The list of species the federal government has been more or less forced to consider for ESA protection has been growing longer and longer over the years, and yet it acts very slowly, complaining that species are being added at too fast a rate. Much of the agency’s tiny budget was eaten up responding to […]
Continue Reading →Bush Administration Had Opened 110,000 Acres Near Pristine Areas to Energy Exploration-
Interior Secretary Cancels Leases on Federal Land in Utah. Bush Administration Had Opened 110,000 Acres Near Pristine Areas to Energy Exploration.By Juliet Eilperin.Washington Post Staff Writer.
April Clauson reported this in a comment earlier. Above is the full story.
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Reaction to Salazar pick in NYT-
Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick . John M. Broder.
Oh god! Salazar showed up wearing a cowboy hat. Makes you sick.
Well everyone should hold their breath and count until the “lesser” nominations.
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Salazar decribed as a “moderate” and a “broker”-
From WaPo. Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior. By Juliet Eilperin, Phil Rucker and Dan Morgan.
That is so offensive to hear him described as “a fifth-generation Coloradan whose family settled in the West before the United States’ founding and has ranched and farmed on […]
Continue Reading →Grijalva steps up to the plate and goes to bat against another Bush Interior “midnight regulation” aimed at looting sacred water for the Peabody Western Coal Company while tribes perform spiritual ceremonies.
Dang, if you listen close – that sounds like a John Prine endorsement to me !
Continue Reading →Forest Service May Move to Interior. Some See Agency As Out of Place Under the USDA. By Christopher Lee. Washington Post Staff Writer.
While this may seem new, this is one of the oldest controversies in the history of American conservation.
The Forest Service began at the end of the 19th century as the […]
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