Sentences with phrase «public land»

The Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to list the greater sage grouse was predicated on the assumption that the public land management plans would be implemented and would reverse the decline of the greater sage - grouse.

As a staffer, she dealt with issues like energy and the environment, the postal service and how to manage parks and public land.

«We're already working with public land managers and private landowners to make use of this valuable new information,» said Scott Bearer, Senior Conservation Scientist with The Nature Conservancy and one of the assessment's co-authors.

«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 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.

Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest.

The challenge was not only to purchase artifacts, but to have the seller admit their provenance on public land.

Now a decadelong struggle over the fate of thousands of acres of public land on the Roan has come to a head, and just in time for the hotly contested race for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat.

Over protests from conservation and citizen groups, on August 14 the BLM auctioned off energy leases for all of the remaining public land on the Roan encompassing 54,631 acres (221 square kilometers).

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

In your look at the advance of industrial - scale solar generation across public land in the south - west US, you focused on...

On nearby public land, these same beds have yielded scores of fossils of dinosaurs, but no paleontologists are known to have scoured this section of rangeland, settled in the late 1800s.

The death is a major concern for conservationists, biologists and public land managers, for the whitebark pine supports the entire ecosystem.

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.

Mulroy capped off the»90s by helping to shape the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, which cleared the way for still more growth.

And they compared trees that were on growers» land with those on public land, thinking that how the trees were managed might have some effect.

More than 100 USCRN stations now operate across the U.S.. Each sits on public land off - limits for development, and each includes wind gauges and three duplicate thermometers.

Weckerly, who lives in North Dakota's central region, said that there's a good spot of public land near him where a route could go.

But pushing a transmission line through protected public land would almost certainly provoke outrage from environmentalists.

None of Minnkota's four proposed routes go through public land.

Wary that the transmission line could lower their property values, many of the landowners point to cheaper property that already has recognized rights of way or the possibility of using public land.

When Obama emphasized his «all of the above» energy plan, it sparked a combative back - and - forth duel with a subtext about who would create more jobs by permitting the private sector to develop fossil fuels on public land and on the outer continental shelf.

«Just to let you know,» Gabriel says, sensitive to the impression the gun makes, «it's public land, so I open - carry.»

Mantello said the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act prohibits the Canal Corp. from selling public land for less than fair market value for any development other than a park or public access.

The mayor, then public advocate, also repeatedly criticized Mayor Bloomberg's land lease program plan, which would lease public land to private developers and require that 20 percent of developments be dedicated to affordable housing.

The building is currently owned by the city, and will be jointly owned by the Cooper Square Committee and ACF after its expected approval as part of the city's public land use review process, according to Herrick.

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.

Winthrop Campus students worked with The Trust for Public Land's Playgrounds Program to brainstorm ideas and, in the process, got to learn about designing a playground.

Assembly Environmental Committee Chair Robert Sweeney is sponsoring a bill to create a $ 5 billion environmental bond act to promote clean water, clean air and to preserve public land.

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.»

They'll discuss a range of environmental issues including expanding the bottle bill, brownfields, access to public land, global warming and much more.

«The Empire Outlets will transform the underutilized public land on the North Shore of Staten Island next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal,» officials with the city's regional council wrote in their application for funding.

Ottaway is quick to give Kitty Brown — then Kitty Vermilyea — primary credit for getting the organization up and running in 1987, after attending a conference sponsored by the Dutchess County Land Trust and the Trust for Public Land (TPL).

Located in an Erie County park and overlooking the Niagara River, the Tribute Garden is the first permanent Garden of its kind located on public land in the United States, and both the site itself and $ 50,000 in funding for completion of Phases I and II of the project were donated by Erie County.

The City Council has the final say on any zoning change or public land disposition, but it usually defers to the wishes of the local councilman — which is where Mr. Díaz's power in the County machine becomes crucial to a developer.

The Johnsburg Town Board has asked the Olympic Region Development Authority for $ 40,000 for the use of nearly 200 acres of public land at the Ski Bowl.

The mayor's lawsuit contends that, prior to the Syracuse Common Council vote to sell 28 acres of public land to COR, company officials made «false statements» promising not to seek tax breaks on the harbor development.

If the 1961 law were found to be invalid, the development might fall into a category called a major concession — defined by the Department of City Planning as any privately run enterprise bigger than 15,000 square feet sited on public land — and thus subject to another public review process.

They transferred ownership of Kennedy Square in 2011 to a nonprofit corporation that was affiliated with Upstate and directed by its leaders, yet exempt from state rules governing the disposition of public land.

The public land bank could help private real estate agents in the city by fixing broken down, vacant houses that are hard to sell, Ruzicka said.

At 9 a.m., tenants and housing activists demand no public land or removal of deed restrictions should go to for - profit developers, front of City Hall gates, 1 - 15 Centre St., Manhattan.

The Natural Heritage Trust provided $ 2 million from the proceeds of a donation by the Trust for Public Land, which helped orchestrate the purchase of 525 acres from KeySpan Energy to create the park while returning 300 adjacent acres to active agricultural production.

Carter Strickland, New York State Director of The Trust for Public Land, said, «The natural beauty on the North Fork of Long Island is something to behold and providing greater access at Hallock State Park Preserve is allowing our communities to better connect with what makes this part of New York State so magnificent and unique.

Property developers would benefit from Transport for London's stock of public land but London's shortage of affordable homes will not be seriously addressed.

The comptroller claimed at a Thursday morning meeting of the Association for a Better New York, a group of the city's financial leaders, that the administration had missed out on funding and opportunities by failing to start a public land bank to manage and develop the 1,175 vacant city - owned properties across the five boroughs.

The Trust for Public Land is honored to have collaborated with Governor Cuomo and State Parks Commissioner Rose Harvey to further ensure these healthy, livable communities remain vibrant through the connection to the outdoors.»

While rezoning for the site is still going through the public land use review process, the plan has been approved by Community Board 4, Bronx Borough President Reuben Diaz Jr,, and the City Planning Commission.

More is needed including, in due course, looking at public land and the use of pension funds to drive this essential growth.

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.

It would be recalled that Nnaji had petitioned EFCC alleging that Chime's administration allocated plots of land at the Enugu International Conference Centre, ICC, to his associates, altered the 2012 supplementary budget without the approval of the House and conspired with his associates to allocate public land to themselves within Enugu metropolis.