This article come from law firm Stole Rives LLC, (www.stoel.com), and is authored by Sarah Stauffer Curtiss, Heath Curtiss, and Aaron Courtney Nearly five years after issuing its draft directives, the U.S. Forest Service recently issued final directives for wind energy special use authorizations. See 76 Fed Reg 47,354 (Aug. 4, 2011). The new directives…