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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Obama Forest</title>
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		<title>USA: Obama forests cleared for strip mines</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-obama-forests-cleared-for-strip-mines/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-obama-forests-cleared-for-strip-mines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Environmentalists were stunned to learn from Rahall&#39;s office May 15  that the EPA had given its blessing to 42 out of the 48 mine projects  it had reviewed so far &#8212; including two dozen mountaintop removals. &#34;It  was a big disappointment,&#34; said Joan Mulhern, a lawyer for  Earthjustice, an environmental law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Roadless rules rule again, at least temporarily?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-roadless-rules-rule-again-at-least-temporarily/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/usa-roadless-rules-rule-again-at-least-temporarily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a temporary order yesterday (last thursday) governing development in &#34;roadless&#34; areas of national forests, requiring all new projects to be approved by him personally. Vilsack&#39;s order, which will be in effect for a year, is the latest turn in an eight-year-old battle over 58.5 million acres of pristine woods. President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Another $51 million to thin federal forests for better or 	worse?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/oregon-another-51-million-to-thin-federal-forests-for-better-or-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/oregon-another-51-million-to-thin-federal-forests-for-better-or-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forest Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do we really know if we hurt or harm a forest when we thin it? The lack of accountability in forestry in the past has been addressed a bit more on US federal lands in recent decades&#8230; But how can we be sure? As someone who loves to drive the back roads of National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Gov tells judge they&#8217;re withdrawing from Bush-era Spotted Owl 	extinction plan</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/usa-gov-tell-judge-theyre-withdrawing-from-bush-era-spotted-owl-extinction-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/usa-gov-tell-judge-theyre-withdrawing-from-bush-era-spotted-owl-extinction-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habitat restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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Government attorneys filed notice late Tuesday in federal district court in Washington D.C. asking to withdraw the owl recovery plan finalized last year as well as the accompanying changes to critical owl habitat areas. That could end up reversing a decision from last year that trimmed by about a quarter the amount of federal forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Destroyers of rainforest start fakin &#8216;da greenies to get 	their hands on stimulus dollars</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/oregon-destroyers-of-rainforest-start-fakin-da-greenies-to-get-their-hands-on-stimulus-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/oregon-destroyers-of-rainforest-start-fakin-da-greenies-to-get-their-hands-on-stimulus-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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Some people who have long fought to clear-cut the region’s verdant slopes are trying to reposition themselves for a more environmentally friendly economy, motivated by changing political interests, the federal stimulus package and sheer desperation. “I run into people all the time who think we’re lying and trying to go back to old logging ways,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Questions about stimulus for &#8220;fuels reduction&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/oregon-examples-questions-about-stimulus-funding-for-fuels-reduction/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/oregon-examples-questions-about-stimulus-funding-for-fuels-reduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enclosed below are a couple examples of stimulus bill spending on forest thinning. While reading consider this: Depression-era conservation corp forest thinning created many jobs in the name of  FDR&#8217;s New Deal.
So in the name of what&#8230; is Obama&#8217;s forest thinning funds addressing current joblessness? 
And is Obama&#8217;s stimulus really creating jobs, or&#8230; is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: First Annual State of the Birds Report</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/usa-first-annual-state-of-the-birds-report/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/usa-first-annual-state-of-the-birds-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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“Citizen science plays a critical role in monitoring and understanding the threats to these birds and their habitats, and only citizen involvement can help address them,” said National Audubon Society’s Bird Conservation Director, Greg Butcher. “Conservation action can only make a real difference when concerned people support the kind of vital habitat restoration and protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia: Is anyone willing to take on Big Coal&#8217;s Senator Robert 	Byrd</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/west-virginia-is-anyone-willing-to-take-on-big-coals-senator-robert-byrd/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/west-virginia-is-anyone-willing-to-take-on-big-coals-senator-robert-byrd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A recent court decision has given the green light to as many as 90
mountaintop mining projects in Appalachia’s coal-rich hills, which in
turn could destroy more than 200 miles of valleys and streams on top
of the 1,200 miles that have already been obliterated.
