Pandemic relief could become next forest policy battleground
The long-running debate about how best to care for national forests — and what to do with timber that’s taken from them — is quietly brewing again as lawmakers look…
Read More...To reach sustainable wild horse levels, feds say it will take more than $1 billion and years of work
Federal land managers say it will take two decades and cost more than $1 billion over the first six years alone to slash wild horse populations to sustainable levels necessary…
Read More...New Mexico to consider river protections as mining plan looms
More than 200 miles of the Pecos River, its tributaries and other parts of the upper reaches of the northern New Mexico watershed would be protected from future degradation under…
Read More...NM Supreme Court asked to weigh in on stream access dispute that no one can agree on
Kendra Chamberlain at New Mexico Political Report unpacks the controversy over New Mexico’s stream access law, and the pending lawsuit between pro-access groups and the state. She writes, “Groups on…
Read More...Colorado AG, top water quality regulator vow to challenge new Clean Water Act rule
Colorado and other Western states will be hard pressed to shield their rivers and streams under a new federal Clean Water Act rule finalized last month, largely because hundreds of…
Read More...Washington state makes historic decision to protect salmon from rising water temperatures
In a game-changing decision for struggling Southern Resident orcas and endangered salmon, Washington state will exercise its authority—for the first time ever—to require federal dam operators to keep the Columbia and Snake…
Read More...Supersizing USDA’s farm relief arsenal
There’s momentum in Congress to expand the borrowing authority of USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation, the Depression-era agency that’s funding part of the department’s stimulus payments to farmers and ranchers (and…
Read More...US, Wyoming urge rejection of ruling that blocked bear hunts
Attorneys for the U.S. government and the state of Wyoming urged an appeals court yesterday to throw out much of a judge’s ruling that blocked the first grizzly bear hunts…
Read More...Appeals court rejects lawsuit against Oregon grazing authorizations
Environmentalists have failed to convince the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that grazing authorizations unlawfully harmed bull trout on seven allotments in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest. The appellate court…
Read More...California agencies sue state as irrigation war escalates
California water agencies yesterday sued the state over endangered species protections they claim threaten their ability to provide water to more than 25 million residents and thousands of acres of…
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