The recently released Department of Interior Fiscal Year 2012 Economic Report shows that Grazing on BLM Public Lands Accounts for only 0.41% of the nation’s livestock receipts and only 17,000 jobs. In contrast, recreation accounts for 372,000 jobs and contributes $45 billion to the economy.
According to the report, the BLM permits […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Note: A number of updates have been added to this story as other news media picked this up. Lots of egg on the BLMs face! RM
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Nov. 30, 2011. This morning Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a scientific […]
187,157 square miles of Alaskan land and (mostly) ocean to be for the bears-
U.S. Firms Up ‘Critical Habitat’ for Polar Bears. By Felicity Barringer. The Green Blog in the New York Times. Here is the web page […]
Continue Reading →What has this society come to?
Construction of the Ivanpah Solar plant starts.
Clear the land of life for power generation that could be achieved by installing solar panels on rooftops where it is used. The bulldozers, fences, and powerlines are next.
The science shows that half of these endangered desert tortoises will die […]
Continue Reading →This must mean that Interior boss Salazar gets the ax-
Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock. By Frank Rick. New York Times.
The President asked us to pray. So I ask God that the President fire Ken Salazar.
The President says he would have “fired Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive” (currently yachting […]
Continue Reading →The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder
A revealing article in Rolling Stone points out how Obama and Salazar did nothing to reform the well known corruption at MMS. It is expected […]
Continue Reading →The leak started 30 days ago, oil as thick as paint is washing up on the shores of Louisiana and there are plumes of oil deep underwater poisoning the ocean and threatening the Florida Keys and the east coast. There have been many attempts to stop the leak and it appears that it won’t be […]
Continue Reading →Chris Oynes will step down
Interior official who oversees offshore drilling for MMS resigns.
Washington Post
