Subsidies Anonymous
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Subsidies Anonymous is an email newsletter distributed by the Thoreau Institute. Back issues are listed here in reverse chronological order. A few issues may not be listed if they essentially duplicate other articles available on the Institute's web site.
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- Why does Congress continue to give the Forest Service so much money when it does so little?
- The Forest Service issues a rather self-serving report detailing what Chief Bosworth calls "analysis paralysis."
- The 2003 USDA budget includes a proposal for something that sounds like pilot forests.
- Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior should try pilot projects on federal lands.
- The Bush Administration will lose credibility if it tries to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
- Includes proposals that would save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
- A review of "The Idea of Biodiversity" by David Takacs
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Is the environmental movement fragmenting into conservationists and preservationists? 12-6-97
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The law allocating federal highway funds is up for reauthorization--but as written, it promotes congestion and pollution. 11-22-97
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Light- or heavy-rail lines actual promote congestion because they carry so few people yet divert resources from activities that can reduce congestion. 10-21-97
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New Urban planning will significantly increase congestion, pollution, and other urban ills. 10-16-97
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The Forest Service releases the revised Tongass Forest plan. 8-28-97
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Results for every national forest. 4-13-97
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The Forest Service produces much less yets spends about the same. 2-28-97
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Louisiana-Pacific gains a windfall when it terminates the last long-term timber contract. 2-26-97
- Senator Larry Craig proposes to reform a sinking Forest Service, but ends up just rearranging the deck chairs.
1-28-97
- A circuit court rules that the Forest Service has an incentive to overcut.
1-25-97
- How the salvage sale rider influences forest managers; also, a book review of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares.
1-8-97
- Why the next Interior secretary is likely to take over the Forest Service.
1-6-97
- Small is beautiful.
10-15-96
- Some people have been bamboozled into thinking that nineteenth-century technology makes sense for twenty-first century cities.
9-12-96
- Regional government doesn't work.
8-26-96
- Are Americans getting their money's worth?
6-9-96
- The movement has become narrow and intolerant of dissent.
5-30-96
- by Craig Knowles.
5-2-96
- by Craig Knowles.
4-23-96
- Perennial predictions of timber famines never come true.
3-13-96
- Global warming is likely to depress timber prices because it will make trees grow faster.
3-1-96
Issues 1 through 7 each covered multiple topics.
Number 7, 2-6-96
- Oregon Elects a New Senator
- Forest Service Study Criticizes Timber Yield Tables
- Understanding RPA Recreation Values
- Hatfield Proposes Fee Legislation
Number 6, 1-10-96
- National Parks and the Budget Impasse
- "National" vs. "Local" Control
- Environmental Group High Bidder for Timber Sale
- Responses to Forest Principles
- Fee Hunting as an Alternative to Livestock Grazing
- Animal Damage Control Report from General Accounting Office
Number 5, 12-1-95
- Status of Range Reform
- The Draft 1995 RPA Program
- The Seventh American Forest Congress
- Means vs. Ends
- Recent GAO and CRS Reports
Number 4, 11-9-95
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- Statement of Forest Principles
- The Outlook for Forest Reform
- National Forest Reform Act of 1996
- New Book on Public Lands
Number 3, 10-2-95
- Update on Public Rangelands
- Books for Libertarian Environmentalists
- Update on National Parks
- Defending Public Lands
Number 2, 9-6-95
- Update on Recreation User Fees
- How to Talk to Conservatives
- Book Review: Forfeiting Our Property Rights
- The Replicator Society
Number 1, 8-10-95
- Introduction to Subsidies Anonymous
- Update on Reinventing the Forest Service
- The Subsidies Anonymous Pledge
- Update on Recreation User Fees
- The Subsidies Anonymous Twelve-Step Program
- Update on Reforming the Park Service
- Essay on Polarization
- Update on Public Land Grazing
- Preview of Summer Different Drummer
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