Reps. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat, and Dwight Evans, a Pennsylvania Democrat, penned a joint OpEd about the need to remove confederate symbols from their «place of reverence
on federal public land.»
August 24, 2017 • Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says some National Monuments
protecting federal public land designated during the Obama administration will be downsized, including a big reduction of Utah's Bears Ears.
Withdrawing plans to allow development of oil shale and tar sands on 800,000 acres of
federal public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government
transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.
The 41 day anti-federal government occupation capped decades of disputes over
how federal public lands are managed in the West.
Located next door to the King Salmon Airport, the King Salmon Visitor Center provides information on the
many federal public lands of Southwest Alaska, particularly those in the Bristol Bay area.
The fossil fuel industry has already started to change the face of the Western Arctic — on state and private land near Nuiqsut and, increasingly, in the largely still
untouched federal public land in the Reserve — with oil and gas drilling, to the detriment of public health in Ahtuangaruak's community.
Dec. 2016: The Department of the Interior holds mineral rights lease sales of a lesser known Arctic
Alaska federal public lands holding: the National Petroleum Reserve — Alaska (NPR - A).
Reports indicate that 20 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to fossil fuel development
from federal public lands and waters.
Natural Resources and Environmental Law Clinic — Students represent public interest clients in environmental litigation related to
federal public land protection.
When an energy company wants to drill for oil, mine for coal or frack for natural gas
on federal public lands, it has to bid for the right to lease those minerals, and then obtain permits to set up its operations there after an environmental review is conducted and other regulations are met.
December 4, 2017 • President Trump announced on Monday in Utah that his administration will dramatically shrink two national monument designations that
protect federal public lands.
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.
But what's most troubling to Meadows and others is language in the bill saying that «any requirements imposed by [the Wilderness Act] shall be implemented only insofar as they facilitate or enhance the original primary purpose or purposes for which
the federal public lands or land unit was established and do not materially interfere with or hinder such purpose or purposes.»
«Recreational fishing and hunting are important and vital recreational activities on
our federal public lands,» concludes the Wilderness Society, «but the anti-Wilderness provisions of H.R. 2834 should not be allowed to become law.»
The pipeline also crosses recreation,
federal public lands, state parks and forests where thousands of workers are employed in the tourism sector.
«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and
federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.
Oil and gas leasing on
federal public lands is a major contributor to global warming in the United States.