Department of Interior
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Followup to Obama’s move to temporarily delay mining claims on a million scenic acres is shaping up into a major battle- Mine ban at Canyon may fuel new fight By Shaun McKinnon and Erin Kelly. Azcentral.com Polls show the state’s residents support the general position of Grijalva. The Arizona Strip is a vast area of…
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Rep. Nick Rahall, Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, has a soft spot for wild horses. That’s good, it’s a national disgrace the way these animals are treated. His bill just passed the house: Room to roam: House votes to rescue wild horses – AP WASHINGTON — Galloping to the aid of the nation’s…
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Salazar cites failure to provide adequate Endangered Species Act consultations as on the forefront of his decision to scrap attempts to log BLM land in Oregon. Obama Admin Scraps Logging Plan in Ore. Carbon Sinks – New York Times The move scraps a Bush-era decision to rezone 2.6 million acres of Bureau of Land Management…
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Last Friday WWP won a reversal of a previous court decision that would have held that Presidents have the authority to designate – but not direct management of – national monuments. Preservation and the President: A Positive Development in the Sonoran Desert – Ti Hays, PreservationNation Last Friday, in a positive development, a federal district…
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Only 11 per cent of federal efforts have been near homes or offices- This won’t come as any surprise to those of us who have watched the BLM and Forest Service conduct preemptive (“prescriptive”) burns and vegetation thinnings. Most of the fire reduction work I see is deep in the forest land, although often fairly…
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News article reports praises from all quarters- I suspect he is not so popular as the AP* article below indicates. New federal BLM chief nominated. The Associated Press. The BLM directorship is not a simple appointment position. Abbey must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate where holds and filibusters increasingly hold sway. – – –…
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Salazar’s concession to Utah’s Senator Bennett to allow Hayes to be confirmed number two at Interior doesn’t turn out like the Senator wanted- Enviros cheer, critics jeer report on ‘flawed’ oil leases. Bishop » Utah congressman calls it “crap,” Bennett is conciliatory. By Thomas Burr. The Salt Lake Tribune. From my perspective this dust-up turned…
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Central Idaho threatened/endangered fish habitat is threatened by public land livestock grazing. Federal managers drag their feet. WWP threatens to file suit. Many folk don’t realize the impact to native fisheries habitat that livestock grazing can and does have. The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other land and wildlife management agencies work diligently to avoid…