Sentences with phrase «of public lands»

Sustainable Business reported on the advantages of small vs. big solar, questioning the use of public lands for huge industrial solar fields.

The key issue is an incentive package from the village that might include almost free use of public land for the private venture.

It's quite amazing that many of the herbal medicines I use every day in my veterinary practice were ethically and sustainably harvested from a variety of public lands in our area.

Existing Government rules on disposal of public land are currently a missed opportunity to strengthen public trust with a more strategic approach to housing and by delivering social as well as economic value.

In closing, we thank you for your pledge to restore scientific integrity to policy development and specifically to decisions impacting the environment — including the conservation of our public lands.

I suppose it's a public benefit that they included an artist residency, but this seems like an inappropriate (and mostly ugly) use of public land set aside for green space.

Many of these assets exist beyond the balance sheet in the form of public land and real estate, state - owned enterprises and sovereign wealth.

We expect they will seek help for «gateway communities» to use the park's huge amounts of public lands, wild waterways and public trails as an economic advantage.

These areas are unique within our nation's network of public lands.

Several Republican lawmakers want to give much of the public land that is now under federal protection to the states.

In addition, we have extensive experience with permitting and approvals for use of public lands and resources.

October 28, 2016 • The verdict is expected to have sweeping implications on the militia movement and its apparent goal of taking over millions of acres of public lands in the West.

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.

The BLM is committed to a transparent, science - based approach to environmentally responsible management of the public lands.

Tia Nelson, Executive Secretary, Board of Commissioners of Public Lands for the state of Wisconsin and daughter of former Senator and pioneering conservationist Gaylord Nelson will speak about Earth Day and Beyond.

Politicians, environmentalists and industry clash over the leasing of public lands for natural gas drilling on Colorado's rugged Roan Plateau

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

Earlier this year, residents of the southern Saratoga County town of Clifton Park rejected a sale of public land to a local developer.

The lease sales come after Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke removed 17,000 acres of public lands near Yellowstone National Park from the auction block from the March sale in response to intense public pressure from conservation groups and in order to address environmental concerns.

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.

As part of the plan, the BLM, which controls millions of acres of public lands with the Forest Service, will regulate miners, energy developers and ranchers who hold federal leases to work in sage brush wilderness in 10 states.

Some may wonder where full - time RVers can park their homes; according to one of the interviewees, there are campgrounds, certain parking lots, and a lot of public land where it's either legal or at least overlooked enough to allow vehicles to park.

Currently, she holds the office of treasurer on the board of directors of the Public Lands Alliance.

Other experts and conservationists are grim about the future of public lands under McMorris Rodgers.

Tom, those Nativity scenes paid money for the exclusive use of public land parcels.

Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Secretary of State Treasurer State Auditor Superintendent of Public Instruction Commissioner of Insurance Director of Agriculture Commissioner of Public Lands Director of Labor and Industries Chairman of Utilities and Transportation

Fossil fuel development undermines the protection of public lands for future generations and the conservation of species, habitat, and ecological values to which the lands have been consecrated.

The disposition of public land.

Government policy can encourage environmentalism by supporting research and development in alternative energies and by being good stewards of public lands.

The rest are silent on this topic — including papers by groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Alliance for Excellent Education, Association of Public Land Grant Universities, and Institute for College Access and Success.

Within a few years, Prof. Maathai realised that the illegal and corrupt privatisation of public land necessitated a more systemic and comprehensive approach to conservation.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to hand over vast stretches of public land to dirty energy developers, including in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin — home to the nation's largest coal reserves.

Association for Partners of Public Lands Award, Partnership Program / Project, for Alcatraz Visitor Experience Enhancement Project, 2008

Association for Partners of Public Lands Award, Partnership Program / Project, Alcatraz Gardens Restoration Project, 2010

During his 30 years as a chocolatier (wholesale / retail / manufacturer) Ellis continued his environmental pursuits as a long term board member of the Great Smoky Mountains Association, board member and treasurer of the Public Lands Alliance, and research adjunct at the University of Tennessee.

PROSPECT Federal forest managers are turning their eyes on a large swath of public land north of Prospect for an ambitious series of forest restoration projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk, improving stream and wildlife habitat and improving forest he

Elevations in Browns Canyon National Monument range from 7,300 to 10,000 feet, making this a unique mid-elevation area of public land.

NAR commented on this unprecedented withdrawal of public lands.

We stopped the privatization of nearly 300,000 acres of public land on Vancouver Island.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the cowboys have been engaged in a not - so - old - fashioned range war over who can best manage 640 million acres of public lands now owned collectively by the American people.

«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.

The people we're entrusting with taking care of our public land are out contaminating it.

Jamaica State Park 700 + acres of public land along the West River, with a nature center, campground and hiking trails.

However, the majority of the residents and representatives from a variety of groups, including Friends of the Chicago River, Save Our Park and the pastor of a local church, objected to the plan for a variety of reasons, including opposition to the conversion of public land for private use.