It's time to take pride not only in being public land owners but also in becoming better public land funders.
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Fight over coal leases on public land Becerra challenged the Interior Department in 28503 over a decision to begin leasing out public land for coal mining.
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President Donald Trump has advocated for opening up public land for more drilling and mining, although he has said that public land should stay under federal control.
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It makes sure that oil, gas and coal companies don't enjoy more benefits on public land than hunters, fishers, campers, and any other users of public land.
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The public land grazing industry pays just $1.69 per animal per month for each cow and calf that grazes the public land unit (it costs more to feed a cat).
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Incorporating state, local and tribal stakeholders for public land management.
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It advocates opening up more public land to energy exploration.
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But I believe in the public good and public land.
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Others built homes on public land, essentially living as squatters.
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It's your American public land endowment, your birthright at citizenship.
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"On public land, the government has a budget," Bowman said.
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APR already possesses leases for the public land in question.
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The national trade association of enterprises running livestock on public land, the Public Lands Council — seeking to preserve its membership and influence — fiercely resists retiring even a single acre of public land from grazing.
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"Show me the money," said Ashley Korenblat from Public Land Solutions.
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In 2011, Mr. Orban's new government began leasing out public land.
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The administration's touchstone for public land management harkens back to 1872.
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Bears Ears is already part of the nation's public land endowment.
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"Public land is supposed to be for multiple use," he said.
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Nearly 80 of the farms in Stellenbosch sit on public land.
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The nation's top public land manager said Congress has time before Nov.
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There is now almost no public land left in Somaliland, he added.
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He voted to preserve a gigantic cross on public land in Maryland.
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The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve sweeping public land legislation.
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But Modi must also ensure efficient utilization of public land, argued Godrej.
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As in public land — the great shared turf of the American West.
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The president's energy strategy is more likely to damage public-land resources.
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The Antiquities Act was traditionally used to create monuments on public land.
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In a more egalitarian vision, U.S. shores could be reclaimed as public land.
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What can the average person who is passionate about protecting public land do?
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Neither Trump nor Zinke are opposed to drilling or mining on public land.
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So most public land in the city can't be used to grow food.
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Privatizing public land, it turns out, is a lot harder than it sounds.
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"In Seattle there's quite a culture of caring about public land," she said.
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The law prevents certain historical monuments on public land from being taken down.
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Democrats, though, have called the GOP approach an assault on public land ownership.
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And this monarch has control over the crown jewels of America's public land.
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Conservation advocates say they are concerned about the future of public land acquisition.
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Follow local and federal laws — collecting fossils is largely prohibited on public land.
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But the state's 420 code actually applies to obstructing entry on public land.
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As a citizen you own more than 245 million acres of public land.
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While Mr. Zinke had been the face of rollbacks of public-land protections, Mr. Bernhardt, as deputy chief of the department, quietly developed the plans to open millions of acres of public land and water to oil, gas and coal companies.
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For ranchers, the ideal seemed to be something like private stakes on public land.
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So the first piece here is phasing out fossil fuel production on public land.
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By contrast, grazing allotments on federal public land number a bit more than 20,000.
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And, by doing so, undid public land protections made by three presidents before him.
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There are estimated to be around 1,103 Confederate symbols on U.S. public land today.
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It will mean we make practical, scientific decisions about public land – not political ones.
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The main federal tax subsidy is cheap leases to mine coal on public land.
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"The Trump administration is allowing speculators to lease public land for pennies," she said.
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The administration's intent is to eventually open up public land to new lease sales.
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The proposal was met with nearly unanimous opposition across all public land user groups.
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The company's next step then was to make a bid to the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that is in the sometimes conflicting business of both protecting public land and auctioning off long-term leases on public land to industries.
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The law gives presidents the power to designate and preserve public land with archaeological significance.
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Administration officials appear determined to squeeze more money from coal companies mining on public land.
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Both would make it much harder for religious displays on public land to be challenged.
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As for coal mining: About 232 percent of US coal supply comes from public land.
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Willis lamented the trend, and said history had proven the popularity of public land conservation.
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Khan promised to cut costs, including trimming motorcades of government officials and selling public land.
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But their initiatives skew the market, whittle away public land, and leave out entire communities.
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Situate yourself on public land along the inside curve of a bend in the river.
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He never digs on public land, because of what he considers excessive government red tape.
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"The Court's ruling allows the State to maintain the cross on public land," he wrote.
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As for coal mining: About 40 percent of US coal supply comes from public land.
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More saliently, public land visitors are exactly who should be chipping in more for recreation.
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Trump, Jr., is a defender of keeping public land public, a contentious issue among sportsmen.
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Further, every dollar a state invests in public land conservation returns four dollars in revenue.
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The 50 percent requirement on public land shows that it is possible to build more.
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BLM, which is part of the Interior Department, stewards 248.3 million acres of public land.
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The destruction of natural rock formations on public land is a crime and will be prosecuted.
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When public land is given to a state, how can it become vulnerable to destructive forces?
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Though the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation is private land, its burial site is on public land.
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Escrow accounts are common to safeguard deposits, and titles are tracked by a public land registry.
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In the meantime, Bundy plans to continue the fight over public land, one way or another.
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Finnerty likes to hunt bear and elk on public land in Oregon with his five sons.
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County commissioners are also working on making public land available to campers via special recreation permits.
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President Donald Trump has vowed to open greater sections of public land to energy and industry.
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Zinke is seen as having more moderate views on public land policy than many Western conservatives.
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He is also likely to lift a moratorium on new coal mining leases on public land.
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The pipeline will go directly through public land protected by Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution.
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About 1,500 Confederate symbols -- 718 of which are monuments and statues -- still exist on public land.
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Instagram's public land purveyors are just a new iteration in the monstrous progression of this machine.
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A Natural Resources Committee subpanel will hold a hearing on renewable energy development on public land.
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Green infrastructure is also recommended by MIT, The Trust for Public Land, and the RAND Corp.
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Roosevelt was a founding progressive voice who saw parks and public land as a basic right.
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Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 23.5 percent of Idaho is public land.
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Ashley Korenblat is the CEO of Western Spirit Cycling and Managing Director at Public Land Solutions.
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Trump is also aiming to lift a moratorium on new coal-mine leasing on public land.
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Another created national parks and forests that left every American a rich inheritance of public land.
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The Homestead Act provided 160 acres of public land for every loyal citizen of the Union.
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This cross-culture collaboration, just like the idea of a shared public land system, is radical.
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These federally owned lands are often referred to as "public land," although that term is misleading.
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Various administrations have long accused Canada of allowing loggers to cut down trees on public land.
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In other words, warding off illegal grows on public land may seem like a Sisyphean task.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with negative energy and public land policies after she voted against repealing Obamacare.
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At issue was a proposal to start leasing the public land abutting their homes to developers in
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The Trust for Public Land is unique, in that it helps to create public lands from scratch.
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That's what public land is: land that belongs to the public—me, you, every law-abiding American.
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But even public land and animals protected by the federal government are not shielded from the wall.
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That's what public land is: land that belongs to the public — me, you, every law-abiding American.
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Vandalizing public land can carry a fine of up to $10,000 and a three year jail sentence.
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The science is conclusive: in the U.S. public land management must be part of our climate solution.
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Laxalt's relations also oppose his positions on healthcare, immigration, reproductive rights, marriage, education and public land use.
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That, and all the public land privatization and drilling that come with it, may very well happen!
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The nation has more than 560 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land.
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One possibility would be to allow for advocates to acquire public-land grazing permits for the animals.
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The financing model connects private investors and public land agencies to cover upfront costs of forest restorations.
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That Obama rule would have applied to all wells on public land, not just newly drilled ones.
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Federal regulators made final a rule Thursday overhauling how wind and solar power companies lease public land.
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The federal government manages more than 2628 million acres of public land belonging to the American people.
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Compared to other proposed legislation, H.R. 622 is subtler in its attempts to destabilize public land ownership.
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BOISE Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 68 percent of Idaho is public land.
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What they do according to O*NET: Control and suppress fires in forests or vacant public land.
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That technology requires lithium-ion batteries, and Nevada has a huge reserve of lithium on public land.
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It's not about left or right, it's about locals becoming an integral part of public land management.
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He wears a T-shirt emblazoned with words that every American should live by: Public Land Owner.
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Overall activeness score: 55.6What they do: Control and put out fires in forests or empty public land.
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The Obama administration on Monday blocked mining on 30,000 acres of public land near Yellowstone National Park.
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WLA members steward approximately 14 million acres of deeded and leased public land in the American West.
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Title information is readily accessible through an online public land registry, and title insurance is not required.
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Nominal fees paid by users could provide public land managers with dedicated funding independent of legislative cycles.
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A strong majority of Southerners — 61 percent — are committed to keeping their Confederate monuments on public land.
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It was a ludicrous arrangement from the start: a privately owned ball field built on public land.
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Public land protection may therefore not be an effective cause for mobilizing minorities, especially economically disadvantaged groups.
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Whatever the reason, the fire burned 139 acres of public land and forestalled grazing for two seasons.
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced that her agency would begin a three-year review intended to overhaul the federal government's program for leasing coal on public land, with an eye to raising the costs paid by coal companies to mine on public land, and ultimately to slow down production.
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This is what's important about public-land conflicts: They raise thorny questions about abstract political concepts like democracy.
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The boundary changes will threaten ancient art and artifacts on millions of acres of previously protected public land.
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Journalists have been barred in the past from watching the roundup, though it takes place on public land.
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The valley is home to large cattle ranches that rely on both private and public land for grazing.
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Congress had seen other public land divestment bills before, but none had been pulled as quickly as Chaffetz's.
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The two were convicted in 2012 of setting fires on public land to protect their property from wildfires.
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This new rule, the Interior Department said Tuesday, could cut public land emissions by up to 35 percent.
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The animals were grazing on public land; Mr Bundy had long refused to pay the (heavily subsidised) fees.
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Most leases are on public land in Western states, primarily Wyoming, along with Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
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While few question the ESA's authority over public land, it's authority over private land is still legally murky.
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Public land advocates had alleged the border was gerrymandered to carve out Noel's property and a water pipeline.
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The threat of that encroachment underscored the need to save the land, the Trust for Public Land said.
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Zinke has also insisted monument management changes will allow for more public land access for sportsmen and others.
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The BLM oversees 250 million acres of public land and manages royalties from oil, gas and coal leases.
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Mr. Netanyahu's government has been working to retroactively legalize dozens of settler outposts that sit on public land.
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These partnerships are long-term deals in which the government taps a private company to develop public land.
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In recent years, however, presidents have abused the Antiquities Act to lock up vast swaths of public land.
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The property where it stands was in private hands when it was erected, but later became public land.
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"Throughout history, people have been doing things on public land if it's in the public interest," he said.
