Public Lands

President Understands Importance of Public Lands to Those Who Served

Mark Starr | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Public Lands, National Parks, Veterans, National Park Service, Obama Administration, National Parks Pass, Military, Impact News
Mark Starr

President Obama, through the Joining Forces Initiative, will be giving free annual passes to all of our National Parks and public lands to all active-duty military and their families. It might seem just like a nice gesture to offer the free pass, but it really is more.

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Lead Ammunition And Polar Bear Trophies Approved By House

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Hunting Public Lands, Public Lands, Environmental Policy, House Hunting Bill, Hunting Bill, Hunting, Lead Ammo, Environmentalism, Polar Bears, Polar Bear Trophies, Lead Bullets, Lead Ammunition, Hunting Bill House, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A hunting bill passed by the House on Tuesday makes it harder to restrict hunting and fishing on public lands and ensures that the ...

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'Green News Report' - February 7, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Fracking, Economy, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Wall Street Journal, Canada, Tar Sands, Drought, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Heat Wave, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Groundhog Day, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Texas, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Peak, Russia, Ron Paul, League of Conservation Voters, Colorado, Public Lands, Mitt Romney, Super Bowl, Arctic, Clint Eastwood, Sustainability, Europe, Michael Mann, Nuclear Energy, Wolves, Endangered Species, Solar Energy; Desert; Peak Oil, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Romney an...

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Salazar Gets It Right, Boehner and Lamborn Get It Wrong On Oil Shale

Bill Eikenberry | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Oil Shale, Public Lands, Department of the Interior, John Boehner, Secretary Salazar, Green News
Bill Eikenberry

Lamborn's bill actually creates a new taxpayer-funded subsidy for companies like Shell by allowing cuts to royalties and shifting basic infrastructure and services costs onto the backs of struggling local governments.

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Assault on Wilderness Fails in the Polls

Bill Meadows | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Conservation, Poll, Public Lands, Voters, Grand Canyon, Wilderness, Department of the Interior, Colorado, Green News
Bill Meadows

There is a clash of values between many in Congress, who want to give away our great outdoors, and the American people, who want to protect these lands and waters that sustain us.

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Wyoming Sportsmen Thank Secretary Salazar

Reg Rothwell | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Public Lands, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Ken Salazar, Wyoming, Cheyenne, Green News
Reg Rothwell

We thank Secretary Salazar because balance is crucial to protecting the wildlife, outdoor opportunities and sporting heritage that are such a rich part of Wyomingites lives.

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Report Unveils Nation's Top Conservation Projects

AP | MATT VOLZ | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Obama Conservation Projects, Interior Department, Obama-Administration, Video, Public Lands, Department of the Interior, Conservation Projects, Conservation, America's Great Outdoors Initiative, Obama Administration, Obama, Ken Salazar, Green News

HELENA, Mont. — An Interior Department report released Thursday identifies 101 high-priority conservation projects across the nation as part of ...

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Red Herring Bill Threatens Public Lands, Public Health and Jobs

Rep. John Garamendi | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Environment, ca10, Borders, Congress, Public Lands, House of Representatives, John Garamendi, Politics News
Rep. John Garamendi

Disguised in the name of border security, H.R. 1505 undermines the future of our national parks and forests, rolls back landmark environmental protections, and opens the door to increased economic uncertainty in rural communities.

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Standing Up for Our Western Lands and Heritage

Bill Eikenberry | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Interior Department, Public Lands, Oil Drilling, Oil, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Wyoming, Gulf Oil Spill, Air Pollution, Categorical-Exclusions, Wildlife, Green News
Bill Eikenberry

Despite claims by oil and gas companies, the truth is that we can have both more responsible energy development and common sense protections for western lands.

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Millions of Acres of Land You Inherited Are at Risk

Rep. John Garamendi | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Congress, Protected Lands, California, Public Lands, National Public Lands Day, Environment, National Forests, National Parks, Green News
Rep. John Garamendi

We are losing open space at an alarming rate. It is critical that we protect the green places we have and fight to maintain balance in the laws and policies that determine how our lands are managed.

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Giving Back to the Land

Mike Matz | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Congress, Wilderness, Fishing, Public Lands, Hunting, Teddy Roosevelt, Green News
Mike Matz

Some in Congress are currently pushing legislation that would open more than 60 million acres, an area the size of Wyoming, of now-protected areas to extractive industries.

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Oil Exploration in the Rockies: Whatever It Takes

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Domestic-Oil, Public Lands, Oil Industry, Energy Exploration, Green News
Edward Flattau

I have no doubt that if there were any way to drill for oil beneath our national parks and protected wilderness areas, industry would seize the moment.

