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• Interior Secretary To Continue Energy Embargo on Federal Lands

  
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  On May 7, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee  on the President’s 2014 Budget Request. In an otherwise unremarkable and perfunctory presentation, Jewell’s testimony provides further insight into the Obama administration’s hostilities to low-cost, reliable ...
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• Environment Foundation: Highest Donation in History

  
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  EF made the largest grant to protect the Thompson Divide
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• Optimism for Congress to Break Stalemate, Protect New Public Lands

  
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  As the 112 th Congress gaveled to a close last January, many wondered if Washington D.C.’s toxic political environment would continue to compromise popular land conservation bills. Setting aside lands for hunters and anglers, hikers and backpackers, mountain bikers and horseback riders is a uniquely American ...
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• Popular eastern Idaho rock climbing spot threatened with permanent closure

  
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  The federal Bureau of Land Management may permanently close a popular climbing site in southeastern Idaho, over opposition from local rock climbers who argue the plan is too restrictive and was pushed through without stakeholder input. The 400-acre area known as Castle Rocks has been closed off and on to climbers ...
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• BLM Spending $100K to Increase Knowledge of Ethical Behavior--Among ATV Drivers

  
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  The federal government will spend $100,000 over five years on a Bureau of Land Management program to "increase knowledge of ethical behavior" among people using off-road vehicles. “The purpose of this project is to increase knowledge of and conformance with the Utah Ride On Campaign message, and reduce incidents ...
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• Governors refuse to return money to U.S. Forest Service

  
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  Gov. Matt Mead is refusing to return or repay more than $200,000 sought by the U.S.Forest Service because of federal sequester budget cuts. In an April 19 letter to U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas L. Tidwell, Mead said $197,225 in Secure Rural Schools money was paid to 19 Wyoming counties on Jan. 16, well before the ...
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• Rocky Mountain Front bill remains priority for Baucus

  
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  Passing legislation that would protect federal land in the North Fork of the Flathead and along the Rocky Mountain Front will be priorities for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus in his remaining months in office, the Montana senator said Tuesday, when he announced his retirement. The North Fork Watershed Protection Act would ...
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• Wonderful public lands maps organize knowledge of New Mexico

  
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  Map geeks live in Albuquerques North Valley. Their home is a modest suite in an even more modest one-story brown stucco office building on North Fourth Street. Even the sign for the Public Lands Interpretive Association is modest. Fourth Street is commonly thought to be the route of El Camino Real, or Chihuahua ...
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• Key U.S. lawmaker opposes Navy takeover of California’s Johnson Valley riding area

  
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  In a blow to U.S. Navy efforts to expand a military base into the popular Johnson Valley off-highway vehicle riding area in Southern California, a key federal lawmaker is offering a proposal to block the effort, the American Motorcyclist Association reports. The Department of the Navy wants to expand a Marine Corps ...
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• Some pros and cons on new Forest Service budget process

  
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  U.S. Forest Service officials directing big projects on the Bridger-Teton National Forest are no longer confined to drawing money from specific program budgets.  By pooling budgets, officials say, they can direct funds to where they’re needed. That means the national forest has been able to treat more acreage ...
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• Forest Service-sponsored GreenSchools! Honored by Education Department

  
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  Twenty schools registered as GreenSchools! through the Project Learning Tree /U.S. Forest Service program are among 64 schools and 14 school districts honored April 22 as by the U.S. Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School. The Education Department gave the awards for the schools’ exemplary efforts ...
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• Transition to 2nd Growth Reality or Folly

  
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  Back in the heydays taxpayers paid a subsidy of $12,000-$36,000 per Tongass timber job. Based on more recent Forest Service accounting information, this subsidy has grown during the last decade to a staggering $224,000-$510,000/job a nearly 1,400% increase. How can this be? Simply, the Forest Service kept spending ...
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• Public lands bills being held up by disagreements from delegates, BLM

  
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  Nevada lawmakers have anticipated that the chief challenge to getting many public lands bills through Congress this year is the willingness of a Republican-led House to pass legislation that balances federal land transfers with wilderness designations. But disagreements on the home front and between presumed allies ...
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• Feds release environmental assessment of big Utah land swap

  
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  A long-anticipated land exchange between the state and federal governments lurched a little closer toward the finish line Monday with the release of a draft Environmental Assessment of a proposed deal that would give the Bureau of Land Management nearly 46,000 of state acres with conservation and recreational ...
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• Forest Service begins public review of ski area water rights rules

  
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  The Forest Service on this week launched the first of several public meetings and forums as it outlines a contentious push to secure water rights used by ski areas on public land. "There is a fundamental difference of opinion that will be hard to overcome," said Jim Pena, the Forest Services acting deputy chief, ...
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• Bishop seeks grand bargain on public lands

  
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  Tired of the gridlock over how to manage federal lands, Rep. Rob Bishop is attempting to bring together all sides of the issue to find common ground to either preserve or drill. The Utah Republican is one of Congress’ top cheerleaders for oil and gas development and a dogged critic of environmentalists — but he ...
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