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Trump's wall would require turning private property into public land, a prospect that appalls Texans like Eloisa Cavazo.
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Almost 25 percent of American earth-warming emissions originate from industrial action involving public land or offshore leases.
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What he didn't say was that we hold our public land in trust for the Americans of tomorrow.
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They will be similarly roused when he attempts to let the despoilers have their way on public land.
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So, here it is in black and white: We want to keep public land public and well-managed.
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About 27,000 wild horses and burros, or small donkeys, can sustainably live on public land designated for wildlife.
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The Sagebrush rebels were a loose alliance of disgruntled Western public-land users, Western stock growers chief among them.
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Starting in 1993, Mr. Bundy refused to pay fees or obtain permits for cattle he grazed on public land.
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"Any public land that is found to have been given to anybody is going to be revoked," he said.
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The 1906 Antiquities Act, passed by Theodore Roosevelt, recognizes archaeological sites located on public land as important public resources.
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The Hammonds were convicted of arson in 2012 for setting fire to public land adjacent to their ranch land.
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Perhaps the justices could let the Maryland memorial stand while saying "no more" to future crosses on public land?
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Bundy and his supporters oppose the U.S. government's control over millions of acres of public land in the West.
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He also called himself an "unapologetic admirer of Teddy Roosevelt," a former Republican president who pioneered public land conservation.
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Living on public land isn't legal, and the authorities who find them are particularly concerned for Tom's well-being.
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"There shouldn't be anything honoring the Confederate on public land," Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project, told CNN.
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Conservation advocates say the group has grown under Tawney into a strategic, effective ally in the public-land sector.
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Some worry that Trump's platform would open the door to selling off public land and more mining and drilling.
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Members could soon take up a measure undoing a methane rule for natural gas drilling operations on public land.
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Beyond the biggest oligarchs like Mr. Meszaros, other supporters and sympathizers of Mr. Orban got blocks of public land.
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He has also pushed Congress to better protect public land and wild areas from the effects of climate change.
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Large tracts of public land in cities are also quietly slipping into the hands of officials and connected businessmen.
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While Israel's highest legal authorities allow settlements in areas declared public land, private property rights have technically been preserved.
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Critics say the rule would endanger President Obama's goal of permitting 20,85033 megawatts of renewable energy on public land.
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The elder Mr. Bundy has for many years refused to obtain permits to graze his cattle on public land.
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Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, has a moderate streak on public land ownership.
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The federal government manages almost 650 million acres of public land, as well as the fossil fuels beneath them.
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The rights groups are not the first to accuse Ivorian officials of misconduct in their management of public land.
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IDAHO CITY BOISE Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 68 percent of Idaho is public land.
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The Wildlife Protection Act bars commercial or recreational trapping on both private and public land, according to the Times.
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The law allows the state to acquire public land along the Grand Central Parkway and the No. 7 line.
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At many universities, these organizations offer grand houses — in some cases, on public land — that dominate the social scene.
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However, a majority of Americans in Western states, home to vast tracts of federal land, support maintaining public land.
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These bills would create a dedicated fund for public land restoration using revenue from energy development, not taxpayer dollars.
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U.S. producers have said Canada unfairly subsidizes its lumber producers with low fees on timber cut on public land.
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Clarification: An earlier version of this story wasn't clear about how Interior can open up public land for development.
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In Spanish, a homesteader on public land is called " invasor" (invader), and the gum tappers were only the first.
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If you compare the combination of grazing fees and land maintenance costs that ranchers invest to graze on public land to the single fee charged to lease private land for grazing – where the landowner does all the land maintenance for you – researchers find that ranching on public land is a more significant investment.
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At the time, this was portrayed as a political compromise, one that would reduce (if not eliminate) public-land conflicts.
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But if someone finds a meteorite on public land in the United States, the laws are a bit more cumbersome.
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At issue in both cases was the way the federal government administers vast swaths of public land across western states.
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In their view, the county is selling out to moneyed developers by infringing on their right to enjoy public land.
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The Village of Upper Nyack and the Durst Organization, which supports the Trust for Public Land, have each committed $100,000.
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The Bundy family has become popular for groups challenging federal control over vast stretches of public land in the West.
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According to The Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based non-profit, 100 million U.S. urbanites lack such access.
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Much of my research has involved documenting sacred places because they are being threatened by development projects on public land.
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Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered Thursday that federal land managers consider public access when selling or trading public land.
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The revenue is a boost to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's push to raise more money off public land lease sales.
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"We're decoupling what people's experiences are with their public land managers when we start contracting all this out," he said.
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The wild horses used to live on public land, but were removed through the years to make space for cattle.
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This idea -- using public land "for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" -- has been around for over a century.
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But with few exceptions, all adhered to the mandates of the public land laws adopted in the 1960s and 85033s.
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Under the 1872 law, mining is considered the "highest and best use" of public land, trumping — literally — all other considerations.
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Ethiopia's booming economy, as well, has meant public land on which animals once grazed is increasingly dedicated to industrial projects.
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A number of provisions in the House's version of the farm bill would open up logging opportunities on public land.
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"It's nice to not have an administration that is thinking to drive productive users off of public land," she said.
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First, in a Thursday hearing, the panel will look into the administration's efforts to ease energy production on public land.
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This effort includes laws passed in state legislatures in Utah and Wyoming to study state takeovers of federal public land.
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Organizations like the Koch-funded American Lands Council are working to help local governments reclaim some control of public land.
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Other Democratic candidates have focused on stopping oil and gas drilling on public land, and in the case of Sens.
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It also was directed as a protest against federal control over millions of acres of public land in the West.
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Removal agents use a GPS tracking app to log their time spent hunting and tracking the creatures on public land.
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Unfortunately, Emmer wants to short-circuit this review and fundamentally alter federal environmental and public land protections to benefit Antofagasta.
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"We are planting trees on public land like schools and hospitals, and encouraging people to do the same," he said.
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"Camping on public land is becoming very common when people don't have the means to live in certain areas," he said.
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An independent government body, the National Land Commission, was set up in 2012 to manage public land and investigate historical injustices.
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Jason Chaffetz is withdrawing his bill that proposed to sell off 3.3 million acres of public land in 10 western states.
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She opposes fracking on public land and anywhere that local communities are against it, or wherever it polluted air or water.
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Mr Trump has promised to make more public land available to miners; but access to coal reserves is not their problem.
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In 2014, leases, royalties and other fees from mining coal on public land generated about $1.2 billion for the federal government.
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Settlers caught rainwater in tanks and grazed their livestock across public land that had yet to be brought under government control.
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One was the mutual mistrust between the Forest Service and environmentalists who object to public land being used as a lumberyard.
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American loggers have long complained that their Canadian competitors pay too little to harvest trees, which grow mostly on public land.
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Trump later slashed a pair of national monuments in Utah, making the largest reduction of public land protections in US history.
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Before removing any rock from private or public land like a beach or preserve, check to make sure that it's allowed.
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The Nature Conservancy also supports public land access while promoting sustainable farming, energy management, and biodiversity in the U.S. and beyond.
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The Interior Department on Friday launched a new initiative to coordinate public land management work with tribal governments around the country.
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This action has many public land defenders concerned as well, and signals that there will be lots of conflict to come.
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But what's happening there is just an extension of the anti-government, anti-public land movement that's been growing in Congress.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that an Alaska man may use a hovercraft while hunting moose on public land.
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As for Sanders's positions like ending fossil fuel leasing on public land, Clinton said they're not going to pass through Congress.
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In Florida, city planners and environmental scientists have considered converting miles of public land into retention basins to hold back floods.
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According to Zinke, the goal in leasing more public land and privatizing services is to raise revenue for the federal government.
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While oil production on private land has surged because of fracking, it actually decreased on public land because of Democratic opposition.
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"These are public projects paid for with public dollars on public land, so the public needs to benefit," Ms. Sutphin said.
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Sanders has called for a wholesale ban on fracking, while Biden called for a halt to new fracking on public land.
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It was a small island in a sea of green, which was the public land where he had a grazing permit.
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County officials argued that Florida law permits such no-bid transactions involving public land if they result in wider economic benefits.
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The lapsed funding comes after recent efforts by Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump to relax public land protections.
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Many Serbs have accused the mayor and the president of not consulting with the public on plans to develop public land.
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Such is the result when one man with a phone and pen takes a top-down approach to public land management.
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When they open the door to having a cross on public land, they open the door for other things to happen.
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He issued dozens of executive orders creating federal wildlife refuges on public land, a move that protected animals and reduced pollution.
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The arrangements have enabled the farmers to maintain control of large stretches of public land long after the arrival of democracy.
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The Malheur occupation had also been a protest against federal control over millions of acres (hectares) of public land in the West.
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Oil and gas production on public land has actually declined under the Obama administration; all the growth has been on private land.
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Indeed, the government could have made more of its success in recent years of releasing public land for building, maintained JLL's Challis.
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Western ranchers, politicians, and states' rights advocates have long sought local control of public land and opposed the expansion of national protections.
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On issues like public land, Eliason takes a nuanced approach but disagrees with Bishop&aposs support for downsizing two sprawling national monuments.
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The old way of doing things is a cumbersome, multi-year process that does not meet the needs of public land users.
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Meanwhile, our public land and water managers simply can't keep up with the need to thin forests to protect communities from wildfire.
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As the editors note, even the public-health benefits of reducing local pollution more than justify ending coal production on public land.
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Two federal agencies are cutting the fees that ranchers and other land managers pay them to graze their animals on public land.
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The senators questioned his ability to act impartially as the No. 2 official in charge the bulk of the nation's public land.
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Apart from the occasional $20 stay at a campsite (a splurge), we stick to sleeping on public land and in free campgrounds.
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The groups challenged the Interior Department's authority to place a 20-year mining ban on the 1 million acres of public land.
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The Obama administration recently scrapped Atlantic and Alaskan oil drilling plans and declared a moratorium on public land leases for coal mining.
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Federal officials have released a proposed plan for a public land use — including mining and oil and gas drilling — in southern Utah.
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As proposed two years ago, the rule would mandate competitive auctions for companies to put wind and solar facilities on public land.
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Imagine dropping $70 to enter a public land, only to reach an overlook and see a magnificent valley of ... rigs and pumps.
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In April, 2017, he came under criticism after internal memos were leaked, revealing his intention to roll back protections on public land.
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Western Republicans and miners are girding for a fight over coal mining royalty rates and a moratorium on public land lease sales.
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Mr. Borge also sold plots of public land to his mother, his lawyer and his friends for a fraction of their value.
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Zinke's state, Montana, is among the country's top coal producers on public land, and the lawmaker also opposes both those Obama policies.
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Federal officials started the process Thursday toward a comprehensive environmental review of the way the government leases public land for coal mining.
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Despite its shortcomings, the approach has helped the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based non-profit that advocates for parks.
