adrift
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Ruined Relics — Crumbling Cultural Resource Protection (October 2002) Ruined Relics is an account by former cultural resources staff and volunteers of Los PadresNational Forest documenting the dramatic declineof one of the premiere historical preservationprograms in the nation. more >> |
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Stealing the Tongass — Playing by Alaska Rules in the U.S. Forest Service (November 1996) The institutional complicity of the U.S. Forest Service results in widespread commercial timber theft, massive scaling fraud and illegal exporting of unfinished public logs from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. more >> |
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Unindicted Co-Conspirator — Timber Theft and the U.S. Forest Service (March 1996) The Forest Service has unilaterally disarmed the war against major timber theft and fraud by removing its police from the forest protection beat. Salvage sales, supposedly designed to promote forest health, leave the national forests and the American taxpayers at the mercy of an industry honor system -- an open invitation to steal. more >> |
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Business As Usual — A Case Study of Environmental and Fiscal Malpractice on the Eldorado National Forest (February 1996) The Forest Service has mismanaged the Eldorado National Forest in California and has attempted to cover-up wrongdoings. Agency managers have committed environmental violations costing tens of millions of tax dollars. more >> |
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