WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.
June 6, 2007
Bush administration scales back climate science via satellites
Lawsuit filed to restore protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears
WASHINGTON - JUNE 5 -Conservation groups today filed a lawsuit in Idaho federal district court challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for the Yellowstone area’s iconic grizzly bear population. The legal challenge asks the court to restore the threatened status of the Yellowstone grizzly population because of ongoing and threatened habitat destruction, insufficient bear numbers, and inadequate legal protections.
Forester who opposed Roadless Plan tapped to head BLM
Coincidence?
lol.
When President Clinton proposed sweeping protection for millions of acres of roadless national forest during his final weeks in office, James Caswell was front and center in a mutiny of forest supervisors.
New Hampshire: Owl’s Head cliff could go to White Mountain National Forest
BENTON, N.H. (AP) _ A spectacular 800-foot cliff could be added to the White Mountain National Forest soon, if a nonprofit group is successful in acquiring 380 acres of private land near the Appalachian Trail
Arizona: Fire restrictions to begin in Coconino National Forest
Officials say the fire danger in the Coconino National Forest has increased to very high.
Wyoming: Grizzly numbers rise in Grand Teton National Park
The couple may get their wish as they visit the park this week: Grizzly bears are increasingly making Grand Teton their home.