The president of Uganda asked the National Forest Authority boss to quit after he refused to license a palm oil company to destroy a pristine rainforest on an island in Lake Victoria, according to his resignation note.
Long-term management plans for national forests will no longer go through a formal environmental impact statement, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday.
Rural counties in the United States have lost $500 million in funding for schools and roads since Congress adjourned without extending a federal program.
Steve Eisenhauer and Pat Sutton will be at it again today: Heading out into the hidden, swampy depths of Cumberland County to see, and show others, trees that were probably alive when Columbus landed.
To most Marylanders, the protected state forests called wildlands are more an idea than a destination - rarely seen but treasured by many as untouchable tracts of tall trees more than a century old.
To Marshall Stacy, they are a menace.
