On Friday the Interior Department ruled that Americans will be able to carry concealed weapons in some federal parks and wildlife refuges. The announcement overturns a decades-old Reagan Administration regulation that required all guns brought into national parks and wildlife…
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Interior Department to Allow Firearms in Parks and Refuges
Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Bush Administration, firearms, Interior Department, National Park Service, NPS, U.S. Forest Service, USFS
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
How Safe Are the Nation’s Wildlife Refuges?
BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED JULY 2007 The White House accelerated funding for its Healthy Lands Initiative this year, allocating some $3 million to the Bureau of Land Management. The money must be spent on restoring or maintaining natural habitats on…
Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Bush Administration, CARE, Congress, Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement, Jim Saxton, Joseph Guinto, National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Posted in Conservation, Federal Policy, Joseph Guinto, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
Posted in Conservation, Federal Policy, Joseph Guinto, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
End of the Conservation Reserve Program?
BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…
Tagged with: Bush Administration, conservation reserve program, corn ethanol, CRP, Delta Waterfowl, ethanol, Rob Olson, USDA
Posted in April 2007, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
Posted in April 2007, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
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