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ARTICLES BY KEITH HAMMER

Forest Service encouraging reckless behavior

Flathead Forest Supervisor Chip Weber ignores the advice of his own staff and grizzly bear experts, suggesting we consider all recreational activities to have an equal basis of risk when deciding whether to promote them. His staff and other bear experts note in their Board of Review recommendations against trail …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Forest Service encouraging reckless behavior

Flathead Forest Supervisor Chip Weber ignores the advice of his own staff and grizzly bear experts, suggesting we consider all recreational activities to have an equal basis of risk when deciding whether to promote them. His staff and other bear experts note in their Board of Review recommendations against trail …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Forest Service uses 'collaboration' as scam

The Forest Service is using collaboration as the latest scam to convince the public its forests are broken and that logging is the cure. The Forest Service is paying collaborative partners that support this lie so it can hand more public trees over to private industry.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Forest Service uses 'collaboration' as scam

The Forest Service is using collaboration as the latest scam to convince the public its forests are broken and that logging is the cure. The Forest Service is paying collaborative partners that support this lie so it can hand more public trees over to private industry.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Daines and Tester misleading on logging of federal lands

Sens. Daines and Tester are spreading misinformation in their bid to pump up logging of federal lands. They are doing industry’s bidding and they don’t seem to care if their rate of logging public forests violates environmental laws or not.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Daines and Tester misleading on logging of federal lands

Sens. Daines and Tester are spreading misinformation in their bid to pump up logging of federal lands. They are doing industry’s bidding and they don’t seem to care if their rate of logging public forests violates environmental laws or not.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Daines and Tester spreading misinformation about logging

Sens. Steve Daines and Jon Tester are spreading misinformation in their bid to pump up logging of federal lands. They are doing industry’s bidding, and they don’t seem to care if their rate of logging public forests violates environmental laws or not.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Daines and Tester spreading misinformation about logging

Sens. Steve Daines and Jon Tester are spreading misinformation in their bid to pump up logging of federal lands. They are doing industry’s bidding, and they don’t seem to care if their rate of logging public forests violates environmental laws or not.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Timber at issue

Perhaps the timber industry in Montana will arrive at a dependable timber base on public lands when it quits bullying the land managers into promising what they can’t deliver.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Timber mills learned a lesson the hard way

Perhaps the timber industry in Montana will arrive at a dependable timber base on public lands when it quits bullying the land managers into promising what they can’t deliver.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Timber mills learned a lesson the hard way

Perhaps the timber industry in Montana will arrive at a dependable timber base on public lands when it quits bullying the land managers into promising what they can’t deliver.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Wants Flathead Forest snowmobile season shortened

This an open letter to Flathead National Forest supervisor Chip Weber, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Helena field supervisor Jodi Bush and Rocky Mountain District Ranger Mike Munoz.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Wants Flathead Forest snowmobile season shortened

This an open letter to Flathead National Forest supervisor Chip Weber, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Helena field supervisor Jodi Bush and Rocky Mountain District Ranger Mike Munoz.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Watchdog groups to pull back from Forest Plan process

The following letter was sent to Flathead National Forest superviser Chip Weber:
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Watchdog groups to pull back from Forest Plan process

The following letter was sent to Flathead National Forest superviser Chip Weber:
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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