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The Trust for Public Land found that there has been a 40 percent increase in the development of dog parks since 2009.
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It is all about carrying the agenda of various industries, often at the expense of environmental standards and public land management values.
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We found that one-third of all fires occurred in undesignated public lands, which indicates active attempts to illegally grab public land.
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Abe to a suspicious deal in which the school group bought public land at a steep discount to build a new school.
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In all, he set aside about 230 million acres of public land for future generations — an endowment 50 percent larger than Texas.
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The court also ruled that a 40-foot memorial cross on Maryland public land does not violate the separation between church and state.
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"States sell land all the time, and that's the biggest threat if states were to get a hold of public land," he says.
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Simon's prescription is to discourage growth by providing fewer fire protection services and declare more areas as public land that cannot be developed.
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STEM-focused Missouri University of Science and Technology, often called Missouri S&T, is a public land grant university based in Rolla, Missouri.
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Coal, oil, and gas are extracted from public land and transported over public right-of-ways, leaving behind an array of local pollutants.
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He and his teenage daughter Tom (a brilliant Thomasin McKenzie) live in a forest in Oregon, on public land, mostly off the grid.
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Together, they suggest that at the very least the Trump administration isn't readying an all-out war against public land and wilderness space.
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Caving enthusiasts have strongly opposed moves to restrict access to caves across the U.S. West, many on public land, where the bats hibernate.
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The US government has proposed new regulations to stop oil and gas drilling operations on public land releasing unwanted methane into the atmosphere.
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Besides pre-empting this information request, the House has passed a resolution undoing an Interior Department rule on methane leaks on public land.
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Lifting the moratorium, industry supporters say, will help miners in Western states where there are large tracts of recoverable coal on public land.
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One of Zinke's first acts, after dismounting from Tonto, was to overturn a moratorium on new leases for coal mines on public land.
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A lifelong hunter, he loved the land and nature, and believed in preserving public land for the public good and for future generations.
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"It was backlash against this notion that all Westerners don't like the federal government owning public land," said Whit Fosburgh, the organization's president.
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The 1872 General Mining Law, which still governs public land mining, is a relic of manifest destiny policies adopted to promote western settlement.
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An Obama administration attempt to overhaul management of renewable energy on public land is pitting the wind and solar power industries against conservationists.
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RNR aims to reduce barriers to outdoor recreation access, and improve public land management for Americans who enjoy recreation pursuits of all types.
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Mr. Benepe, now director of city park development at the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, worried about the precedent the battle had set.
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A better model is where positive coordination between federal, state, and local agencies can help improve public land management decisions and reduce conflict.
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Backed by the city's parks department, the floating forest circumvents rules about foraging on public land because technically, it is on the water.
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For that matter, there's nothing to stop any future president from creating or eradicating a national monument on any piece of public land.
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Trump defends keeping confederate statues on public land but thinks that athletes kneeling to draw attention to our nation's racial injustices is wrong.
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So she and two university associations, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities and the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities are starting research.
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He was accused of striking a City Council member in Varna and of building his Varna villa on public land without proper permits.
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It is all national public land, roughly 90 times bigger than Manhattan and a third again as large as Grand Canyon National Park.
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Public land is often not registered at all, which poses challenges for cities in raising the taxes needed to provide services for their residents.
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America claims that Canada subsidises the lumber by charging too little to firms that harvest the trees, which are mostly grown on public land.
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The House passed legislation aimed at providing additional protections for more than 28503 million acres of public land on the West Coast on Wednesday.
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However, vast swaths of the public land in the west are not part of designated preserves and are available for activities such as grazing.
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Reviewing Bears Ears — and other monuments — is a component of Trump's effort to boost energy production in the United States, including on public land.
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Trump pledged during the campaign to open vast areas of public land and water to fossil fuel production that had not been allowed before.
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If the trajectory of this first bill is an indication, hunters will be a powerful ally for everyone concerned about preserving America's public land.
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Since taking office, he's halted more than 30 costly environmental regulations, approved two large oil pipelines, and opened up more public land for drilling.
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This violates a fundamental principle of scientifically sound public land management — that of ensuring that management activities collectively do not produce environmentally destructive outcomes.
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President Trump's order shrinking two national monuments in Utah on Monday raised the stakes in a long-simmering fight over federal public land protections.
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"There's an expectation we need to look out 100 years from now to keep the public land experience alive in this country," Zinke said.
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Trump on Tuesday issued surprise pardons to Dwight and Steven Hammond, ranchers who were convicted of setting fire to public land in southeast Oregon.
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Outdoors activists are pushing politicians of all stripes to condemn the group's actions and make it clear they support public land policies and officials.
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"We are strong supporters of the monument, which has protected some of the most biodiverse public land in the United States," the senators wrote.
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The residents of another such outpost, Migron, which Mr. Riklin also helped establish, were moved in 2012 to temporary homes on nearby public land.
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It's time for the Obama administration to get the message and end the reckless rush to auction off our public land to oil companies.
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The revolt started after Trump shrunk several national monuments in the West last year — the largest rollback of public land protection in our history.
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In the West Bank, Palestinians make up about 88 percent of the population but have been allocated less than 1 percent of public land.
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In this view, regulating pollution or setting aside public land means the private sector must be losing — and the administration says that must stop.
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The verdict, announced Wednesday, follows similar votes in other cities, from San Jose to New York City, to relocate controversial artworks on public land.
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The post suggested a coordinated criminal effort among local landowners and cattle ranchers to burn newly cleared rainforest — much of it on public land.
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Makeshift habitations are everywhere — set up under or near freeways, in ravines or canyons and creek beds, and on public land away from view.
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We also see the need to address the lack of diversity among the workforce of public land management agencies, particularly at the federal level.
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Reimpose a moratorium on coal sales from public lands Trump reversed an Obama-era moratorium on new leases of public land for coal development.
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Utah's legislature is considering a bill to restrict local officials' ability to speak in favor of public land protections, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
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In Lebanon, any coastal area touched by waves is deemed public land although arguments over the detail of this are long running, they say.
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So, unlike most federal infrastructure projects, these fences have received little or no input from the public, land managers, conservation groups, or other agencies.
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Yet that hasn't reduced illegal grows on public land in either of those states, or at least "not at this time," according to Boehm.
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Politicians have illegally granted vast tracts of public land to themselves and their allies, ignoring numerous government inquiries calling for their titles to be revoked.
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About 40 percent of the nation's coal is mined on public land, and most of that land is in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
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The Obama administration on Friday proposed a new rule aimed at curbing emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas drilling on public land.
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Watt also talked about selling off public lands, but that never happened, says William Rogers, the president and CEO of The Trust for Public Land.
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John Ruple, a University of Utah professor of public land law, said the state has no legal case and the U.S. Congress controls such transfers.
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The act established a legal procedure by which Native Americans could claim cultural objects and human remains kept in museums or found on public land.
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For these stricter separationists, letting the "immense" cross remain on public land, supported with public funds, is a clear breach of the church-state wall.
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Public land advocates have challenged the administration in federal court over the legality of removing protection from sites that had been designated under the act.
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It released a report Wednesday that championed increased royalty sales from oil and gas drilling on public land as a reason for heightened department revenues.
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The state was destitute then, and paid for the building with three million acres of public land in the Panhandle—about the size of Connecticut.
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The land bill, which has already expired, is a vital source of funding for public land use including hiking trail, monument and battlefield upkeep. Sen.
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Because all that acreage already belonged to the United States, the creation of Grand Staircase didn't increase the total amount of public land in Utah.
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Public land ranchers own their own private ranches, but pay the government significant fees each year to use the land to graze cattle and sheep.
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A lawsuit filed this month involves coal pollution and challenged the U.S. Department of the Interior's decision to restart federal coal leasing on public land.
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And they are already preparing for battles over Mr. Trump's campaign promise to "unleash" coal, oil and gas production — much of it on public land.
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While post-independence governments have settled squatters on public land and private land that they have bought, this has not solved the problem, experts say.
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Skipwith will work on public lands and wildlife issues, and MacGregor will focus on energy development and public land use, according to the Interior Department.
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It "establishes a formula to reimburse local law enforcement based on the percentage of public land in each state," his office said in a statement.
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"I'm not a big fan of the senator's lake plan," he said of Negron's SB 10, though he applauded the effort to use public land.
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In 2001, George W. Bush's libertarian interior secretary, Gale Norton, celebrated this approach as a "marketplace-oriented resolution for public land conflicts" — a win-win.
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According to Politico, he already has a pretty strong track record of protecting the sale of public land, even voting against his party at times.
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The King County Conservation District (KCD), a public land management agency governing 30 cities including Seattle, will soon be electing a new board supervisor position.
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Beyond that, other governments in foreign countries have eased environmental regulations, given public land and granted permits for projects bearing the Trump name, McClatchy reported.
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The subsequent need to replenish local coffers has prompted a fire sale of public land and services, with public housing one of the biggest casualties.
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INTERIOR FINALIZES METHANE RULE ROLLBACK: The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized its plans to weaken regulations on methane gas releases from drilling on public land.
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"This bill undermines bedrock environmental and public land management laws in order to create a perpetual lease for a foreign-owned, toxic mine," said Rep.
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In the Interior Department, the methane rule for oil and natural gas drillers on public land is due for a proposed repeal in January 85033.
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Measures could include using well-located public land for affordable housing, and changing the zoning on existing redevelopment sites to include such accommodation, she said.
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Uncertainty over the interpretation of laws governing public land has added to confusion over the future of the beach at Ramlet al-Baida, lawyers say.
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The plaintiffs claimed that the port and city authorities unlawfully allowed public land to be leased to a private foundation without any public bidding process.
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Odd Lots in the City Here are some of the unusual lots included in the city's competition to design affordable housing on irregular public land.
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"We wanted to make sure that if the government sold off precious public land in California, we would be able to weigh in," Mr. Allen said.
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If confirmed, he would wield the power to reverse many of the previous administration's environmentally friendly policies, like blocking oil and gas drilling on public land.
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We subsidize the ranchers, while a majority of our public land users generate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and never threaten to kill a forest ranger.
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Today, the basement, railroad tracks, footbridge and surrounding area are preserved as part of a memorial that lies on both public land and the ECB premises.
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The takeover was another flare-up in a decades-old conflict over federal control of millions of acres of public land in the Western United States.
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The Public Land Renewable Development Act (PLREDA) has been bouncing around Congress for several years, and it may finally have the momentum it needs to pass.
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To prevent deforestation, the ONF - which manages public forests - has warned against cutting live wood and is only felling dead or infected trees on public land.
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"The fires destroyed evidence of the deer slaughter and took about 130 acres of public land out of public use for two years," the prosecutor wrote.
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To placate the country's moggy lovers, cats are mostly off the list at the moment, though feral felines living on public land will be legitimate targets.
