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BLM

House legislation streamlines permit process for improvements on public lands

August 8, 2017 1

...the bill includes provisions that would authorize the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to enter into cooperative agreements with private parties to promote the role of volunteers in trail maintenance. American Horse Council Congress…

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Colorado native, former NRA liaison considered for key USDA position

July 30, 2017 2

...the Trump Administration is tasked with reintroducing Americans to the fact that national forests exist to support agribusiness, such as timber and grazing, and are not just tourist attractions and sanctuaries for spotted owls.  by Marjorie Haun The U.S. Forest…

Environment

Hanging Lake: Iconic Colorado trail threatened by excessive tourist traffic

July 24, 2017 1

Hanging Lake is one of Colorado’s true gems, a turquoise splendor whose beauty is being eroded, officials believe, by a massive increase in user numbers over the past several years. Chad Abraham Aspen Daily News The suspension of Hanging Lake?…

BLM

‘Authoritarian’ overreach one reason for land management agencies shakeup

July 17, 2017 0

It is a perennial issue in the West, because access to national forests, parks, wildlife refuges, and BLM land sometimes requires crossing private land. That means relationships between those landowners and the federal agencies is delicate, and vital. Greg Walcher…

BLM

Despite agreement, Montana helicopter fleet stays grounded in busy wildfire season

July 15, 2017 4

“Regarding the issue relative to the Department of Agriculture, there appears to be an ongoing refusal on the part of the federal government and the Forest Service to allow our Montana (MT-205) helicopters to be classified as approved aircraft for…

Environment

Catastrophic wildfires bring urgency to Resilient Federal Forests Act

June 27, 2017 4

Such destructive and ever-larger wildfires are a perennial event, and each year various agencies must brace--under tight budgets and limited resources--for long, busy months of fighting these fires. Proof that bans on logging, clearing, and grazing are partly responsible for…

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Aspen’s water right gets walloped by ‘wilderness’ Karma

May 31, 2017 0

The environmental groups opposing Aspen assert that the city doesn’t need the water, though that is a difficult case to make against any growing city. One opponent says the city is speculating and doesn’t really intend to build the reservoirs,…

BLM

Natural Resources head moves to bring more local control to land, resource policies

May 26, 2017 1

"Our experience has been that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] planners hold very few public meetings where information is given, but not exchanged," said Celeste Maloy, deputy county attorney in Washington County, Utah. "We are briefed but not invited…

Environment

This green group finally gets that restoring a forest requires cutting down trees

May 17, 2017 2

The restoration thinning project outside the city of Cle Elum mirrors numerous projects in forests across the U.S. West, mostly on federal public lands, aimed at preventing wildfires and restoring forest health. The project by a private landowner also represents…

Environment

Berkeley study refutes claim that forests are naturally dense and should be left untouched

May 10, 2017 0

“We went through the data and showed that, in every case, this method estimated that the density of trees was two to three times higher than was the reality,” said Carrie Levine, a Ph.D. student of forest ecology at Berkeley…

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