Ken Salazar

  • Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is Leaving His Cabinet Position

    Ken Cole

    Ken Salazar is reportedly leaving his post as Secretary of Interior in March of this year. His legacy includes a failed delisting of wolves in Idaho and Montana, which was legislatively pushed through, delisting of wolves in Wyoming where wolves are treated as vermin, approval of the Deepwater Horizon using a categorical exclusion from National…

  • Governor Gregoire’s Troubling Livestock Legacy

    Barrie Gilbert

    Washington Governor Christine Gregoire is rumored to be a front-runner for nomination as Secretary of the Interior, where she would oversee millions of acres of public land. But a livestock “pilot” program she instituted in Washington, which fast-tracked the introduction of livestock grazing on Washington Wildlife Areas free of charge to ranchers, while running roughshod…

  • “The secretary regrets the exchange.” Who’s next at the Department of Interior?

    Ken Cole

    Yesterday the Desert Independent reported that on Election Day, after being asked about the treatment of wild horses and allegations made in a recent ProPublica article about the illegal sale of wild horses to a slaughter facility in Mexico, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar turned to the reporter and said “If you set me up like this again,…

  • Salazar blasts Wyoming U.S. Rep. Lummis’ no-sue rider on wolf deal

    Ralph Maughan

    Lummis shows bad faith the day before meeting with Secretary Salazar and Governor Mead- Salazar should have cancelled the meeting in response to Lummis’ actions. Democrats need to to understand they are dealing with opponents with ethics and values worse than Somali pirates. Story: Salazar blasts . . ., but Wyoming, feds near wolf deal.…

  • Deal reached between Wyoming and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

    Ken Cole

    Only 100 wolves outside Yellowstone. Wyoming and the USFWS have reached a deal which would only maintain 10 breeding pairs or 100 wolves outside of Yellowstone National Park. There would also be a “flex” zone which they say would allow wolves to “migrate” to and from Idaho during the winter so that genetic connectivity could…

  • A Hole in the Endangered Species Act. NYT editorial

    Ralph Maughan

    NYT condemns Salazar and his acquiescence to delisting the wolf by legislative rider- A Hole in the Endangered Species Act. New York Times.

  • Western Watersheds Project stands firm. Does not join wolf settlement.

    Ralph Maughan

    The groups that settled have not gained the assurance of anything- Today’s announcement that a number of plaintiffs in the wolf delisting case are seeking a settlement with the Department of Interior they hope Judge Molloy will approve does represent a difference in strategy how to proceed in the current political environment. Three groups, the…

  • Governors seek 'road map' for N. Rockies wolves

    Ken Cole

    Talk about burying the lead, it appears that Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar would back efforts to gut the Endangered Species Act. Ken Salazar met with the governors of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming yesterday and, while Wyoming remains intransigent on the wolf issue, he appears to have sent the message that he supports a legislative…

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