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It is about preserving public land in the center of the world's largest binational community at the doorsteps of one of the nation's most undeserved communities.
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Bernhardt in the memo blocks part of BLM's management plan, released two days earlier, that identified acres of public land that could be sold off privately.
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Bernhardt in the memo reverses part of BLM's management plan, released two days earlier, that identified acres of public land that could be sold off privately.
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Taking land maintenance work into account, public land ranchers ultimately save the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than $750 million in taxpayer dollars each year.
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Several natural resources sectors — including oil and gas, ranching and grazing, and the timber industries — have said the law prevents them from operating on public land.
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Where other countries have rigid national laws governing public land, China's land administration system gives a great deal of authority to leaders at the local level.
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Conservatives, industry groups and reformers pushing to overhaul public land policy say there's a lot to like from the first month of GOP control in Washington.
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Experts argue that much of the money derived from drilling on public land is already spoken for and included in general congressional budget determinations each year.
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Spare bedrooms and garages with one or two grow lights, large greenhouses, warehouses, and clandestine farms on public land can be found all over the state.
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Sickened by the ravages of hide hunters, he protected 230 million acres of public land during his presidency, including a stunning parcel of North Dakota Badlands.
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Native American tribes across the U.S. and Canada are linking up to demand a greater say in how to manage public land and protect the environment.
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Residents of Canada's most remote northern territory are heading to the ballot box today to determine whether public land can be sold to individuals and corporations.
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The increasing popularity of trail biking has brought to the fore some of the inherent conflicts in the uses of public land — natural regions or playgrounds.
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Conservatives, though, say the rule -- called "Planning 28503" -- gives federal regulators too much power over public land and moves state and local input to the backburner.
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While a variety of U.S. states maintain LERs on public land, the B.C. regime is unique in covering logs harvested on both public and private lands.
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Public land managers and forest landowners may be able to influence fire behavior in certain settings with techniques such as hazardous fuels reduction and prescribed fire.
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The act has mostly been used since then by presidents to turn public land into national monuments protected forever from commercial development or future mineral exploitation.
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But conservationists are concerned that the bill streamlines approval for local authorities and private landowners to fell trees on public land parcels smaller than 3,000 acres.
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The occupation of the Oregon wildlife refuge was led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy as a protest against federal control over public land in the West.
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And it ignores the rights of the vast majority of Americans who have an equal stake in public land ownership, but don't happen to live nearby.
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Instead of supporting an attempt by park staff to shed light on a critical threat to public land, Zinke told Superintendent David Smith to shut up.
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Conservatives have opposed the BLM's regulation, which they say gives the federal government too much influence over public land decisions and marginalizes state and local input.
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In Vancouver three groups joined forces with a developer to purchase 14m square feet (1.3m square metres) of public land at a discount to the market price.
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She does not, however, support a blanket ban on new oil and gas leases on public land, as called for in a bill from Sanders and Sen.
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Environmentalists brought the lawsuit against the city of Chicago for the offering of public land for the private project, which former President Barack Obama announced in 2015.
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At home, he's passed regulations to lower emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and plants, he's boosted renewable energy, and set new records for protecting public land.
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The boundary changes for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments will threaten ancient art and artifacts on millions of acres of previously protected public land.
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They told me they were interested in fundamentally reshaping the American landscape and forcing the federal government to hand vast tracts of public land to local authorities.
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British Columbia Environment Minister George Heyman told reporters in Vancouver it is unlikely that Kinder Morgan can begin work on public land by its September construction target.
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San Francisco is unique because all residents in the study were able to get to the park in 10 minutes, according to the Trust for Public Land.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently lifted Obama-era restrictions on coal mining on public land, and signed a $22 million coal mining lease for land in Utah.
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The committee was formed last year to advise Zinke on whether the government was getting a fair price from resources companies for their use of public land.
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The takeover at Malheur was the latest flare-up in a decades-old conflict over federal control of millions of acres of public land in the West.
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The answer is complicated, going back to a long dispute between ranchers and the federal government over public land, and even to the Bundy family's religious beliefs.
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During the campaign, he also promised to lift a moratorium on coal leasing on public land, something that's likely to happen within his executive order as well.
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" When asked whether he and fellow militiamen had the right to take up arms to assert their control of the public land, Bundy declared: "Ask George Washington.
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If they do, it could potentially set the stage of a new concerted push by Democrats to pass legislation addressing environment, public land and climate change issues.
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Their policies encourage privatizing public land where possible, expanding oil and gas leases, increasing timber productivity and mining, and opening more federal lands to hunting and fishing.
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The area was donated to the park by The Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit conservation organization that purchased Ackerson Meadow for $2.3 million earlier this year.
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Almost two-thirds of Utah is federally managed public land, and of that, the BLM administers more than 22 million acres, or 43 percent of the state.
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"At the same time, I have [a] deep respect for the plaintiffs' sincere objections to seeing the cross on public land," he wrote in a concurring opinion.
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He is also the first president to take regulatory action to fight climate change, which administration officials say poses a threat specifically to public land and water.
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The Interior Department, which is the federal government's main land holder, is using Obama's trip to release its annual report on the economic impact of public land.
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But Bundy said the Malheur takeover also was part of larger conflict over the U.S. government's control of millions of acres of public land in the West.
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I was surprised at the verdict, was offended that individuals would hijack a piece of public land set aside for the recreation and enjoyment of all citizens.
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And we will need to pass the "Keep It in the Ground Act," legislation that would end new mining and drilling for fossil fuels on public land.
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As the forest industry has disappeared across this landscape, so have the mills, rural jobs for foresters, and private and public land owners' capacity to manage forests.
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On September 26, Philadelphia unveiled a permanent statue of civil rights activist Octavius Catto — the first monument dedicated to an African American on public land in Philadelphia.
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Hilltops were leveled, forests and native vegetation cleared, streams destroyed and polluted, wildlife poisoned and killed, public land turned into dumping grounds for trash, pesticides, and fertilizers.
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What I found was that we can all agree on wanting to protect these objects of historic or scientific interest while ensuring public access to public land.
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The Amona leaders have publicly rejected the idea of relocating to the alternative site on what the government declared to be state, or public, land near Shilo.
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"Every acre of public land is vulnerable until Zinke's out of the secretary's chair," said Patrick Donnelly, the Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Because Halliburton is the nation's largest oil services company and Mr. Zinke regulates the oil industry on public land, the deal raised questions about conflict of interest.
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VISO I think the fact that it is on public land, open and accessible 365 days a year — there's a different responsibility of artwork in civic space.
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"He has built one of the strongest track records on championing regulatory relief, forest management, responsible energy development and public land issues," Trump said in a statement.
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The state effort to suppress science and free speech specifically targeted Western Watersheds Project's documentation of chronic fecal coliform contamination of public waterways by public land ranchers.
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Perhaps it's time to level the playing field between public and private lands and charge public-land ranchers the average market rate charged for comparable private lands.
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The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU) recently provided recommendations for agencies implementing the Obama administration's public access requirements.
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Construction could begin as soon as three months from now on land owned by the Defense Department, with others on public land to come down the line.
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The misleadingly named "National Monument Creation and Protection Act," which narrowly passed the House Natural Resources Committee last week, is an assault on our public land heritage.
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Mr. Trump, who campaigned on rolling back Mr. Obama's environmental legacy, had in particular hoped to end his predecessor's freeze on mining for coal on public land.
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But if so, cities will have to think not just about the immediate problems at hand, but about the consequences of addressing them through privatizing public land.
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Nine federal departments, including the Department of the Interior - whose BLM handles permits for oil and gas drilling on public land - have been affected, to varying degrees.
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The strain on Ulaanbaatar's infrastructure has forced the city to rethink its planning of urban spaces, and drawn criticism for the sale of public land to wealthy buyers.
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Cliven Bundy was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges in Nevada related to a dispute in 2014 with the authorities there over cattle grazing rights on public land.
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The same has happened in New Mexico, and serves as a cautionary tale of what could happen if more public land is transferred to the states, Brooks says.
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Diane Regas, the CEO of the Trust for Public Land, wrote a letter to President Trump on Thursday urging him to close all national parks during the shutdown.
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His Interior Department oversees more than 20 percent of federal land, including national parks such as Yosemite, and deals with energy development on public land and offshore areas.
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But this Gang That Can't Protest Straight is not far removed from a better-dressed crowd in Congress pushing for radical change in the nation's public land endowment.
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Trump's order laid the groundwork for several administrative actions, including undoing the Clean Power Plan regulation for power plants and lifting a moratorium on public land coal leasing.
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For the Bundys and their followers, it boils down to what they feel is the federal government being overly protective of public land and treating the Hammonds unfairly.
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The giant site was largely public land, but to attract private builders much of it will be turned over to commercial use for hotels, shops and airport services.
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The BLM, a federal agency which manages more than 245m acres of public land, is a whipping-boy for the environmental left and the anti-government right alike.
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The Trump administration is abruptly ending a decades-long program that trained national wildlife refuge managers with law enforcement capabilities to police often remote spots of public land.
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Public land managers, both state and federal, need options to address the problem with tools and policies that meet the unique needs of our western lands and wildlife.
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It would also require that 1.5 percent of the money paid from the fund go to increasing access to public land by hunters, anglers and other recreation purposes.
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Ryan Zinke (R) to lead the Interior Department, the New York Times reported this weekend, a decision driven in part by his interest in maintaining public land ownership.
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He steered clear of reports that he plans crippling budget cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency and to open more public land to the ravages of coal mining.
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John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said the energy bill could include a vote on whether to reverse President Obama's three-year moratorium on new coal leasing on public land.
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But the shortage of public land in Texas — a unabashedly pro-business state — means that eminent domain cases to take private land for "a public use" are common.
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The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to limit venting and flaring natural gas at wells on public land, practices that let methane into the atmosphere.
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It also comes amid congressional threats to public land, including the House's Puerto Rico bankruptcy bill, which allows for the sale of a wildlife refuge in the territory.
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"He cares about good design and has experience interacting with the public sector," added Mr. Benepe, the director of city park development at the Trust for Public Land.
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The governor also shaved 19 percent from the $113,369,000 budget of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources" and "started leasing oil and gas rights on public land.
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Woolfers have also swapped houses and apartments, rented each other rooms and raised money for groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Trust for Public Land.
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Many of those plans run directly counter to Trump's policies, including placing moratoriums on drilling on public land, ending fracking, and transitioning away from coal and natural gas.
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Even if the ruins were on public land, it would not be feasible to stabilize them in a way that makes them accessible to the public, he added.
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He delivers a painstaking history of how public land became real estate, and how hundreds if not thousands of people were pushed aside by one or two barons.
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When the Antiquities Act was signed into law in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, the legal infrastructure for protecting public land in the United States was virtually nonexistent.
