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State plans threaten some of the country's last wild places.
By Tara Lohan
"The current roadless rule puts no limits on the use of prescribed fires," Biskupski wrote in a letter that recommended the state leave the federal roadless rule intact.
For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been a public lands windfall. A victim of a slashed budget, it could become a ghost of its former self by month's end.
By Tara Lohan
It’s unlikely that a stand-alone piece of legislation would be passed at this point, but it could be slipped into another big legislative item that also needs to be passed.