Showing posts with label National Landscape Conservation System Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Landscape Conservation System Act. Show all posts
April 9, 2009

Solving Congress

›
Remember the days when our elected representatives to Congress would attempt to accomplish something by actually introducing a bill, debatin...
April 7, 2009

Public Land Mismanagement

›
Environmental, fiscal and economic irresponsibility in the name of protection. Terry L. Anderson and Reed Watson Forbes.com Commentary ...

We must stop collaborating with environmentalists

›
READER'S VIEW LANDS BILL BY LENORE BARRETT Idaho Statesman L and ownership was the compelling force that brought people to America in th...
March 30, 2009

Lost In An Energy Wilderness

›
Energy Policy: The House approves a Senate-passed omnibus bill that puts 2 million more acres of energy-rich land off-limits. We need a gove...

Obama to sign lands bill before 5 days of comment

›
Stephen Dinan Washington Times P resident Obama on Monday will sign the omnibus land conservation bill - yet again breaking his vow to allow...

To the victors

›
Letters to the editor Los Angeles Times Re “Major wilderness bill OKd,” March 26 T he Times' photo and story are so misleading. You have...
March 26, 2009

Wilderness protection bill gets Congress' OK

›
The legislation gives maximum federal protection to more than 2 million acres in nine states, including more than 700,000 acres in Californi...
March 19, 2009

Lands bill displays Senate egoism over common sense

›
Senate defeats five Coburn amendments, accepts one Press Release Senator Tom Coburn M.D. (R-OK) (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn...
March 18, 2009

Senate poised to move quickly on Omnibus

›
Procedural maneuver designed to nullify House vote By Noelle Straub and Eric Bontrager Environment & Energy Daily T he Senate today will...
March 12, 2009

Wilderness preservation bill narrowly defeated

›
Washington Post March 12, 2009 Washington -- A bill to designate 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness was narrowly defeate...
March 11, 2009

Public Lands Bill Defeated in House

›
By Kate Phillips New York Times F or now, the mega-public lands bill that would have greatly expanded public wilderness areas, parks and mil...
March 5, 2009

Extensive lands protection bill could thwart new energy development

›
By SCOTT STREATER New York Times T he 111th Congress is poised to usher in the largest expansion of the nation's wilderness in a generat...

Public Lands Bill Threatens Energy, Economy

›
Written by William F. Jasper New American W ith our economy already staggering under an avalanche of debt, taxes, regulations, and the high ...
March 1, 2009

Future of long-sought Utah lands bills in question

›
By Lee Davidson Deseret News W hen the Senate convened this year, it quickly passed a much-ballyhooed package of hundreds of public lands bi...
February 22, 2009

Collect a rock, lose your car

›
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK Ominous forfeiture provisions in new bill restrict use of federal land WorldNetDaily This souvenir could land you i...

Touch a rock and get mugged by the feds

›
by J.D. Tuccille Examiner.com A few years ago, I was backpacking in an Arizona canyon where the sun didn't reach our camp until well af...
February 4, 2009

A win for wilderness

›
EDITORIAL The Senate has passed a public lands bill that will benefit California, among other states. Although the legislation contains a fe...
January 15, 2009

Senate passes sweeping public lands package

›
Sally Schuff Feedstuffs I n one of its first votes of the new Congress, the Senate passed a major public land omnibus bill 73-21 on Jan. 15....
January 14, 2009

Pork-filled 'wilderness' bill gets Senate approval

›
EDITORIAL Las Vegas Review-Journal C alling a rare Sunday procedural vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., moved the U.S. Senate ...
January 12, 2009

Federal wilderness protection for California land moves forward

›
The Senate clears the way for passage of legislation that would expand wilderness protection to more than 2 million acres of public land nat...