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The company said it expects the ratio to continue to drop in the next two to three years as it becomes more careful in its public land acquisitions.
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Despite signing several bills that support Native rights in December 2019, President Trump's consistent stance has been to open as much public land to extractive industries as possible.
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Countryside, which regenerates public land and builds houses on its own plots, also said it was seeing strong customer demand, favourable mortgage lending conditions and "good political support".
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The justices will have a chance to explain when the government can display religious symbols on public land and clarify the court's somewhat muddled precedent on the issue.
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His was one of four companies that responded in 2014 to a request for proposals by BVIEC to install solar panels on public land, including the main airport.
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In addition to wanting to expand the two holes onto public land, the company asked for an extension of its 20-year contract, by an additional 20 years.
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If confirmed, Mr. Bernhardt will lead a sprawling department that oversees the nation's nearly 500 million acres of public land, including vast national monuments and protected wilderness areas.
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Mr. Bundy, 69, could "very well spend the rest of his life in jail," said Michael Blumm, a law professor at Lewis & Clark College who studies public land issues.
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The Trust for Public Land reports that there are currently 810 dog parks between the 0003 largest cities in the United States, which is a 74% increase since 2009.
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In its mission statement, the American Lands Council says its strategy for securing local control of public land in the West involves four tenets: education, negotiation, legislation and litigation.
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These latest designations come just over a week before Obama leaves office — a last-minute effort to set aside swaths of public land with historic, cultural, and ecological importance.
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These include measures to allow rural property owners to regularize up to 2,500 hectares of public land if they have been farming it, up from the current 1,500 hectares.
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From Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chattanooga, Philadelphia, and Boston have come the tales: of monied startups dropping their new, zippy devices onto public land—and into loud public debate.
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It will only operate the scooters on private land — Olympic Park — and if riders deviate from the route or onto public land, the GPS-tracked scooters will power down.
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Ethics at the Interior Department, steward of 500 million acres of public land and vast coastal waters, have been under scrutiny since the early days of the Trump administration.
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Jones spent a lot of his time at refuges in North Dakota policing neighbors to make sure they were not draining the wetlands on or near the public land.
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A House committee will vote this week on a bipartisan bill that would direct some money from offshore and federal land oil production to improve parks and public land.
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The Trump administration, more recently, has placed emphasis on natural resource extraction, releasing a report Wednesday that championed increased royalty sales from oil and gas drilling on public land.
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The study found that as public land increasingly grew as a source of total coal production in the U.S., the government has failed to recoup appropriate revenue for itself.
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"The border is complicated, as far as building a physical wall," he said during a speech to the Public Land Council in Washington, D.C., according to E&E News.
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In so many countries that I covered in Southeast Asia it was a given that the elites would take over public land as a kind of perquisite of power.
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The company put a splash page on its website proclaiming, "The President Stole Your Land," urging customers to support public land advocacy groups and tweet their disapproval to Trump.
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ADRIAN BENEPE New York The writer, a senior vice president of the Trust for Public Land, was New York City commissioner of parks and recreation from 2002 to 2012.
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That means that when the government considers public land mining projects they should be designed to protect our environment and carried out in a manner consistent with our values.
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Cliven Bundy, Ammon and Ryan's father, led the family into confrontation in an armed standoff in 2014 against federal officials over illegal cattle grazing on public land in Nevada.
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Dubbed the Republican Roosevelt Conservation Caucus after National Park Service founder President Theodore Roosevelt, the bicameral group lists public land access, water quality and ocean pollution among its priorities.
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INTERIOR MOVES TO PROTECT ACCESS TO PUBLIC LANDS: Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Thursday ordered that federal land managers consider public access when selling or trading public land.
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The Interior Department, responsible for the nation's national parks, offshore drilling, wildlife refuges and much of its public land, would absorb a cut of $1.4 billion, or 10.9 percent.
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The rule would open or expand 2202,2628 acres to hunting and allow for the first time a number of new activities on the public land, including big game hunting.
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"We need to embrace the radical, time-tested and profoundly democratic idea of public-land protection that was invented in the United States," he wrote in an Op-Ed.
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Ms. Rillera, 31, is a federal-affairs lobbyist in Washington for the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco organization that works to establish parks and other protected areas.
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Mr. Trump, in contrast, has struck a far more favorable tone toward those who want to loosen regulation on public land, and he has been aided by Mr. Zinke.
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Battles over private and public land have been a defining part of the West since the 1800s, when the federal government began doling out free acres to encourage expansion.
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It provides the president with the unique opportunity to create a national monument from public land so that it can be protected and appreciated for all Americans to enjoy.
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It would amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 by severely restricting the president's ability to independently designate national monuments on public land to protect natural, historic and cultural treasures.
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In 33, for example, California's Department of Fish and Wildlife investigated cases where thousands of succulents had been taken from public land to be sold online for $50 each.
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Among those singled out is the Bedford-Union Armory project, a redevelopment on public land by BFC Partners that includes half market-rate apartments and also a recreational center.
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"There are some very vocal, very upset people that have sincerely felt pain," said John Ruple, a professor at the University of Utah's law school who studies public land.
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In general, they wrote, large Latin crosses on public land run afoul of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which forbids the government from favoring one religious denomination over another.
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Republicans and Democrats alike have used the law to protect millions of acres of public land, and its supporters say it is a bedrock of the American conservation legacy.
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Mr. Zinke, a fifth-generation Montanan who now oversees the country's 500 million acres of public land, including 23 national parks, showed up to work to a grand reception.
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Many of the people we met were introduced to us by the Idaho Wildlife Federation, which has been trying to track road closings that block access to public land.
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Whoever was behind this 30,000-plant operation left behind 8,000 pounds of trash and 8,000 pounds of irrigation line over 15 acres of what was previously pristine public land.
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The federal Bureau of Land Management — which oversees vast expanses of public land, mostly in the West — says the problem facing wild horses stems from overpopulation aggravated by severe drought.
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Duterte later invited the leftists into the palace and spoke to them about ideas he had to distribute millions of hectares of public land to farmers and release political prisoners.
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"Creating a public land bank at the village level is a simple and effective way to regulate rural land demand and supply," she said on a visit to New Delhi.
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On the question of whether the cross should be retained because of its historic nature, Sotomayor pointed out that there are few large crosses on public land across the nation.
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From very small local parks, to vast stretches of land, the Trust for Public Land guides the creation of public spaces that transform neighborhoods and the lives of their inhabitants.
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Of course, the Trust for Public Land is deeply concerned by the threat of Trump-era environmental politics, and you can head to their website for ways to take action.
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All of these are A-OK in Arizona, where the state Bureau of Land Management lets people open fire on public land, as long as folks clean up after themselves.
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The varying recommendations made the monument review a closely watched indicator of Trump's attitude about regulation and public land — which some would like to tap for possible mining and drilling.
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Should he be confirmed, Zinke would helm the organization that manages 500 million acres of public land, 1.7 billion acres of ocean, and the land's fossil fuel and mineral rights.
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Due to the small strips of public land the trail travels along, camping options are limited, and the National Park Service (NPS) recommends completing the trail in sections over time.
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Ranchers, environmentalists, birders, Native Americans and federal officials have long tussled over the use of public land in Harney County, just as people have in other communities across the West.
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Dwight Hammond, 76, and Steven, 49, were convicted in 2012 for setting a fire that spread onto public land after years of disputes with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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Politico reported Friday that Jason Hairston, who founded and leads hunting gear company Kuiu, won't be paid for his role as a go-between on conservation and public land policies.
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This makes it easy for cartels to collude with land officials to create parallel titles for parcels of land they want to acquire illegally, public land being the prime target.
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The order is likely to lift a moratorium on new leasing of coal mining on public land, and could take aim at other climate measures crafted by the Obama administration.
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Even with a large expansion of such drilling on public land, experts say it is difficult to predict a new such revenue stream at the scale envisioned by Mr. Trump.
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Even so, the secretary has not released his proposal publicly and most certainly, President Trump has yet to act on the recommendations, leaving proponents of public land conservation in limbo.
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In the last year, off-leash dog parks in the 100 biggest cities have grown by 4 percent, according to the Trust for Public Land, to a total of 684.
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Oil and gas companies are sitting on over 19 million acres of unused public land leases, while over 7,500 approved drilling permits on U.S. public lands are undrilled and idled.
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"I'm not done fighting for the people of Colorado," he said in a video attacking Washington over pre-existing conditions, prescription prices and the opening of public land to developers.
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That's why softening the rules governing wilderness areas, as some lawmakers have proposed, would defy the spirit of U.S public land protection and lead, almost inevitably, down a slippery slope.
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This ban on public-land fracking is all the more critical in light of the recent court decision negating the federal government's ability to regulate such activity in any form.
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The policy mechanism now in place is somewhat shoehorned into the BLM's authority to permit rights of way through public land, usually for electric transmission lines, roads or communications infrastructure.
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Wind and solar companies say that unlike oil or gold companies operating on public land, they aren't taking away finite resources, so bidding competitions, royalties and similar charges aren't appropriate.
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The government's plan is to move them to the newly approved settlement, built on public land, which would initially have 98 houses and eventually could accommodate up to 300 houses.
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While the Bundy family and radical ranchers out west talk of seizing public land for themselves, we should be having the opposite conversation — about opening up the country for everyone.
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Citing a study that says ending drilling on public lands would prevent 450 billion tons of carbon from polluting the atmosphere, activists are intensifying their focus on public land auctions.
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The justices already have high-profile disputes over the administration's plan for a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, religious monuments on public land and partisan gerrymanders on their agenda.
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In 1996, President Bill Clinton stunned Utahns, including the governor at the time, Mike Leavitt, by turning about two million acres of public land into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Mr. Benepe, now the director of city park development at the Trust for Public Land, said he could not remember another instance of parkland being repurposed for mostly private use.
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In 1956, the city's newly formed metropolitan government announced that it was converting the islands' residential and commercial properties, all on leased public land, into a park and began demolition.
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The naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams fights to preserve her Utah roots by buying up parcels of federal public land at auction to prevent the oilmen from drilling there.
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Mr. Trump's son Donald Jr. quashed a competing candidate, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State, because of her support for selling off public land, a senior Republican official said.
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But supporters of the effort -- a push by greens to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels by ending future development on public land -- said it shows their cause has momentum.
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Jewell put out a secretary's order Friday that outlines steps various land management agencies should take to better facilitate public land use by disadvantaged, at-risk and disabled young people.
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After that, the Nevada trial of the elder Mr. Bundy appeared to be the government's last chance to show that disobeying the law on public land would not be tolerated.
