Ray Ring’s article “Roadless-less” devotes considerable attention to a March, 2000, Forest Service employees’ union letter opposing the Clinton roadless rule (HCN, 11/9/09). According to Ring and the union, Forest Service employees who opposed the roadless rule faced “threats of reprisal from the (Clinton) administration …” To the contrary, the only such threats of which […]
Andy Stahl
Posted inMarch 4, 2002: Seed in the ground
‘His courtroom was a classroom’
“The end of an era” is how Mark Rutzick, attorney for the timber industry, describes the passing of Judge William L. Dwyer, who died Feb. 12 at 72 from complications associated with cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Although the sentiment is perhaps wishful thinking on the part of Rutzick, who lost virtually every case he brought […]
Posted inFebruary 15, 1999: Uncommon Bounty
We did our job
Dear HCN, In Ted Williams’ original commentary on Nevada land exchanges, as it appeared in Fly Rod and Reel magazine, Williams wrote that the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics had an “obligation” to report on the Office of Inspector General investigation (HCN, 12/21/98). We agree. That’s why we did. It may also interest your […]