Sentences with phrase «western public lands»

Conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter have been capturing fine art photographs of wildflowers across America's Western public lands — from Death Valley to Colorado's San Juan Mountains — for more than 20 years.

«While he continues to paint himself as a modern Teddy Roosevelt, his very short voting record shows him repeatedly siding with industry,» says the Sierra Club's Matthew Kirby, who works on western public lands issues.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

Scottish theologian Ronald Gregor Smith said in 1966: «The tide of secularism has swept over the whole of the western world, the world that was once called Christendom, and beyond that it has reached into every land... It has flooded over every island and the remotest parts of the world».5 No longer can it be said that Christian beliefs, values and aspirations are shaping our public life.

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He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.

The Rocky Mountains, commonly referred to as the «Rockies», are a mountainous region that stretch 3,000 miles from the northern-most part of British Columbia in Western Canada, to New Mexico in the Southwest United States.The striking landscape is surrounded by public parks and forest lands, which over the years have drawn in mass amounts of tourism, particularly -LSB-...]

From the mid-1990s almost a million fox baits were dropped by plane every year across public lands in the south - west of WA, as part of a biodiversity project called Western Shield.

Elevating renewable energy development to a departmental priority, the Interior Department «worked with industry, state, tribal, and local partners to approve 34 projects on public lands in western states and to build an offshore regulatory framework in the Atlantic,» Secretary Salazar stated.

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.

The BLM already has identify 21 million acres of public land in 11 western states that would be a good fit for wind energy projects, 29 million acres in six southwestern states for solar energy developments, and 140 million acres in western states and Alaska for geothermal energy exploration.

Recently Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R - UT) introduced a bill that would have transferred more than 3 million acres of public land in the Western U.S. to the states.

In 2017, the BLM auctioned off more than a million acres of public lands for fracking in six Western states.

A federal court today overturned a coal mine expansion and eliminated a loophole permitting road construction for coal mining in western Colorado's roadless public forest lands.

Although several large - scale solar projects in California have sputtered (including two from BrightSource) and technical challenges are considerable, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a move in early July to prioritize more than 300,000 acres of public lands in six Western states for use by utility - scale solar plants, with nearly half of that acreage in California.