Scott Olson/Getty Allowing for overlap, Rollins has now designated a total of nearly 113 million acres of NFS land — which amounts to 59% of the total forest land — as an emergency situation ...

In exchange for the state forest land, the district would receive roughly ... convert imperiled gopher tortoise habitat into a peanut field.” A spokesperson for the district, Troy Roberts ...

While a Forest Service administrator described the effort as a "new era" in public land management, legal organizations are already teeing up possible litigation against the plans. On April 3 ...

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“Non-forestry purpose” refers to the clearing or repurposing of forest land for uses other than reforestation. According to a Forest Survey of India (FSI) report, Chandigarh’s forest cover ...