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Written by AMY JOI O'DONOGHUE, Deseret News
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
A legislative committee added three arrows to its quiver in the fight against the federal government by advancing a trio of bills Tuesday.
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Written by DENNIS WEBB, Grand Junction Sentinel
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
A decision announced by Shell on Tuesday ends a battle over Yampa River water, but the company says it doesn’t mean the end of its oil shale project in Rio Blanco County.
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Written by MEAD GRUVER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has asked a federal judge in Idaho for a one-week extension for submitting an endangered species finding for the greater sage grouse.
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Written by JOE ESTRELLA, Idaho Statesman
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
M3 Eagle General Manager Gerry Robbins said the company hopes to have a hearing by summer on whether the Department of Water Resources was wrong to deny M3's request for the water to fuel a giant residential development north of Eagle.
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Written by Salt Lake Tribune
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert declared a "monumental win" Monday, after the U.S. Department of Energy scrapped plans to send more trainloads of depleted uranium to Utah so the state has time to determine whether the waste belongs here.
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Written by LEE DAVIDSON, Deseret News
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
Upset Utahns in Congress are attempting something that hasn't been done in 60 years: Exempt a state — this time Utah — from a president's power to create or expand national monuments there.
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Written by LESLIE KAUFMAN, New York Times
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Under crystalline winter skies, a light infantry unit headed for Iraq was practicing precision long-range shooting through a pall of smoke. But the fire generating the haze had nothing to do with the training exercise.
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Written by ERIN MADISON, Great Falls Tribune
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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After holding 22 listening sessions across the state attended by more than 1,000 people, Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., has one major change he'd like to see in Sen. Jon Tester's, D-Mont., Forest Jobs and Recreation bill.
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Written by Billings Gazette
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
 3/17/10 UPDATE: Grand Teton closes area for sage grouse mating. Read more...
3/13/10 UPDATE: The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to allocate up to $16 million to encourage farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to protect sage grouse and the bird's habitat. Read more...
3/9/10 UPDATE: An environmental group is challenging plans by the Interior Department to classify sage grouse as merely a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act and not list the bird as threatened or endangered. Read more...
3/5/10 UPDATE: Federal authorities today embarked on a compromise effort to protect the sage grouse as a "candidate" species under the Endangered Species Act. Read more...
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Written by DAN FROSCH, New York Times
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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With currents of powerful wind gusts whipping across its plains and plateaus, Wyoming has become a new frontier for the wind industry — the latest energy development for a state that only recently experienced a natural gas boom.
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Written by THOMAS BURR, Salt Lake Tribune
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Gov. Gary Herbert said Sunday he is assured for now that the Obama administration is not moving forward on any plans to designate national monuments in Utah or the West.
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Written by ED O'KEEFE, Washington Post
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
The federal government will lift long-standing restrictions on guns in national parks Monday, meaning that visitors with proper permits could pack heat along with camping and picnic gear to most of the 392 parks. The move concerns current and former employees of the National Park Service who are convinced that the move will damage the spirit of the nation's park system.
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Written by Meg Leta Ambrose
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
3/10/10 UPDATE: Utah Senate approves federal lands bill, sends it back to House. Read more...
3/3/10 UPDATE: The [Utah] state House passed a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a stretch outside Arches National Park and other areas. Read more...
This move is in reaction to an internal document leaked by the Bureau of Land Managemet that lists areas spread among nine states, most of which are in the West. The BLM has emphasized that the document represents only an initial brainstorming phase of the decision-making process.
2/22/10 UPDATE: Gov. Gary Herbert said Sunday he is assured for now that the Obama administration is not moving forward on any plans to designate national monuments in Utah or the West. Read more...
2/23/10 UPDATE: Utah senators submit legislation that would require congressional approval for president to create new monuments in Utah. Read more...
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Written by GARY HARMON, Grand Junction Sentinel
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
The Vermillion Basin in northwest Colorado and the high peaks between Silverton and Lake City are listed as potential areas for wilderness or other designation, according to a document leaked from the Bureau of Land Management.
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Written by THOMAS BURR, Salt Lake Tribune
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
Rep. Rob Bishop says he has unearthed plans by the Obama administration to wield its power to designate multiple new national monuments in the West, including two that would snatch up thousands of acres in Utah.
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Written by LEDYARD KING, Great Falls Tribune
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
The Obama administration is exploring whether to exercise its authority to protect the Northern Montana prairie and millions of other pristine acres across the western United States — an idea that has Republican lawmakers from the region upset that it would wrest land away from those who want to use it for ranching, recreation, timber harvest and energy development.
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Written by CASEY NETWON, Arizona Republic
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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If the state moves forward with closing Fort Verde Historic State Park next month, the move will cost taxpayers $141,000 - or about $46,000 more than it would cost to keep the park open for another year.
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Written by BECKY KRAMER, Spokane Spokesman-Review
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
He and his wife, Kay, live in close proximity to the shaggy-haired predators. Wolf tracks have appeared on the couple’s private beach along the St. Joe River, and their two Rottweilers growl when they hear wolves howling at night. Last fall, Turley shot at a young wolf that was prowling a hillside near their house, but it ran off.
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Written by PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
A federal judge has decided the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance will be allowed to defend its own interests in a lawsuit filed by three oil companies and three Utah counties over a hotly disputed 2008 oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City.
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Written by JEFF GEARINO, Casper Star-Tribune
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
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Not surprisingly, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received thousands of comments about entrepreneur Aaron Million's proposal to build a pipeline from the Green River in southwest Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range.
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