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All the President's (Coal) Men: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Obama's Wyoming Giveaway

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Ken Salazar, Dirty Coal, Lisa Jackson, Public Lands, Warren Buffett, Epa, President Obama, Wyoming, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Energy analysts are still staggering around for an answer to the Obama administration's news in Wyoming's coalfields to greenlight the mining of an estimated 750 million-2.4 billion tons of coal on public lands.

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Bidder 70

Robert Redford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Lands, Big Oil, Economy, Mining, Epa, Oil, Green, Environment, Bureau of Land Management, Conservation, Tim Dechristopher, National Parks, Utah, Green News
Robert Redford

Major financial institutions in this country brought the nation's economy to its knees. And yet the federal government prosecuted this young activist's act of civil disobedience.

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Tim DeChristopher: Taking a Leap and Pointing the Way

Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Environment, Bankers, Tim Dechristopher, Public Lands, Big Oil, Protest, Civil Disobedience, Fracking, Carbon Emissions, Auction, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Green News
Bill McKibben

If the feds think this prosecution/persecution will deter us from working for a livable planet, they couldn't be more wrong. Tim was brave and alone. We will be brave in quantity.

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Ghost Trails Haunt Our Public Lands

Kevin Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wilderness, Public Lands, rs2477, Mining Law of 1866, Protected Areas, San Juan County, d4800, Wilderness Areas, National Parks, Grand County, Utah, Green News
Kevin Walker

Very few wild, relatively pristine lands remain in the lower forty eight states. And less than half of them lie within protected areas. The rest of these scarce wild lands are vulnerable to abuse.

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Interior Announces Restoration Of Wilderness Rules For Public Lands

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, No More Wilderness, Public Lands, Interior Department, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Wilderness Rule, Blm, Bob Abbey, Denver News

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) DENVER (AP) -- The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy and make millions of undeveloped acres of land once aga...

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Bennet-Buck Race Seen As Referendum On Obama Policies On Environment, Public Land

The New York Times | SCOTT STREATER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Policy, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Public Lands, Michael Bennet, Barack Obama, Ken Buck, Denver News

Tea party politics has caught fire in Colorado, where Sen. Michael Bennet (D), the Democratic successor to former senator and now-Interior Secretary K...

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GAO: Lost Natural Gas Costs Gov't $23M Per Year

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lost Natural Gas, Gao, Natural Gas, Public Lands, Natural Gas Royalties, Government Accountability Office, Denver News

BILLINGS, Mont. — The government is losing tens of millions of dollars in potential royalties from energy companies that let immense volumes of ...

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A Convenient Enemy

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas, Cap and Trade Legislation, Rep. Fred Upton, Bp, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dioxin, Capitalism, Epa, Corporate Welfare, Rep. Joe Barton, Public Lands, Dow Chemical, Rep. Dave Camp, Free Market, Republicans, Lisa Jackson, Socialism, Green News
Scott Edwards

It's all very black and white: EPA bad, industrial America good. Economy vs. the environment. Capitalism vs. socialism. Or, maybe, in the mind of Joe Barton, the "legitimately wrong" vs. the illegitimately right.

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Post-Election Is a Prime Time for Public Lands Planning

Bill Meadows | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blm, National Landscape Conservation System, Department of the Interior, Public Lands, Carizzo Plains National Monument, Green Elections, Green News
Bill Meadows

Through public engagement and sharing of knowledge, we can make the National Landscape Conservation System a model program for land conservation that promotes economic values and fosters planning for future growth.

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Federal Investments Required to Expand Service and Learning Opportunities For Young People on Public Lands

Harry Bruell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Lands Service Corps Act, National Forests, Public Lands, Southwest Conservation Corps, National Parks, Denver News
Harry Bruell

Too many young Americans are exercising their thumbs playing video games these days, instead of exercising their bodies playing outside.

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Caught Between a Rock and Red Tape

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parks and Recreation, Endangered Species, U.S. Forest Service, Arkansas River, Federal Red Tape, Public Lands, Army Corps of Engineers, Denver News
Sean Paige

It doesn't seem right to have a family waiting for the return of a loved one's body while all the usual agencies are consulted and a pointless "process" drags on.

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Developer Thomas Chapman Profits By Threatening Prime Park Land, Now Challenges Obama

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild and Scenic, Conservation, Obama, Private Property Rights, Public Parks, Public Lands, West, Land Rights, Parks, American Land Rights Association, Federal Lands, State Parks, National Parks, Green News

On behalf of his clients or his business partners, [Thomas Chapman] talks up plans to develop the parcels: a subdivision at a scenic overlook, an RV p...

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National Public Lands Day: The Psychology of Preservation

Deanna Neil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Wilderness, Psychology, Public Lands, National-Public-Lands-Day, Outdoors, Child Psychology, National Parks, Nature, Everglades, Green News
Deanna Neil

We've come to recognize that we can't define nature and we do not understand the boundaries of the painting, even as adults. That's why we've artificially created them, to force ourselves from over-consumption.

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