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...footprints-less than an acre apiece-with the potential for substantial boosts to local economies." Forest Service spokesman Ray Massey said the inventoried roadless areas can still allow mining and other projects. These can be approved by Department of...
...footage from around the country and stories of how his conservation ideas continue to inspire people today. According to Ray Massey, a public spokesman for the USFS Alaska region, "Aldo Leopold is considered to be the father of ecological thought...
...concerns the Roadless Rule. A federal judge reinstated the rule in the Tongass earlier this year. Forest Service Spokesman Ray Massey said the rule doesn't automatically disqualify development in inventoried roadless areas. He said the secretary of Agriculture...
...met," he said. The Forest Service was unable to comment on the decision due to the litigation involved. Spokesman Ray Massey referred questions to the Department of Justice. The Department also declined comment. Any time approval of a logging...
U.S. Forest Service employee Ray Massey, left, and Federal Highway Administration employees Julie Jenkins, center, and David Miller deliver food to the Juneau Southeast...
...April 22, it was about 640 feet off of Gilbert Point at the northwest edge of Russell Fiord. Forest Service spokesman Ray Massey said Thursday the glacier has backed off and is now more than 800 feet from Gilbert Point. The agency is cautiously...
...stipulated no more land would be set aside for conservation. The settlement called for two proposed regulations, said Ray Massey, spokesman for the Forest Service's Alaska Region. The first permanently would exempt the Chugach and Tongass forests...
...the area to the public. "We issued a forest closure notice for the area that the people are protesting in," said Ray Massey with the Forest Service. "Anything within 300 feet of the road or the log transfer facility or the forest sale units...
...result on the Clover Bay folks," Schane said. One of the log transfer facilities would be built near the lodge, but Ray Massey, spokesman for the Forest Service's Alaska Region, said the plan now calls for a "buffer strip" of vegetation to...
...come up with $13.7 million as its contribution to help fund firefighting efforts, Forest Service regional spokesman Ray Massey said. That amounted to more than 11 percent of the region's $117 million annual budget. Not only was the bite big...