Mark Rey

  • More last minute Administration swipe at the economy and the environment

    Ralph Maughan

    Mark Rey set to hamstring Western national forests and counties allowing developers to pave Forest Service logging roads for remote subdivisions- The “Darth Vader” of the national forests is poised to strike again during the Administration’s deaththrows. Former timber lobbyist Rey, who bosses the Forest Service, will try to set in stone the plan to…

  • Obama lambastes closed-door Plum Creek land talks

    Ralph Maughan

    Yesterday, we discussed this massive burden Mark Rey has just dropped on Montana counties in the form of access to remote second home sites. This is an indication that Obama may be good on land use issues. Earlier he blasted the Cline Mine and related proposals in British Columbia that threaten Montana’s Flathead River and…

  • Former Larry Craig aide and timber lobbyist, uses federal position to help access to trophy home sites deep in the forest

    Ralph Maughan

    We’ve talked about Mary Rey before. He is under secretary for natural resources and environment in USDA, and thus oversees the U.S. Forest Service. Before that he learned the ropes from none other than Larry Craig and became a lobbyist for the timber industry. In the past, he has barely escaped jail for defying court…

  • Mark Rey walks

    Ralph Maughan

    U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey walked out of federal court a free man Wednesday in Missoula, wearing not an orange inmate’s jumpsuit but the gray business suit with American flag lapel pin he had donned for his contempt hearing. Ag chief cleared of contempt. By John Cramer the Missoulian The federal judge wasn’t happy, but…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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

Raveena Tandon

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