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Written by PATRICK REIS, Land Letter
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week proposed drastically expanded
critical habitat for the Canadian lynx. The new proposal calls for 42,753 square
miles to be categorized as critical habitat, more than 20 times more than the
agency's 2006 proposal of 1,841 square miles.
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Written by ERYN GABLE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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U.S. EPA has approved strict new water quality standards sought by Montana
despite fears that the new rules could hamper the energy industry in neighboring
Wyoming. The coalbed methane industry has been booming in the Powder River
Basin, which straddles Montana and Wyoming, for the past decade, with more than
20,000 wells drilled in northern Wyoming alone.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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LAS CIENEGAS NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA, Ariz. -- Atop a rocky hill in
the heart of this mountain-ringed expanse of undulating grasslands and
cottonwood-lined creeks, rancher Mac Donaldson gestures toward a
stretch of bottomlands below.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- The path of the border fence is continuing to cause
great consternation. With a new section of the fence being erected in
the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, many fear the
effects to wildlife and their habitats, river flows and scenic vistas
will be irrevocably altered without providing the security the fence
was intended to create.
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Written by JERD SMITH, Rocky Mountain News
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
Hundreds of people drove across the northern Arizona desert this week, intent on reaching Glen Canyon Dam for today's torrential release of water, designed to mimic spring snowmelts from the days when the mighty Colorado River roared unimpeded through the Southwest.
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, Greenwire
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said today that farmers should be allowed to plant and harvest switchgrass on millions of acres set aside for conservation -- a move that environmentalists say could undermine a program that sets aside vital bird habitat.
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Written by CHRIS WOODKA, The Pueblo Chieftain, Brown and Caldwell's Waternews
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
Conserving irrigation water could benefit water quality and might make more water available for all uses, a study shows.
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Written by MATT WEISER, The Sacramento Bee, Brown and Caldwell's Waternews
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
As water contractors join the rule-making on Delta pumping, group says 'fox is guarding the henhouse.' Water users who benefit most from tapping the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have been given an unprecedented role in drafting new rules to manage water diversions.
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Written by PHAEDRA HAYWOOD, The New Mexican
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
How do you drill through a drinking water aquifer and extract oil from the earth below without polluting that water with oil — and threatening public health? That's a question Galisteo Basin residents have been asking since last fall, when Tecton Energy announced plans to drill for a million barrels of light, sweet crude in the area.
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Written by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
The Western states' era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border.
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Written by DAVID O. WILLIAMS, RealVail.com
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
Most experts agree the war against the mountain pine beetle in Colorado is all but lost, but Vail Resorts hopes to at least win a few battles against the voracious tree-eating bugs using a new repellant injected into the trunks of healthy lodgepole pines.
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Written by MARGARET JACKSON, Denver Post
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
Efforts to investigate questionable conservation easements in Colorado where tax credits are traded for protection of land from development have been hindered because the state Division of Real Estate doesn't have jurisdiction over subdivisions involving fewer than 20 parcels, and counties don't have jurisdiction over parcels larger than 35 acres.
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Written by MIKE STARK & CLAIRE JOHNSON, Billings Gazette
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed a sweeping expansion of the amount of "critical habitat" for the threatened Canada lynx, including an additional 21,000 square miles in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, a move that would increase the area of critical habitat from 1,841 square miles in the lower 48 states to 42,735.
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, Greenwire
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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The Interior Department will decide this year on proposed endangered species listings for 71 species, a nearly tenfold increase in the number of species listed in the Bush administration's first seven years.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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When National Park Service Director Mary Bomar appears before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee this week, she will likely be asked how the operations budget can be so high while other agency functions face major cuts.
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Written by Greenwire
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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A federal appeals court ruled against the Bush administration's attempt
to exempt Navy sonar training from court-ordered restraints that
safeguard whales and dolphins from harmful sonic blasts, backing up a
lower court's orders.
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Written by AP, Headwaters News
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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A bill that would give state water officials $20 million to study, monitor and develop plans for future management of 10 aquifers scattered across the state cleared another legislative hurdle Wednesday.
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Written by BRIANNA RANDALL, New West, Headwaters News
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Would you set up a tent on an empty highway? Paul Hansen, a former University of Montana professor, asked this question at a February streamside setbacks workshop in Kalispell. Though the answer may be a simple one for many folks, a similar question has generated extensive public comment across several western Montana counties: would you build a house in the flood plain?
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The most water-challenged region in the United States has the most to lose under new federal guidelines governing which bodies of water fall under the safety net of Clean Water Act protections, according to a report from environmental groups.
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Written by JOSH VOORHEES, E&E
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The Bush administration joined Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) yesterday in
support of legislation that would protect more than 1.2 million acres of the
Wyoming Range from oil and minerals development.
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