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"This is in line with the Trump administration's approach to cutting the public out of the process to protect public land," said Randi Spivak of the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Obama also raised fuel economy standards for cars, restricted fossil fuel extraction on public land, and, under immense pressure from environmental activists, axed plans for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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Adam Cramer, Executive Director of Outdoor Alliance: But these places also have a social value: most climbing areas, mountain biking trails, whitewater runs, they're on public land—especially in the West.
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AC: The executive order demanding Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review national monuments is an appalling, audacious initiative to revisit federal public land designations, with the aim of rolling back protections.
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The Commerce Department last month began collecting duties averaging 271.8 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, saying that the product's origin from public land amounted to an unfair government subsidy.
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Today, Obama is scheduled to announce national monument status for parts of Southern California's Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, which will almost double the public land the president has protected thus far.
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According to him, land grabbers boosted forest destruction seeking to guarantee possession of vast swaths of public land in the Amazon before a new rural register enters into force in 2017.
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Last year Moritomo Gakuen, the firm that runs the kindergarten, bought a plot of public land in the city of Osaka at a knock-down price—perhaps 14% of its value.
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The valuation rule was proposed by former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in 2016 to close a loophole that enabled companies to dodge royalty payments when mining on taxpayer-owned public land.
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Chile has committed to investing 350 million pesos ($518,000) to the establishment of staffing and maintenance for the newly public land, including hiring 25 park guards, CONAF said in a statement.
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Former President Barack Obama had imposed the coal moratorium pending a government study on the impacts of coal mining on public land, cheering environmentalists but upsetting parts of the coal industry.
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The conflict over public land goes back decades and is at the heart of high profile incidents such as the armed standoffs led by the Bundy family in 2014 and 2016.
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Mr Neumann is currently bidding against Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX, for the right to develop a large tract of public land near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
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President Obama plans to designate three new national monuments in the California desert, a 1.8-million-acre area that nearly doubles the amount of public land he has protected as president.
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A maximum of ten percent of the customary land in each community will be set aside as public land, it added, and a nationwide survey will be conducted within two years.
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This is viewed as a notable bipartisan victory for environmentalists at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously rolling back public land protections in favor of coal and big oil.
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Analysts at Simmons & Co, energy specialists at U.S. investment bank Piper Jaffray, said it amended its rig count forecast lower because some public land drillers said they would run fewer rigs.
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The Commerce Department last month began collecting duties averaging 20 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, saying that the product's origin from public land amounted to an unfair government subsidy.
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" In 1958, under Public Land Order 1662, the 38,400-acre land area was "withdrawn from public use by the US Atomic Energy Commission, a predecessor to the US Department of Energy.
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Centered in the Deep South but stretching from California to Massachusetts, roughly 1,500 Confederate symbols still exist on public land more than 150 years after the conclusion of the Civil War.
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Bundy doesn't seem to believe that the federal government should control rural public land; he and his followers have taken a stand and intend to protest as long as it takes.
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Topics likely to be discussed include the Trump administration's recent rule to delist gray wolves, attempts to roll back Endangered Species Act protections, and how drilling on public land affects wildlife.
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On the issue of the environment, he earned the moniker "conservation president" for creating the U.S. Forest Service and safeguarding 85033 million acres of public land through the American Antiquities Act.
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Vira, 61, had sought information under India's Right to Information Act on encroachments of public land and illegal land dealings in a city that has among the world's priciest real estate.
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Backed by a Congress whose Republican majorities disfavor resource preservation, the president and the agency officials he appointed have blasted away at the foundations of public land law with a vengeance.
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Supporters of the CRA action have long hunted for enough votes to pass the resolution, which would nix an Interior Department rule regulating methane emissions from drilling sites on public land.
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Fossil fuel industry officials, academics, and state and tribal representatives will hold seats on a new Interior Department committee designed to assess federal royalty policies for energy development on public land.
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The ranchers had long clashed with the federal government over public land, and the length of their sentences infuriated many conservatives, who saw the prosecutions as an example of federal overreach.
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That's especially true in places like the West, where an overnight on public land (the National Forests, for example) is either free or far more affordable than, say, the National Parks.
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In Montezuma County, Colorado, where I live, work, and farm, we have all kinds of people using public land: ranchers, miners, hunters, backpackers and off-road enthusiasts are just a few.
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It essentially aims to legitimize a proposal from the Interior Department's fiscal 2019 budget request that would fund the national park backlog through oil, gas and mineral extraction on public land.
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The Interior Department has proposed a number of regulations on methane leaks, but has yet to write a regulation governing such leaks from current oil and gas drilling on public land.
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The leasing process seeks to ensure a fair return to taxpayers on the use of public land by private companies and makes sure energy development is done well from the beginning.
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If you can't stand the thought of Robert E. Lee in a museum rather than a place of dominance on public land, then white supremacy is what you aim to protect.
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"I stopped about two weeks ago," said Ms. Dadras, who commutes from Queens to Lower Manhattan to her job as a director at the Trust for Public Land, a conservation group.
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Mr. Horting and his wife, Kim, built a cabin in those woods in 2006, right by Boise Ridge Road, which led to a popular recreation area built mostly on public land.
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I had better luck with the weather the next day, when I took a quick tour through the beautiful Bonaventure Cemetery, a former plantation site that became public land in 210.
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Taxpayers get 211 percent of revenues produced from any oil or gas extracted from leased public land — or nothing but trivial rent payments if speculators fail to develop the land successfully.
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On the edge of the wild horse range in Challis in central Idaho, Jackie Ingram, a rancher, has shared 168,700 acres of public land with the mustang herds for 46 years.
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The arrival of the National Park Service posed a new challenge: because the Timbisha were never recognized as a tribe, they had no legal standing when Death Valley became public land.
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But the push for the plan continued, despite complaints that it would take public land for private enterprise, and the almost unprecedented efforts to replace small business owners with bigger ones.
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Monument Hill, also called Monument Mountain, stands within this stretch of desert, and is part of the Roosevelt Reservation, a sixty foot-wide swathe of public land across the southern border.
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The Senate on Monday night will kick off the process for repealing a Bureau of Land Management planning rule, which the Obama administration hoped would reform and update public land strategies.
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Two industry leaders in uranium mining are challenging the Interior Department's authority to place a 20-year mining ban on 1 million acres of public land next to the Grand Canyon.
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There's a new wave of bills aimed at transferring the decision-making authority over public land management from federal agencies to individual states—a move that's as good as transferring ownership.
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The artist is walking away from a vast public work he had planned for public land in Colorado, on which he'd spent $15 million of his own money over 20 years.
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The agency, which has an annual budget of more than $2294 billion and manages over 271 million acres of public land, is moving its headquarters from Washington to Grand Junction, Colorado.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed ready on Wednesday to allow a 40-foot cross honoring soldiers who died in World War I to remain in place on public land in Maryland.
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The city has long grappled with how to deal with vacant public land that comes into its possession — often through unpaid taxes — even as the need for affordable housing has grown.
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Members of the public tweeting in and speaking from the floor called for faster action to reclaim public land, particularly when developers have clearly built illegal structures close to streams and rivers.
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Companies that steal trees from public land or protected forests have lower costs because they do not have to deal with environmental assessments, taxes or the bureaucracy of certifying their forest products.
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Local officials and housing experts say it is a symptom of widening economic inequality, one that is especially sharply felt in tiny resort towns hemmed in by beautiful but undevelopable public land.
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He created the United States Forest Service, protected 22019 million acres of public land, and signed into law the Antiquities Act, which he used to protect national monuments including the Grand Canyon.
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In fact, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) pointed out that Zinke himself recently voted for a House rules package that devalues public land, making it easier for states to take it over.
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That project, called ARES Nevada, will consist in a 5.5-mile track traveling up an 8-degree slope, covering 203 acres of public land near the delightfully named town of Pahrump, Nevada.
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As part of its congressional mandate to balance commercial and environmental concerns, including conservation, the federal government imposes reasonable rules on how public land can be used for mining, logging and ranching.
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"It's huge," said Marc A. Matsil, the New York State director of the Trust for Public Land, referring to the decision by the order to turn most of its property into parkland.
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The court's five conservatives as well as Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer agreed that the cross should remain on public land, while liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
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The American Prairie Reserve (APR) is buying up large swathes of private cattle ranchland in northeastern Montana and also applying for grazing permits on about 220,280 acres (121,000 hectares) of public land.
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The Senate voted 22019-48 to undo the BLM "Planning 2.0" rule, which conservatives say gives the federal government too much influence over public land decisions and marginalizes state and local input.
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It would mean rapid, aggressive decarbonization in every country in the world, especially developed nations like the US. So here's our simple question: What would it mean for coal on public land?
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Senators are also likely to probe how he approaches issues like mining, drilling and fracking on public land, conservation efforts, the National Parks Service and running a 85033,000-employee, $12 billion department.
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"But I worry that she's too exclusionary," Ms. Funabashi said, citing Ms. Koike's promise to revoke a lease of public land to a new school for Korean residents living in the city.
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The subcommittee's bill stopped short of severely cutting back on Interior's Land Water Conservation Fund, which moves some funding from offshore oil drilling royalties into land conservation and public land access efforts.
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A 2011 study conducted by University of Idaho Extension Agricultural Economists found that public land ranchers pay on average $1.20 per animal unit (AUM) more than those who graze on private land.
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The Interior Department has proposed a number of regulations on methane leaks, but it has yet to write a regulation governing such leaks from current oil and gas drilling on public land.
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Public land is being sold off to developers; homelessness is reaching heights not seen in the city since the Great Depression; and most of the arts community hangs on by a thread.
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HOUSE BLOCKS PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT RULE: The House passed a resolution on Tuesday to undo an Obama administration land planning rule that opponents say gives too much power to the federal government.
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Wolf packs have large territories — Profanity's was about 350 square miles, and it overlapped with parts of the Colville National Forest where ranchers lease public land to graze their cattle for market.
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If you force the Trump administration to stop bingeing on public land, you can make an immediate impact on the amount of earth-warming carbon the United States spits into the atmosphere.
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And it was that sort of injunction, acknowledging the role of drilling on public land in harming us all, that temporarily shut down new leasing on 300,000 acres in Wyoming this month.
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"We don't let people put their self-storage containers in public parks, but it's just fine to store their cars on other public land for free," Mr. Tumlin wrote in an email.
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Kay Ivey (R) has made steps to counter and prevent the removal of such monuments, signing legislation that would pre-empt counties and cities from taking down Confederate statues on public land.
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Some experts have commented that Abe's approval rating may have declined due to scandals surrounding the prime minister, the most recent being a private school linked to Abe buying discounted public land.
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The Interior Department approved a transfer of 560 acres of public land to the U.S. Army to build about 70 miles of border wall, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced Wednesday.
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Other artists looking at economic matters include Irena Haiduk, who has created a digital apparatus for museumgoers to purchase public land in Serbia, after a privatization measure recently adopted in that country.
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"Oil and gas lease sales on public land directly support domestic energy production and the president's energy dominance and job growth priorities for America," Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt said.
