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Forestry budgets sapped by scourges of warming climate

By | 03.06.12 | 2:42 pm

The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House’s proposed agency budget for fiscal year 2013.

Love it, hate it: Conservationists split on Sherman pick to head USFS

By | 09.10.09 | 4:10 pm

Some conservationists praised the Obama administration’s nomination Thursday of Harris Sherman to the post of Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Others aren’t quite so sure the two-time head of the Colorado Department of…

Sherman’s March Back to DNR

By | 01.05.07 | 6:00 am

Will any Western Slope resident find themselves serving on Governor Ritter’s cabinet? So far it’s been a shutout. Rifle native Russell George will not retain his position of director of Department of Natural Resources as Ritter’s transition team announced that…