Logging

Oregon and Washington: As of our press date, 150 timber sales target more than 50,000 acres of native and old growth forest in western Oregon and Washington. More than 70 acres were recently cut in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest. Several of the last patches of native and old growth left in Oregon's Willamette National Forest are being clearcut.
Montana: Bitterroot National Forest is being "salvage logged" in the largest timber sale in U.S. history: 60 million board feet from 14,000 acres.
California: The Forest Service is logging trees more than 1,000 years old in the Sequoia National Monument.
Alaska: Logging proponents in the Bush administration are planning many timber sales in the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the U.S. Tongass is known for its rich salmon spawning grounds, prime grizzly bear habitat and the world's most concentrated population of bald eagles.
Washington: The Bush administration has 26 native and old growth timber sales scheduled in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Fifteen more are in the planning process. Ninety percent of the logging planned for the next ten years targets old growth.

Drilling

California: Oil companies already extract 700,000 barrels of oil per year on more than 14,600 acres in Los Padres National Forest, substantially degrading national forestlands. But the Forest Service is attempting to open additional wildlands in five roadless areas of coastal mountains that are home to 20 of California's 67 endangered condors.
Alaska: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is not out of danger yet. Despite the April Senate vote that rejected a provision to drill in ANWR, the fate of the refuge remains undecided as the House and Senate must now reconcile their versions of the energy bill.
Florida: A private company plans to conduct exploratory oil drilling and seismic testing in the heart of the Big Cypress National Preserve, which is named for its expansive landscape of cypress, wet prairies, mixed hardwood swamps and pinelands.
Rocky Mountain Front: Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest is one of several areas in the Rockies under consideration for oil and gas drilling. Under the Bush administration's energy bill, more than 350,000 acres could be opened to drilling. There has also been a huge jump in drilling permits in Utah's Uinta Basin. More than 1,200 wells have been drilled and 1,748 permit applications have been approved since 2000.
Wyoming: The Forest Service plans to open 370,000 acres of Bridger-Teton National Forest for drilling, in the heart of Greater Yellowstone. Forest officials foresee up to 128 new wells, even though just 11 of 160 current wells are producing oil.

Mining

Missouri: A renewed effort to search for lead in the Ozarks has reignited a 20 year battle. The Doe Run Company is seeking permission from the Forest Service to drill more than 200 holes, some up to 1,000 feet deep, for additional lead deposits in the Mark Twain National Forest. Potential drill site locations have been disclosed to the Forest Service and the BLM but not the public.
Montana: Glacier National Park, listed as one of America's ten most endangered national parks, is threatened by open-pit coal mines and logging that would pollute the North Fork of the Flathead River, along the park's western edge. A recent Canadian proposal to expand the Waterton Lakes National Park north of Glacier would prevent more logging in the biologically diverse floodplain ecosystem.
Southern Utah: A world-renowned symbol of the American West, Redrock Wilderness is currently being destroyed by hard-rock mining, oil and gas exploration, drilling, logging, grazing and ORV wreckreation.

Grazing

Arizona: Grazing continues in Tonto National Forest despite the destruction of a fragile desert ecosystem. It will take centuries to recover from the damage already done. The Arizona BLM grazing allotments are scheduled to be assessed this year for compliance with the statewide Standards and Guidelines for Rangeland Health.
Idaho: Grazing in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area is threatening gray wolves, which are killed or relocated after conflicts with cattle. A coalition of Idaho conservation groups is demanding the closure of eight grazing allotments that would encompass more than 100,000 acres.

ORV Wreckreation

Yellowstone National Park: The Park Service's decision to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park was overturned by the Bush administration, which initiated a new study and forced the park to develop new, pro-snowmobile alternatives.
California: The BLM published a proposal for the Algondones Dunes in the Sonoran Desert that would allow off-road vehicles access to an additional 49,000 acres that are home to many rare, threatened and endemic species.
Utah: The National Park Service has decided to keep motor vehicles out of Salt Creek Canyon, one of Canyonlands National Park's most fragile riparian zones. But off-road vehicle groups and local governments are trying to reverse the decision.
Utah: Legislation in Congress would create a federal motorized trail system, the "Shoshone Trail," in northern Utah. The system would include more than 500 miles of trails.

Bush Administration: Trashing Land, Air, Soil and Water