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In January, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, introduced legislation that called for the sale, or "disposal," of 3.3 million acres of public land in Arizona, Colorado, Montana and other Western states.
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Susan D. Whiting is board chair for the National Women's History Museum, a trustee for the Chicago Academy of Sciences' Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The Trust for Public Land, and Denison University.
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Landrieu has seen a heavy media presence after he defended his decision to remove Confederate memorials from the public land in New Orleans, leading to a reignited debate about removing Confederate symbols.
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JERUSALEM — Over five decades in control of the West Bank, Israel has marked out hundreds of thousands of acres as public land, and it has allocated almost half of them for use.
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Susan D. Whiting is board chair for the National Women's History Museum, a trustee for the Chicago Academy of Sciences' Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The Trust for Public Land, and Denison University.
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The dad and son have been sentenced to five years in prison for starting fires in 2001 and 2006 — supposedly to kill invasive species and protect their ranch — that damaged public land.
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Wednesday marked the 40th day of the occupation, which began after Ammon Bundy, an anti-government protester, encouraged a group of militia to occupy the refuge in protest of public land-use policies.
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We are witnessing the pairing of debt and crisis to serve the neoliberal goal of extreme privatization around the world: from the selling off of public land in Greece to water in Detroit.
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People love the beauty that surrounds them, but seethe at policies that they say have whittled away logging and mining jobs, left national forests vulnerable to wildfires and blocked access to public land.
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I visited the Bundy family last year on their remote ranch and melon farm in southeastern Nevada for research I'm conducting on the history of Mormon culture and the use of public land.
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Sonja earns her living translating a Swedish crime writer, Gosta Svensson, an idolised star of noir who tends in his books to leave "mutilated women and children…rotting everywhere on Scandinavian public land".
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In 2014, family patriarch Cliven Bundy led an armed standoff against federal agents, turning the region into a flashpoint in a long-running controversy over how to use vast swaths of public land.
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The government leases tracts of public land — primarily, but not exclusively, in the Powder River Basin, in Montana and Wyoming — to coal companies, which mine it and sell the coal at a profit.
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Local officials and activists in Toronto have raised concerns about how Sidewalk Labs could collect a massive trove of data and have criticized the amount of public land the company seeks to develop.
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"Together we will usher in a bright new future of wonder and wealth," said Trump while speaking at Utah's State Capitol in a push for fewer restrictions and more development on public land.
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"If blockchain can help secure their farming livelihoods, then it's welcomed," said Clement Lenachuru, a commissioner at Kenya's National Land Commission, an independent government body set up in 2012 to manage public land.
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"It is a gift to the incoming administration that may well seek to expand this privatization of our public land for political and financial benefits of the wealthy and empowered," Verheyden-Hilliard continued.
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OREGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One year after U.S. President Donald Trump declared the biggest rollback of public land protection in the country's history, conservation groups have rallied to protect other at-risk places.
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Stewart passionately rallied against removing Confederate statues from public land across the state, traveling to cities such as Charlottesville to protest local government decisions about the statues and regularly tweeting about Confederate pride.
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The proposed leasing rule would codify this system with a megawatt capacity fee and create a competitive bidding process for the right to build and operate utility-scale renewable projects on public land.
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By 2015, hundreds of thousands of acres of public land were leased out and much of it went to people close to Fidesz, according to records obtained from the government and Mr. Angyan.
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The agencies represent an important piece of the fossil fuel production in the United States, supplying, for example, about 40 percent of the country's coal production through private companies' leases on public land.
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"Oil and gas lease sales on public land directly support domestic energy production and the president's energy dominance and job growth priorities for America," Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said at the time.
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The bill creates 2.7 million acres of energy development zones, where fossil fuel development is designated by law as "the highest management priority" of public land — reversing the goals of multiple use management.
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These slums often sat on prime parcels of public land, and many redevelopment sites are now dotted with luxury residences, with the requirement to provide on-site housing for former residents largely ignored.
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Adrian Benepe, a senior vice president for the Trust for Public Land who served as the city's parks commissioner from 2002 to 2012, said crowded parks were becoming a problem in many neighborhoods.
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The tenfold boost in electricity production from sources like wind, solar and geothermal is one of the top features of a conservation and public land agenda the Democratic presidential candidate rolled out Wednesday.
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"For decades, the federal government has kept their head in the sand over the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction on public land," Sierra Club official Mike Scott said in a press release.
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"It's illegal to live on public land," we hear (so much for the pioneer spirit), yet their existence is more than a crime, because it goes against the grain of our civic faith.
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Rather, it's under scrutiny for how it maintains its sprawling infrastructure that delivers electricity to some 16 million Californians -- much of it via above-ground power lines running through heavily forested public land.
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It has allowed mining companies, many from foreign countries, to extract billions of dollars of public land minerals without paying a dime in royalties to the owner of those minerals — the American people.
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Each piece of artwork is a visual representation of Yosemite's mythic history, beginning in the late-19th century when it evovled from wild terrain to federally-protected (but no less wild) public land.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration violated federal law by failing to adequately take into account the climate change impact of leasing public land for oil gas drilling in Wyoming, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Because Halliburton is the nation's largest oil services company, and because Mr. Zinke regulates the oil industry on public land, the deal raised questions as to whether it constituted a conflict of interest.
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" The plan is the latest in a series designed to promote more oil and gas drilling on public land in support of what President Trump has called a policy of American "energy dominance.
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Or maybe it's a president who dictated the largest single rollback of public land protection in our history, putting a national monument and its ancient flora at risk from predators with political connections.
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They say the government sets its population targets artificially low to justify mass removals that serve the interests of cattle ranchers and distract from other public land policies that are far more damaging.
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It can help pay for good forest management on public land Forests in the West have become tinderboxes, in part thanks to climate change and in part thanks to years of poor management.
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Officially a Navy installation, it was built by the Works Progress Administration and opened in 1938 as Camp Hi-Catoctin, 180 acres of public land set aside as a destination for government employees.
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Beside the elimination of parking spaces, the program has also rankled some drivers over the decision to turn over public land to private companies — even if it is just a patch of asphalt.
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The ad features a series of children talking about what they want to be when they grow up — ranchers, doctors, teachers — underscoring a message that public land designations can bring economic harm, too.
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"He has an intimate physical relationship with Central Park and an emotional one, too," said Mr. Benepe, who is now a senior vice president at the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit organization.
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Critics say that in addition to adversely impacting fish and wildlife, the expansion would restrict access to public land for hunters, ATV riders and back-country explorers, including at a national wildlife refuge.
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In the middle of this destruction, many Australian commentators in the mainstream and social media peddle a simplistic view: that the fires were caused by excess plant growth and mismanagement of public land.
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There is a lot to conserve on the public land that surrounds these launch sites, which is why cleaning up after launches will continue to be an important issue as the space industry grows.
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Through the years, US presidents of both parties have used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to set aside swaths of public land to protect important historical, cultural, and ecological sites without approval from Congress.
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So far, he has reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, opened the door to more mining on public land, and proposed expanding offshore oil drilling to much of the US coasts.
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Like the Bundys, the Hammonds have long believed that the federal, public land they pay pennies on the dollar to graze should be considered their own, to manage as they please — including setting fires.
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Last week, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) also introduced a bill that would sell over 3 million acres of public lands across 10 states in the Western US, where most public land is concentrated.
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The Department of the Interior oversees millions of acres of public land and national parks across the United States, through agencies like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the National Park Service (NPS).
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But according to Billy J. Williams, the acting U.S. attorney in Oregon, the Hammonds were rightfully convicted after setting fire to about 130 acres of public land in an attempt to cover up poaching.
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Countryside, which regenerates public land as well as builds houses on its own plots, said trading over the summer and into autumn had been stronger than it had expected and ahead of last year.
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To tackle the spread of green iguanas, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is now encouraging residents to kill the animals on their own property, as well as 22 areas of public land.
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The group Public Land Solutions, a pro-federal designation group, said in a recent report that the economic benefits of Bears Ears to the area should outweigh any benefits with mineral or oil extraction.
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An area of 60 million hectares in Brazil's Amazonas state, 203 percent of the state's total area, is classified as vacant public land and lacks formal title deeds, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) said.
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In a major policy announcement last month, the government said it supported off-site construction, promised financial support for prefabs and to make public land available for "modular schemes", as they are known now.
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The Obama administration on Wednesday said the royalty rate on coal mined from public land should increase, one of several conclusions to come from a year-long report on the federal coal leasing program.
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Otter has routinely dealt with public land issues, including a signature good neighbor agreement that allows Idaho to work with the National Forest Service to expand the agency's capacity to work on forest health.
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The Trump administration is planning on ending a policy that requires oil drillers, miners and land developers to pay the government for damages its work can have on wildlife and habitats on public land.
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Cruz's ad looks to tap into conservative angst over public land ownership, which has turned into a major issue for some conservatives in Western states, where the federal government has large holdings of land.
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A broad majority of the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an enormous Christian cross standing on public land, and funded by public money, does not violate the Constitution's separation of church and state.
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Contributing Opinion Writer Even before last month's Supreme Court argument, the smart-money consensus was that those challenging the Latin cross that stands 40 feet tall on public land in Bladensburg, Md., would lose.
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Ivan Kocner had gone to her because the mayor of his small village was trying to sell public land to a political patron and he, along with others from the village, wanted it stopped.
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In July, Mr. Temer supported a bill that came to be known as the "land grabbers" law, creating a mechanism for people who had been occupying public land in the Amazon to acquire titles.
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With few predators and no hunters to cull them, the herds began to rebound, and land managers realized in the 246s that they were quickly outgrowing the patchwork of public land allotted to them.
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We need to embrace the radical, time-tested and profoundly democratic idea of public-land protection that was invented in the United States, tested in Yellowstone and Yosemite, and now proven the world over.
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The winner will oversee the use of New Mexico's nine million acres of public land that have been designated for generating revenue for the state, largely through the leasing to oil and gas companies.
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And state-owned companies in China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are building Trump resorts while other countries are constructing roads and donating public land for new developments — all potential violations of the Constitution.
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Critics charge that the proposal would pull a thicker veil over the department, which makes important decisions about oil drilling, mining, water use and endangered species, and manages millions of acres of public land.
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Observers and Zinke allies say his views are influenced by the large number of his constituents who use the state's public land for hunting and fishing but also work in its natural resources industries.
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Not only does such property often have fewer regulations than public land, but many churches, schools, businesses and community centres also have ample parking, an element of privacy and a built-in support network.
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Not only does such property often have fewer regulations than public land, but many churches, schools, businesses and community centers also have ample parking, an element of privacy and a built-in support network.
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But he left much more than that here in the far corner of northwest Montana and all over the West: an endowment to every American, rich and poor alike, their inheritance of public land.
