In a contentious meeting that distilled a weeks-long fight, the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee deadlocked 10-10 along party lines Thursday on approving Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination as head of the Bureau of Land Management. Read more» 
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Tracy Stone-Manning and a former federal investigator during the past few days shared widely varying accounts of her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking in an Idaho national forest, as the fight over the Montanan’s nomination to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management escalated. Read more»
Arizona lawmakers invoked the memory of the 19 fallen Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters at a congressional hearing Thursday where they urged bureaucrats to improve forest management to prevent such fires in the future. Read more»
In 2005, demand for mantlepieces, timbers and decorative wood braces had Joe Agosta's wood mill turning away business. Now a staff of eight has shrunk to three. Across Arizona, anyone working in the wood business, from small mills like Agosta's to larger lumberyards, has seen business drop because of the housing market collapse. Read more»
