All posts tagged "U.S. Forest Service"

  • Politics
    Forest Service Launches Counteroffensive Against Sagebrush Rebellion

    (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Let’s call it a Sagebrush Rebellion counteroffensive. A mere two weeks after the Utah governor signed a bill demanding the federal government cede thousands of acres of public land to the state, the U.S. Forest Service announces it plans to buy private land in Utah and 14 other states...

  • Opinion
    Smelly And Naked Is No Way To Get Things Done

    (Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – At the time a smelly, unkempt mob (no, not Harry Reid’s Washington “tourists”) descended on New York, presumably to change the way Wall Street does business, the Shovel Brigade 2 is starting to take shape in Elko, Nevada. The Shovel Brigade isn’t a sexy movement like reforming...