Tag: Kempthorne

  • Regarding Kempthorne's last minute regs to weaken the ESA

    Obama has already said he will void it (but that is not always easy to do)- Feds Rush To Ease Endangered Species Rules. 15 reviewers, 200,000 comments, 32 hours to go through all of them. by Dina Cappiello. Common Dreams.

  • Bush, Kempthorne up to last minute mischief

    Beware, the long nightmare is not over yet- The New York Times describes and warns of anti-public land and anti-conservation actions underway or contemplated by the worst Administration in American history (my view) in their last 2 1/2 months in office. Last-Minute Mischief. Editorial by the New York Times. – – – – – Examples…

  • Rocky Barker on who will be the next Secretary of Interior?

    This is the big question in the interior West- So, naturally it doesn’t get covered on TV or the debates. Barkers blog. Who is the West’s next federal landlord? Idaho Statesman. I guess I’m not an “independent observer,” but Secretary Kempthorne did a good job as Secretary of Interior only in comparison with that Secretary…

  • Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept.

    So, is this what “drill, baby drill” means? 😉 As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual…

  • Idaho Statesman: A last-minute rewrite of Endangered Species Act regulations is rash and futile

    A last-minute rewrite of Endangered Species Act regulations is rash and futile. Editorial by the Idaho Statesman. This rewrite, or gutting of the Act, is going to disappear if the right candidate wins the presidency.

  • Kempthorne unveils species banking system

    Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne unveiled the Fish and Wildlife Service’s new “credit” and “banking” system for threatened and endangered species protections. The idea is that federal agencies will be allowed to take actions that inflict damage to protected species populations on federal land if they have accrued enough “credits” from conservation programs on private…

  • Wolf hunters urged to use restraint

    Wolf hunters urged to use restraint. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star-Tribune Some of the supporters of turning 87% of Wyoming into a free-fire zone for wolves seem to be having second thoughts. And its just not true that there is no wolf habitat in Wyoming’s wolf-are-vermin-zone. The Daniel Pack has formed and reformed time after…

  • Conservationists Request Investigations of Reported Mexican Wolf Baiting

    Conservation groups have taken action after the story about ranch hands luring wolves in so they will kill calves, so the wolves will then killed by the government “to protect the livestock.” For Immediate Release, January 3, 2008 Contact: Michael Robinson, (575) 534-0360 Conservationists Request Investigations of Reported Wolf Baiting SILVER CITY, N.M.— Fifteen conservation…

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