Ex-Dept of Interior Auditor Says He Was Told to Be Lax on Oil Fees
Another DOI outrage has been revealed by the new congress.
Story in the New York Times. By Edmund L. Andrews.
You can bet DOI employees were told to be lax on a lot of other things besides collecting fees from the oil companies on your public land!
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Update. What a day for expose’ of the Department of Interior!
Report Says Interior Official Overrode Work of Scientists. By Felicity Barranger. New York Times. Here is the Inspector General’s report on what Ms. McDonald was up to.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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