Sentences with phrase «national public lands»

This honor comes in anticipation of National Public Lands Day on Sept. 28, when people celebrate by volunteering in their parks and public lands, and the anniversary of the date when the Presidio became a national park site on October 1, 1994.

Volunteer Service Opportunities Give back to your national parks through volunteer activities celebrating National Park Week (April 16 — 24), National Trails Day (June 4), National Public Lands Day (September 24), or any day of the year!

«Bike Your Park Day is a great way to celebrate National Public Lands Day,» said Krista Sherwood with the National Park Service's Conservation & Outdoor Recreation Programs.

People throughout the world will ride to or within parks and public lands during the second annual Bike Your Park Day on September 30, also National Public Lands Day.

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That's what many ranchers and sympathizers opposing federal control of public lands in the West concluded after the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

An executive in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints entitled his address, «The Integrity of Obeying the Law: I Have an Individual Responsibility»; the Vice President for National Issues of the National Audubon Society urged citizens to demand that the government stop giving away our public lands.5 You get the picture.

Among those signing on are Bill Hybels (pastor of the influential Willow Creek Community Church), Al Mohler (President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Stephanie Summers (CEO at the Center for Public Justice), Samuel Rodriguez (President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference), Russell Moore (head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission), and Moore's ERLC predecessor Richard Land.

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«It is one day with the potential for motivating sustained benefits by encouraging visitors to explore their national parks and public lands by bicycle.

«The whole sheep range out there, why, that whole country's plastered with poison,» says crusty Paul Maxwell, former trapper and bulldozer operator and now president of the National Council of Public Land Users.

But while neighborhood groups sometimes have helped raise money for such amenities as playgrounds and field houses, perhaps the district's most valuable alliance has been with the non-profit Trust for Public Land, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open spLand, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open spland for parks and open space.

In October 2015, Mass Audubon was awarded Land Trust Accreditation by the Land Trust Alliance, providing important independent confirmation that Mass Audubon's policies, practices, and programs meet or exceed national standards for excellence, uphold public trust, and ensure that our conservation actions will have permanence.

Then late last year, Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit conservation organization, bought a vacant building west of the park and held it for the Park District.

Bob Bellafiore, a former Pataki administration official and regular participant on our weekly «Insiders» segment on «Capital Tonight» has landed a new job as vice president of Partner Services and Strategic Initiatives at National Heritage Academies, A Michigan - based public charter school organization.

A study by The Trust For Public Land shows that 99 percent of New York City residents are within an 10 minute walk of a park — a much higher number than the national average of 54 percent.

Do you mean selling title to public lands: e.g. National Forests or BLM land in the US, Crown lands in Britain or Canada?

Benepe plans to take a senior position for a national nonprofit, the Trust For Public Land, whose mission is to «create close to home parks in and near cities.»

Volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in clean up events at 135 state parks, historic sites and public lands, including sites operated by the Department of Environmental Conservation, the National Park Service and municipal parks

The chamber on Tuesday voted 58 -0-margin to approve a measure that would prevent cities from requiring a permit before a group could sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance on public land.

In the same vein, the Senate has voted in favour of removal of the NYSC Decree, Land Use Act, Public Complaints Commission Act and the National Security Agencies Act from constitution.

Fashola also said that Lagos State had refused to provide land for the National Housing Programme, adding that it was important for his ministry to respond in order to ensure that members of the public were not misled by deliberate or inadvertent misrepresentation of facts.

«This remarkable discovery illustrates the importance of America's public lands as places where scientists have access to perform research that benefits everyone,» said Cindy Ott - Jones, Superintendent of Big Bend National Park.

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

Another beef environmentalists have with the bill is that it would exempt decisions made or actions taken with regard to hunting and fishing on federal lands from federal environmental review and public disclosure regulations established under 1969's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

In July 2016, Representative Rob Bishop (R — UT), who is also the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R — UT) rolled out their Utah Public Lands Initiative, which included plans for what is now Bears Ears National Monument.

That increased domestic oil production should come from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands, for example, as well as off the Eastern seaboard.

If McMorris Rodgers is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would govern the management of more than 500 million acres of federal public lands, including more than 400 national parks.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

«Current federal policy that allows the mining industry to operate next to America's national icons and against the will of local communities must be changed,» said Jane Danowitz, Pew's U.S. public lands program director.

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Most of the federal agencies responsible for managing public lands and wildlife are housed within the Department of the Interior, including the National Park Service; the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages lands for recreation, mining and energy development; and the Fish and Wildlife Service, which works to recover endangered species.

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In addition, camera traps recorded whether the animals» prey sources were more likely encountered in the higher housing densities or in more wild, public land areas like national forestlands.

«Information on climate change ranges in geographic and temporal scales, and is often hard to relate to forest management and planning,» said Patricia Butler, the report's lead author and a climate change outreach specialist with the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, a collaboration of the Forest Service, Michigan Technological University, the Trust for Public Land, the University of Minnesota, and the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement.

In July, he resigned from the Republican National Committee because the party platform included language supporting the disposal of public lands to state control.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

Desert Research Center will organize a one - day festival in cooperation with the UNCCD National Focal Point Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, counterparts Ministries, the public and private sectors.

Leigh Welling, the National Park Service's Climate Change Response Program chief and one of the agency's NAWPA representatives, said that in a warming world, it's critical that public lands and their ecosystems remain intact.

«This would roll back 100 years of public lands progress,» he said in a teleconference hosted by the National Wildlife Federation.

«This would cause Teddy Roosevelt to roll over in his grave if he knew what the Republican National Committee's position was in respect to our public lands.»

As a nationally recognized leader in higher education, Dr. Ross has presented seminars, workshops and lectures in the areas of higher education leadership, budget, finance and administration to a number of universities and national organizations including the Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr College.

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It is announced that the state of Utah will spend several millions of dollars suing the U.S. federal government in hopes of having 32 million acres of National Forests and BLM land — our public lands — deeded over to the counties and state of Utah.

Impact Aid provides funding to school districts that have lost local tax revenue (which traditionally funds public schools) due to the presence of federal tax - exempt land, such as military installations, Native American reservations, or national parks.

The Federal Lands Highway Program provides access to and within national forests, national parks, Indian reservations and other public lands by preparing plans and contracts, supervising construction facilities, and conducting bridge inspections and surLands Highway Program provides access to and within national forests, national parks, Indian reservations and other public lands by preparing plans and contracts, supervising construction facilities, and conducting bridge inspections and surlands by preparing plans and contracts, supervising construction facilities, and conducting bridge inspections and surveys.

In 2015, she received the Excellence in Frontline Public Health Service Award for Exemplary Partnership and Support of ATSDR's National Brownfields / Land Reuse Health Initiative.

Going forward, public transportation projects serving national parks and other federal lands remain eligible for funding under the Federal Lands Transportation Program administered by the Federal Highway Administralands remain eligible for funding under the Federal Lands Transportation Program administered by the Federal Highway AdministraLands Transportation Program administered by the Federal Highway Administration.

Importantly, the Administration's surface transportation reauthorization proposal, the GROW AMERICA Act, would build on current support for public and tribal lands, including creating a new program to support construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of large, nationally significant transportation infrastructure within or accessing federal or tribal lands, including national parks and forests.