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Flaming Gorge Dam to let loose 3-week torrent: Increased flow will mimic spring runoff PDF Print E-mail
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Written by The Salt Lake Tribune   
Friday, 09 May 2008
Flows from Flaming Gorge Dam will pick up significantly next week as the Bureau of Reclamation increases water volume out of the dam as part of its endangered species recovery operations. 
 
Parker Basin parcel sells at auction for $391,400 PDF Print E-mail
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Written by MIKE SACCONE, The Daily Sentinel   
Friday, 09 May 2008
More than 2,000 acres of federally held subsurface mineral rights in eastern Mesa County sold for $391,400 Thursday at a Bureau of Land Management auction in Lakewood.
 
Negotiators Agree on Farm Bill, but Bush Vows to Veto It PDF Print E-mail
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Written by DAN MORGAN, Washington Post   
Friday, 09 May 2008
House and Senate negotiators yesterday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next five years, but administration officials immediately announced that President Bush will veto it.
 
Bush admin calls Colo. drainage tunnel legislation 'premature' PDF Print E-mail
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Written by KATHERINE BOYLE, E&E Daily   
Friday, 09 May 2008
Any legislation aimed at providing a long-term fix for the blockage plaguing Colorado's Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel is premature, a top Bureau of Reclamation official told the House Water and Power Subcommittee yesterday.
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Tribes, county battle over cultural site designation in uranium hot spot PDF Print E-mail
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter   
Friday, 09 May 2008
County officials and Native American tribes are squaring off over a proposed cultural designation for a New Mexico mountain that is both a sacred site and a uranium hot spot.

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California developer agrees to donate huge parcel for conservation PDF Print E-mail
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Written by NOAKI SCHWARTZ, San Francisco Chronicle   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
A group of environmentalists and the owners of a large stretch of wilderness have reached a deal that would set aside the largest parcel of land for conservation in California history.
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Montana Outdoors: West Nile likely sage grouse killer PDF Print E-mail
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Written by MARK HENCKEL, Billings Gazette   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
North Dakota is considering cancelling its sage grouse hunting season this fall due to record low bird numbers. The apparent blame goes to West Nile Virus.
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Wilderness park bill advances in Senate PDF Print E-mail
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Written by STEVE LIPSHER, The Denver Post   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
A Rocky Mountain National Park wilderness protection bill was reported out of a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday after lawmakers reached a compromise over liability protection for an irrigation ditch running through the park.
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Ex-A.G. questions fed panel's right to call shots on Lake Powell pipeline PDF Print E-mail
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Written by MARK HAVNES, The Salt Lake Tribune   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
CEDAR CITY - Critics of the proposed Lake Powell pipeline are scratching their noggins over this one:  If the $800 million-plus project primarily is about delivering water to a thirsty but growing southwestern Utah, why are federal energy regulators overseeing the approval process?
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How many wolves? Lawsuit says original target was too small by sevenfold PDF Print E-mail
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Written by CHRIS MERRELL, Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
With more than 1,500 wolves now roaming the Northern Rockies, there are five times the original goal stated in the federal government's 1994 wolf recovery plan. But a coalition of conservation and animal rights groups is trying to convince a federal judge that 1,500 wolves is not enough -- that the animals should be put back on the federal endangered species list until the population grows by at least another 33 percent, and state management plans are put in place to maintain that level.
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Panel OKs bill to protect Wyo Range PDF Print E-mail
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Written by NOELLE STRAUB, Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
WASHINGTON -- Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill Wednesday putting 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas production.
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Feds reduce Big Horn flows PDF Print E-mail
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Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Casper-Star Tribune   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
HELENA, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation said Tuesday it was cutting flows into Montana's Big Horn River because of a later-than-expected spring runoff. State officials warned the move would harm the river's renowned trout fishery.
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New dam proposals restart 1970s-era fights PDF Print E-mail
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Written by COLLIN SULLIVAN, ClimateWire   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wallace Stegner, the chronicler of the American West, had a simple response when asked to explain the economics of California. "Water," he said famously. "It's about the water."
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Easement Protects 7,500 Acres in Blackfoot Valley PDF Print E-mail
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Written by MATTHEW FRANK, New West   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
A 7,500-acre expanse of land in the Blackfoot Valley, holding working agricultural lands, wildlife habitat and tributaries crucial to spawning cutthroat and bull trout, has been protected for perpetuity with a conservation easement.
 
Farm bill negotiators return to table as Bush renews veto threat PDF Print E-mail
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, E&ENews PM   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
Key farm bill negotiators are back in closed-door meetings today on Capitol Hill, but the White House is renewing its threat to veto the measure.
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Areva plans to build $2 billion uranium plant in Idaho PDF Print E-mail
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Written by The Santa Fe New Mexican   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
BOISE, Idaho — French-owned energy services company Areva Inc. will build what it's said will be a $2 billion uranium enrichment facility near the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls, after winning tax concessions from the state Legislature meant to lure the plant to the region.
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Agencies issue plan to run Columbia dams, preserve salmon PDF Print E-mail
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Written by JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
The Bush administration yesterday issued its final court-ordered plans for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams and irrigation projects safe for endangered salmon.
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Colorado company to pay $9M for damage to Rockies PDF Print E-mail
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, Greenwire   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
A Colorado company will pay $9 million to repair damage done to Rocky Mountain National Park by a 2003 ditch failure, under a settlement that the National Park Service and Justice Department announced yesterday.
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One down, three to go PDF Print E-mail
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Written by EVELYN SCHLATTER, High Country News   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
Four Western states could see big chunks of new wilderness -- roughly three-quarters of a million acres – thanks to a flurry of wilderness legislation. Three bills are now wending their way through Congress, and a fourth, designating the Washington State Wild Sky Wilderness, awaits President Bush’s expected signature.
 
BLM defers mineral leases on lynx habitat PDF Print E-mail
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Written by PATRICK REIS, E&E News PM   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
Under pressure from environmentalists, local governments and Colorado lawmakers, the Bureau of Land Management has deferred leasing mineral rights on Canada lynx habitat in the Rio Grande National Forest until additional analysis is completed.
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