Full text of the NYtimes editorial opinion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16mon2.html?_r=2

The right course for the administration is clear: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: Forest Service forcing forest plans into shovel ready 	stimulus status as fast as possible</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/arizona-forest-service-forcing-forest-plans-into-shovel-ready-stimulus-status-as-fast-as-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/arizona-forest-service-forcing-forest-plans-into-shovel-ready-stimulus-status-as-fast-as-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildfire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The thinning projects started with some small communities along the
East Verde, shifted to Pine and Strawberry, and in the past year, have
focused on creating a buffer zone around Payson — especially to the
south where prevailing winds can push fires into the thickly forested
town. “We’ve completed three-quarters of the projects that address an
immediate threat,” said Ed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hampshire: Center for Biodiversity on White Mountain NF roadless 	area destruction</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/new-hampshire-center-for-biodiversity-on-white-mountain-nf-roadless-area-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/new-hampshire-center-for-biodiversity-on-white-mountain-nf-roadless-area-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enviro litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The White Mountain National Forest has again demonstrated that it is  out of touch with science, the will of the American people, and its  own analyses of the values of these roadless lands,” said Mollie  Matteson, conservation advocate at the Center for Biological  Diversity.  Thursday the U.S. Forest Service denied an appeal of the fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: How will Obama forests be affected by Stimulus Bill?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/22/usa-how-will-our-obama-forests-be-affected-by-the-stimulus-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/22/usa-how-will-our-obama-forests-be-affected-by-the-stimulus-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/22/usa-how-will-our-obama-forests-be-affected-by-the-stimulus-bill/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After debates in both the House and Senate and funding reductions in
conference, the final economic stimulus package gives close to $1.5
billion to the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) for watershed restoration, road maintenance and decommissioning,
infrastructure improvements, and hazardous fuels reduction projects to
be spent over the next two years.
For more information, contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: What is Muse?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/poetry-what-is-muse/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/poetry-what-is-muse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

What is muse?
Muse is a sinking in the gut
A rise tingling in the spine
Muse is brethren and motherin
And father lovin by inspirin
a cradle to crave delight&#8217;n
What makes us know our root&#8217;s truth in
What makes us want more of
What knows us better than we know,
What is our purest burning fire?
What is our opening clearest knowing?
Craving&#8230; fulfilled
our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington: Tribal Chairman of Fisheries, Billy Frank, speaks for 	roadless areas</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/washington-tribal-chairman-of-fisheries-billy-frank-speaks-for-roadless-areas/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/washington-tribal-chairman-of-fisheries-billy-frank-speaks-for-roadless-areas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribal forestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an excess of optimism around these days. People feel
like we&#8217;ve turned a page, that things we considered not possible are
now possible. One of the previously hopeless fights I hope ends soon
is the long legal battle over the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
which has the potential to protect more than two million acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Is Obama&#8217;s big billion dollar USFS budget backed with big 	eco-minded changes?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/usa-is-obamas-big-billion-dollar-usfs-budget-backed-with-big-eco-minded-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/usa-is-obamas-big-billion-dollar-usfs-budget-backed-with-big-eco-minded-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stimulus bill that passed the House last week directed more than a
billion dollars to the U.S. Forest Service. Portland Democrat Ron
Wyden wants to keep Forest Service funding in the Senate stimulus bill
too. And Monday, the Obama administration signaled it wants a bigger
budget for the Forest Service.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://news.opb.org/article/4230-obama-administration-will-shift-forest-service-policy/

On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska: Senators introduce same old bill giving away 80,000 acres of 	public land</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/alaska-senators-introduce-same-old-bill-giving-away-80000-acres-of-public-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/alaska-senators-introduce-same-old-bill-giving-away-80000-acres-of-public-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal selling of public land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senators Murkowski (R) and Begich (D) of Alaska came out Friday on an
Alaska radio station announcing their intent to reintroduce S 3561
from the last session that would give 80,000 acres of public land in
the Tongass National Forest to a private corporation, Sealaska Native
Corp. This is the first time this session either Senator has committed
themselves to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Sally Collins runs Obama&#8217;s Office of Ecosystem Services and 	Markets</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/05/usa-sally-collins-runs-obamas-office-of-ecosystem-services-and-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/05/usa-sally-collins-runs-obamas-office-of-ecosystem-services-and-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a new bureaucratic mouthful called &#8220;Office of Ecosystem Services
and Markets.&#8221; It&#8217;s part of the US Department of Agriculture, which not
only works with farmers and ranchers but also includes the US Forest
Service and its 193 million acres. Heading the new office is Sally
Collins, a former Forest Service ranger who reports directly to new
USDA head Tom Vilsack, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: 16th Chief of the USFS, Abigail R. Kimbell</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/03/usa-16th-chief-of-the-us-forest-service-is-abigail-r-kimbell/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/03/usa-16th-chief-of-the-us-forest-service-is-abigail-r-kimbell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a teenager, I was a junior counselor for a day camp and had an
opportunity to hear a guy talking about how trees grow and how you
measure trees, and it was my first realization that you could use math
and science outdoors. He was talking about forestry, forest
management, how you measure trees, how trees grow, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: The Act to Save America&#8217;s Forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/usa-the-act-to-save-americas-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/usa-the-act-to-save-americas-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Carl Ross has spent 20 years in Washington DC  on behalf of the grassroots forest protection movement lobbying for legislation  to provide greater protection for our nation&#8217;s forests &#8211; the Act to Save  America&#8217;s Forests. In that time, he has shown remarkable persistence and  consistency with respect to his original vision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska: Tell Obama to save the Tongass Rainforest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/alaska-tell-obama-to-save-the-tongass-rainforest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/alaska-tell-obama-to-save-the-tongass-rainforest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters needed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inauguration of President Obama could mean the end of an
eight-year assault on America&#8217;s last pristine forests. We need your
help to make sure the Obama administration makes a new commitment to
protecting these remaining wildlands for generations to come. Please
go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction and urge President
Obama to take immediate action to preserve the old growth wilderness
of Alaska&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: America knows it&#8217;s capable of making big dreams come true</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/26/usa-america-knows-its-capable-of-making-big-dreams-come-true/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/26/usa-america-knows-its-capable-of-making-big-dreams-come-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting poverty & Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. gave America the dream of black and white
people working together. He knew it would be hard work, but he had the
courage to share that dream with the nation. That dream has nearly
been accomplished, and it is time for America to look for another
dream. Our world&#8217;s environment is being damaged more every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont: White Mountain NF roadless clearcutting appeal to be 	different under Obama?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/vermont-white-mountain-nf-roadless-clearcutting-appeal-to-be-different-under-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/vermont-white-mountain-nf-roadless-clearcutting-appeal-to-be-different-under-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND &#8211; In the final weeks of the Bush administration, the U.S.
