In his career, AuCoin took a prominent role in abortion rights, local and national environmental issues, multiple use management of federal forests, and national security.

Examples of reservations include Indian reservations, national wildlife refuges, federal forests and military bases.

After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905,it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907.

Other research calls into question a main justification for thinning: protecting the housing that has proliferated around the edges of federal forests.

In 1905 all federal forests were transferred to the U.S. Forest Service.

President Bush's 2007 budget proposes to raise the money by auctioning off about 300,000 acres of federal forest in 41 states, at an anticipated price of $800 million.

Critics contend that the bill would open federal forests to widespread logging that would benefit the timber industry without protecting communities threatened by fire.

Several federal and state natural forests and parks make up popular student destinations.

This one, on June 1, near the site of a disputed timber sale in a federal forest, burned three logging trucks.

The administration, at the request of lumber and paper companies, gave Forest Service managers the right to approve logging in federal forests without the usual environmental reviews.