Showing posts with label land acquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land acquisition. Show all posts
January 20, 2016

Fed Employees Caught Bragging About Federal Land Grabs

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Employee brags they "stole the money from Washington" to push World War II vets off land YouTube clip in which government employe...
October 29, 2013

Coburn attacks National Park Service for wasteful spending while parks themselves fall into disrepair

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By Doug McKelway FoxNews.com T axpayers shell out $52,000 a year to maintain the home of Black History Month founder Carter Woodson. Y...
September 23, 2013

Landowner says desert tortoise, federal government left him bankrupt

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A Washington County landowner and developer had a vision for a residential development and upscale golf course on the benches above St. Ge...
April 19, 2013

State Lauds Mitigation Deal For Ivanpah Solar Project

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The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (Photo: Craig Dietrich/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke KCET Rewire T he C...
August 19, 2012

National parks face severe funding crunch

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By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Fredericksburg, Va. — Chatham Manor, the elegant 241-year-old Georgian house that served as a Union he...
July 7, 2011

Commission will reduce fee used to protect habitats

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Irony: Halt to Eagle Mountain impacted enviro plans to buy critical habitat  Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Pl...
December 21, 2009

Feinstein to introduce legislation to establish 2 national monuments in Mojave Desert

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The protected areas would encompass 1 million acres containing wildlife, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes and ancient petroglyphs. The senator...
July 15, 2009

Conservation Commission to buy Big Morongo parcel

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Erica Felci The Desert Sun Big Morongo Canyon Preserve (BLM) C oachella Valley officials are spending $3.9 million to acquire 638 acres in B...
March 21, 2009

Feinstein seeks to block solar power from desert land

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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press The Mother Road National Monument designed by the Wilderness Conservancy on behalf of Senator Dianne Feins...
February 4, 2009

A win for wilderness

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EDITORIAL The Senate has passed a public lands bill that will benefit California, among other states. Although the legislation contains a fe...
January 31, 2009

Mojave land trust achieves acquisition milestone

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Joshua Tree charity donates 10,000th acre to Park Service Hi-Desert Star JOSHUA TREE — The Mojave Desert Land Trust, a Joshua Tree public ch...
January 9, 2009

U.S. Senate poised to shut Off-Highway Vehicles out of more than 1 million acres of public land

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FEATURED ALERT American Motorcyclist Association T he U.S. Senate is poised to act as early as Sunday [01/11/2009] on a massive package of p...
November 28, 2008

‘I’m Shocked, Shocked To Discover Land Use Going On Here’

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by Vin Suprynowicz Las Vegas Review-Journal O nce you’ve passed through the entrance gate to one of America’s magnificent national parks or ...
November 19, 2008

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008

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Senator Reid calls peers into lame duck session to debate controversial bill Environmental Analysis Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (C...
November 18, 2008

Boulder's infamous 'land-grab' case settled

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Kirlins say they will only have to cede 12 percent of south Boulder lot By Heath Urie Daily Camera T wo Boulder neighbors have settled a lan...

Cattlemen Ask Senate To Oppose Omnibus Public Land Management Act Of 2008

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News Release R-CALF Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA – on the recommendation of its Private Property Rights Committee – sent a formal letter to...
November 14, 2008

Public lands bill looks dead for year

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Staff and wire reports Casper Star-Tribune CHEYENNE -- A massive lands bill with protections for the Wyoming Range and parts of the Snake Ri...
November 12, 2008

Stop New Federal Land Grab

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Britt Weygandt News Blaze C ongressional leaders say they will ram through an omnibus public lands package in a "lame duck" sessio...
November 11, 2008

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008

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by CEI Staff Competitive Enterprise Institute To: All members, U.S. Senate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently announced his plans to...
October 27, 2008

Reid's Deadly Land Grab

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Opinion Washington DC Examiner O ne reason Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about calling the Senate back to the nation’s capita...