In one instance, the Sierra Club took the federal Forest Service to court over the management of two forests in Wisconsin.

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In the 1990s, environmentalists and federal forest officials reported forests had become overgrown as a result of firefighters putting out too many natural fires too quickly.

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Many of Mr Murkowski's own proposals for boosting the state economy, such as a plan to increase logging in the Tongass National Forest, require the federal Forest Service to spend millions building new roads.

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We're going to continue to make sure that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Forest Service, our military and National Guard and all the resources that we have available at the federal level are brought to bear in fighting this fire.

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In the past four years, AstraZeneca ( AZN), Pfizer ( PFE), Eli Lilly ( LLY), Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY) and Forest Labs ( FRX) have all settled federal charges of marketing psychoactive drugs off-label, at a cost running into hundreds of millions.

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The U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Defense Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were providing support to Colorado and other states affected by wildfires and flash flooding, authorities said Sunday.

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Invoking this provision, the feds in June informed CEO, president and chairman of Forest Laboratories Howard Solomon that they intend to exclude him from business interactions with the federal government, in spite of the absence of any charge of misconduct against him personally.

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In Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned to take advantage of the snow to burn piles of dead trees on federal land.

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NPR's staff and friends pretend that NPR isn't such a big deal, that it's just one creature in the great forest of talk radio, which happens to be funded--but only fractionally--by the federal government.

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