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Culled out
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task…
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Business Leaders Applaud Effort To Require Disclosure of Taxpayer Subsidies to Lawyers Who Sue Government
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced in Congress Yesterday “A Small But Important Step Toward Long-Overdue Legal Reform”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2010) — Wealthy activist groups that sue the government and then…
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Energy groups relieved sage grouse won’t be listed
An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and oil and gas industries.
Those industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but…
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Tester Bill discussion in Deerlodge for the public.
Sen. Jon Tester says U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Deerlodge Saturday May 6, 2010 at 10:00 am at the Powell County Community Center to discuss the Tester S-1470 Forest Jobs Restoration Act/ Wilderness Bill.
Public input is welcome
Location of the Community…
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Bill would limit national monuments in Montana
Montana’s congressman has introduced a bill that would require congressional approval before the president could create any more national monuments within the state.
The bill by Republican Denny Rehberg was introduced in the U.S. House Thursday. It was prompted by a leaked Department of Interior memo that listed…
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New regional forester discusses agency challenges
The new forester for the U.S. Forest Service’s northern region says the agency is facing several challenges, including beetle-killed pine trees and snow-free watersheds.
Leslie Weldon was named to succeed Thomas Tidwell in the post last year, overseeing 15 national forests and 4 national grasslands in…
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Forest studies Crooked Creek Plan
Climbing along the eastern shoulder of Big Pryor Mountain, Crooked Creek Road has been scorched by fire and washed out by rain.
Under an environmental assessment now under review, the Beartooth Ranger District is proposing to repair about five miles of the road that has been the…
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Forest revamps anti-fire project
A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still doesn’t answer the environmental group’s concerns.
The Beaver Creek landscape management project could treat about 14,000 acres on public lands in…
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Judge grants weeklong extension on sage grouse finding
A judge in Boise, Idaho, has extended the deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to submit an endangered species finding for the greater sage grouse.
The deadline had been Friday. Attorneys for Fish and Wildlife requested a one-week extension after agency Director…
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Group sues over pine tree petition
An environmental group has sued seeking federal protection for a high-elevation pine tree devastated in some places in the Rocky Mountains by beetle infestations and fungus.
The Natural Resources Defense Council petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in December 2008 to list the whitebark pine…
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