Ken Salazar

  • White House to Nominate Colorado’s Harris Sherman to Head Forest Service

    Ralph Maughan

    Another friend of Salazar to be Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment to oversee Forest Service and the NRCS- White House to Nominate Colorado’s Harris Sherman to Head Forest Service. By Courtney Lowery, New West. There might be some confusion because the Forest Service got a new Chief Forester about a month ago.…

  • Salazar's legacy: historical first state-sanctioned hunt of Northern Rockies gray wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar is part of the West’s landed nobility- Salazar’s legacy: historical first state-sanctioned hunt of Northern Rockies gray wolves. Seattle Environmental Policy Examiner. By Jean Williams “The state’s [that is, Idaho] object is to reduce the current wolf population by half.  This is a species that was removed prematurely from ESA protection, under authority by…

  • Salazar, Udall file bill to designate 250,000 acres of Wilderness in Rocky Mtn NP

    Ralph Maughan

    Many people don’t realize the Wilderness Act also applies to national parks– Another point is that Ken Salazar is still a U.S. Senator. It is smart not to resign your old job until you actually confirmed (witness Bill Richardson who is still New Mexico’s governor) – – – – – – Salazar is also pushing…

  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog

    Brian Ertz

  • Industry likes Salazar at Obama Interior, not greens

    Ralph Maughan

    Daniel Patterson’s blog has found a lot of quotes about Ken Salazar- Industry likes Salazar at Obama Interior, not greens. Daniel’s News and Notes. – – – – – So probably (I hope Buffaloed is right, another trial ballon)  a bad Secretary of Interior, and an EPA chief whose toxics record was so bad she…

  • Obama picks Salazar as Interior secretary

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar was not first choice of conservationists- I guess I didn’t really need to write that. On the other hand, he is far better than Bush’s secretaries Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne, both the absolute bottom of the barrel. We’ll now see if he gets a free hand to choose the assistant secretaries  in DOI…

  • Interior Update ~ Salazar: Cows AND Condos and oil & guns in parks & big ag …

    Brian Ertz

    The recent rumors that rancher Ken Salazar is a shoe-in at Interior have flipped on its head many of Obama’s most fervent western supporters’ idea of what the President-elect’s campaign promise for big-‘C’ “Change” might mean.  That campaign slogan’s broad-sweeping allegation had many hopeful that a new outlook, an outlook responsive to Obama’s supporters on…

  • It looks a lot like Ken Salazar as Secretary of Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    He has cancelled events today, Tuesday and Wednesday- He is a pretty traditional Democratic Party kind of nomination (assuming it is him).  He is a Democratic US Senator from Colorado, but Democrats won’t lose the seat because the Democratic governor has the power to appoint a replacement. Salazar is Hispanic, satisfying a category that was…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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