Forest Service slipped in one more plan to clearcut in a roadless area
on the White Mountain National Forest. Six weeks later, on the morning
of Inauguration Day but before the Bush administration left office,
conservationists filed what they hope will be their last appeal of a
logging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Help us help Obama save the world&#8217;s forest!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/19/usa-help-us-help-obama-save-the-worlds-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/19/usa-help-us-help-obama-save-the-worlds-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Forests in Kenya, Indonesia  and Hawaii have a chance at better US  policy because of who, and what an Obama forest is. His worldly upbringing means he knows what some of the world&#8217;s most beautiful landscapes once looked like. Obama lived six (much more forested  that today) years of his childhood in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Defend the Roadless&#8230; Write Obama a letter!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/13/usa-defend-roadless-write-obama-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/13/usa-defend-roadless-write-obama-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out of 58.5 million acres of roadless land across the country,
President George W. Bush and his allies in the logging industry were
only able to build 7 miles of new roads and damage 535 acres of
roadless land. Eight years ago they vowed to do away with the Roadless
Rule, and thanks to your continued dedication to protecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Forest protection plans in the age of Obama</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/08/oregon-forest-protection-plans-in-the-age-of-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/08/oregon-forest-protection-plans-in-the-age-of-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who known me of late notice how I keep talking about an Obama
forest. What&#8217;s an Obama forest you ask? Well we don&#8217;t really know&#8230; I
trust it won&#8217;t be as bad as a Bush forest or a Clinton forest! And
truth is until we know how much Obama reverses Bush forest policies,
we don&#8217;t really know what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Obama creates an Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets (OESM)</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/29/usa-obama-creates-an-office-of-ecosystem-services-and-markets-oesm/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/29/usa-obama-creates-an-office-of-ecosystem-services-and-markets-oesm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced the intention to
establish a new USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets and the
creation of a federal government-wide Conservation and Land Management
Environmental Services Board to assist the Secretary of Agriculture in
the development of new technical guidelines and science-based methods
to assess environmental service benefits which will in turn promote
markets for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington: Gifford Pinchot Task Force on Obama forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/washington-gifford-pinchot-task-force-on-obama-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/washington-gifford-pinchot-task-force-on-obama-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EXPAND RESTORATION-RELATED JOBS: As a forest-health advocate, Platt
hopes that Obama will help fund eco-restoration jobs as part of his
$700 billion plan to stimulate the economy. &#8220;Obama has focused on
clean-energy jobs. But there&#8217;s an incredible opportunity and need for
restoration jobs on public lands in the West,&#8221; she says.

&#8220;For  instance, there&#8217;s an $8 billion backlog for road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: All about the state of the US Forest Service that Obama inherits</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/usa-all-about-the-state-of-the-us-forest-service-that-obama-inherits/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/23/usa-all-about-the-state-of-the-us-forest-service-that-obama-inherits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the 20th century, the Forest Service&#8217;s mission was to
provide wood for a growing nation. But economic changes and
environmental issues — think spotted owl — caused timber harvests to
drop from 12 billion board-feet in the late 1980s to 3 billion today.
Nothing replaced that mission, says Andy Stahl, executive director of
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Message to Obama&#8217;s Main AG man!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/18/usa-message-to-obamas-main-ag-man/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/18/usa-message-to-obamas-main-ag-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Elect Obama announced today the nomination of former
Governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack as the new Secretary of Agriculture.
Nearly 100 conservation organizations representing over 1.5 million
members and citizens from around the country call on Vilsack to
reverse damaging policies promulgated by the Bush administration and
set a new course for the U.S. Forest Service. &#8220;Most people don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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