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In 2900, the Alaska office of BLM approved the final plan for ConocoPhillips' Greater Mooses Tooth Unit 220006 (GMT2202) – significant because it is the first development project approved on public land within the Reserve.
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States, industries take on the feds: First, states and the gas industry filed briefs in federal court against the Interior Department's new rules regulating fracking on public land, saying the move overstepped legal boundaries.
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Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, told the Oregonian that Thursday's verdicts could embolden militia groups across the country and prompt similar armed standoffs over federal control of public land.
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His Administration has gone to extreme lengths to boost the sector, from opening up unprecedented amounts of public land to mining to trying to use emergency powers to bail out money-losing coal plants.
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The offer by lawyers for the billionaire, Vinod Khosla, was the latest salvo in a case that has touched a nerve in California as resentment grows over issues of wealth, privilege and public land use.
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A public land bank has many advantages, but implementation would be tricky as it would need a mediating agency, said T. Haque, chairman of the land policy cell in NITI Aayog, a government think tank.
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During arguments over a mammoth World War I memorial cross on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland, she was skeptical about discarding longstanding precedent on the separation of church and state that several justices have criticized.
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The survey found that 24 percent of respondents oppose giving state governments control over national public lands and 60 percent oppose selling significant public land holdings, such as national forests, to reduce the budget deficit.
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The survey found that 58 percent of respondents oppose giving state governments control over national public lands and 60 percent oppose selling significant public land holdings, such as national forests, to reduce the budget deficit.
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Another involves a 40-foot-high cross in Maryland that has stood as a first-world-war memorial on public land for 90 years; plaintiffs say the cross violates America's separation of church and state.
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Embracing the actors' five-month-long protest, opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha said the attempt to demolish the old theater showed "Rama's greed for money by grabbing public land to get his own cut".
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They approached a fence they said divided private and public land, and cut a space about 80 feet long, a move they said would allow the Puckett family to graze its cattle at the refuge.
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Trump's visit to Utah and the expected reductions to the monuments represent the latest fruition of those efforts to undo Bears Ears and, more generally, scale back federal influence over public land in the West.
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Built on public land and jolted to life with a government grant of ¥9.6bn ($86m), the half-finished veterinary school has been dogged by claims that its political midwife was Shinzo Abe, the prime minister.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - British Columbia will not allow Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd to begin work on public land for its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion until it "meaningfully" consults aboriginal communities, provincial officials said on Thursday.
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From the late 1980s into the 1990s, the destruction of Sri Lanka's mangroves had official sanction, as the government handed out public land to large companies to clear for shrimp farms along the northwest coast.
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To assemble this year's list, SmartAsset collected data for the most populous from sources like the US Census Bureau, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Running in the USA and the Trust for Public Land.
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In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said the decision sentencing the Hammonds to five years in prison was "unjust" and said that the fire had burned only "a small portion" of public land.
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The order also apparently seeks to lift a ban on coal-mining leases and ease the way toward fracking on public land, and ax federal officials' obligation to weigh the "social cost" of carbon emissions.
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What the legislation did is create a buffer around it, extending further into other areas that are not part of the national site at Chaco but still on public land and carrying significant cultural resources.
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Last term, Kagan joined Breyer and the five conservative Justices in allowing a forty-foot-tall concrete cross commemorating soldiers who died in the First World War to remain on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland.
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Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan agreed with Sturgeon that Alaska's Nation River is not public land, and is thus exempt from National Park Service regulations under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
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But somehow in the intervening four decades, the law's statutory requirements have been forgotten or ignored, as public land management has focused mainly on environmental preservation, making mineral exploration and development difficult if not impossible.
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He represents commercial fishermen in a lawsuit challenging the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and a group of public land users in a lawsuit defending President Trump's reduction of Bears Ears National Monument.
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In an op-ed in the Reno Gazette-Journal later that month, Trump called federal land ownership in Nevada "arbitrary and capricious" and said President Obama "encourages faceless, nameless bureaucrats" to manage public land holdings.
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Pendley was appointed to the job in July 2019, and immediately set off a firestorm of criticism for his past statements opposing the "tyranny" of federally owned public land and advocating for selling it off.
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Pendley was appointed to the role in July 2019, and immediately set off a firestorm of criticism for his past statements opposing the "tyranny" of federally owned public land and advocating for selling it off.
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TRUMP CUTS WILDLIFE REFUGE LAW ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM: The Trump administration is abruptly ending a decades-long program that trained national wildlife refuge managers with law enforcement capabilities to police often remote spots of public land.
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Through the collaborative efforts of states and federal agencies, private landowners, public land users, and the Western governors, this strategy prevented the need to add the grouse to the list of threatened and endangered species.
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Activists pushing their allies to hold the line against the GOP are working to kick up grassroots opposition to public land changes, an effort that they say has had at least some success so far.
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He first asked the Interior Department to auction off rights to as much as 200,000 acres in Montana through a process that allows energy companies to identify the public land they would like to develop.
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The former director of the Bureau of Land Management "stood to benefit personally" from a 28503 agreement to sell public land to a Nevada land developer looking to build a sports complex outside Las Vegas.
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Conservatives, industry groups and Westerners have long pushed for changes to the Antiquities Act, saying presidents of both parties have abused the law, handcuffing local communities who could look to create jobs on public land.
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The Land and Water Conservation Fund, a crucial public lands program, had been allowed to expire the previous autumn — potentially eliminating hundreds of millions of dollars typically allocated towards public land projects across the country.
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At the core of any successful public land management is collaboration amongst stakeholders on the ground, rarely has an effort entailed as much collaboration and cooperation as the process to create the sage-grouse plans.
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The Association of Public & Land Grant Institutions (APLU), which represents more than 230 universities across the nation including Louisiana State University, has advocated for CTA to be included in the Higher Education Act reauthorization efforts.
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Conservatives argue the law, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, gives the president too much control over public land preservation, while ranchers, energy firms and others argue they could use the land to grow their businesses.
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Op-Ed Contributor Santa Fe, N.M. — In the remote high desert of northwestern New Mexico lie the threatened ruins of Chaco Canyon, arguably the most significant cultural site on public land in the United States.
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If Mr. Trump's legal challengers win in court, the decision could affirm future presidents' rights to use the Antiquities Act to extend protection to large areas of public land, and cement the monuments' current boundaries.
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The government also tended to allow free use of unclaimed lands by ranchers and others, though there were skirmishes over the years when settlers tried to fence in public land or claimed land in Indian territories.
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If there's some type of executive action that changes the borders or the nature of public monuments, there are quite a number of public land stakeholders that are prepared to take it up in the courts.
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The first is that right now, public land is concentrated primarily in the West, but the entire country pays the management costs for those public lands, which can be substantial, especially for things like fire suppression.
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The most steadfast supporter of the Maryland cross was conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who questioned the American Humanist Association's lawyer, Monica Miller, on the fate of other crosses on public land if she were to win.
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"The NLC was saying we should follow the processes of acquiring public land, which would take years to complete," Ndemo, now an associate professor of business at the University of Nairobi, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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For example, she was joined only by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, age 65 and the fourth liberal, as she dissented to the majority's decision permitting a 40-foot high war memorial cross on public land in Maryland.
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In 323, the U.S. government passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which paid nearly $1 billion at that time to Native Alaskans and transferred about 44 million acres of public land to indigenous-controlled corporations.
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Vast tracts of public land, such as forests, playgrounds and prisons, were given to politically powerful individuals during the 1990s, government reports show, so as to raise campaign finance and buy the loyalty of influential officials.
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"This is the face of our public land agencies and the people on the front lines," said John Freemuth, a Boise State University professor who studies public lands issues and once worked as a park ranger.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Native American tribe in Montana filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging its decision to lift a moratorium on coal leases on public land without first consulting with tribal leaders.
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Two years later, in January 2016, Cliven's son Ammon Bundy led a militia in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, demanding that the government turn over federal public land to state control.
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In 2015, hunting and recreational shooting activities alone generated $823 million to support the conservation and rehabilitation of public land, and provide more than 85033 percent of the annual funding for state fish and game agencies.
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The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit from an advocacy group accusing the city of illegally transferring public land to a private entity would not be dismissed.
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I hadn't planned on leasing these lands when I attended an auction run by the federal Bureau of Land Management, a government agency that manages hundreds of millions of acres of public land across the West.
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It's the legacy of a system in which success was based less on the strength of one's ideas and more on access to vast amounts of government-controlled resources: public land, bank loans, foreign currency, etc.
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And it is being watched closely because it could set the tone for how 640 million acres of public land owned by the federal government, including America's national parks, wildlife refuges and conservation areas, are managed.
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According to an ambitious project of the Trust for Public Land, Minneapolis leads the nation's metropolitan areas in providing the best overall access for the most people to well-equipped and serviced public parks and recreation.
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Mr. Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the oil and agribusiness industries, was confirmed by the Senate last week to head the agency, which oversees the nation's 500 million acres of public land and vast coastal waters.
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And they generally supported the idea of protecting communities from re-zoning laws, such as the one that might have allowed Amazon to claim public land that was previously slated for affordable housing and a school.
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The senators questioned his ability to act impartially as the No. 2 official in charge the bulk of the nation's public land, though Bernhardt promised to follow ethics rules regarding recusals from matters involving former clients.
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The plan would ratchet up the royalties paid by fossil fuel companies that drill and mine on the nation's more than 600 million acres of public land, raising fees from roughly 12 percent to 18 percent.
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The plan would ratchet up the royalties paid by fossil fuel companies that drill and mine on the nation's more than 85033 million acres of public land, raising fees from roughly 12 percent to 18 percent.
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Mr. Singh, who is awaiting trial in the corruption case, had sought help from City Hall in connection to his lease payments to the city, since the barge on which the restaurant sits is public land.
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Unlike artwork made by individual artists, many of the Confederate monuments were supported by city or state governments — sometimes including tax dollars — and placed on public land, suggesting official approval of what the statues stand for.
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The public land exception While there's seemingly almost no political issue today on which our two political parties or their constituents can agree, America's 640+ million acres of federally protected public lands represent a shining exception.
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Any use of the public land for Liberty National would have to be approved by New Jersey's state legislature, which was set to vote on a related piece of legislation on Thursday, according to the Times.
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If passed, the ballot initiative would direct the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to develop a plan to reintroduce the wolves to public land in the western part of the state by the end of 2370.
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On the other hand, you have Patagonia, another outdoor retailer, pulling out of the annual industry show in Utah this year to protest the state's hostility toward the public land that the company's customers depend on.
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Companies that make and sell outdoor gear, such as Patagonia, REI and The North Face, are forcefully criticizing Trump for trying to roll back former President Obama's actions on protecting public land and fighting climate change.
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Respondents were more split on other energy policies, however, including the prospect of reducing the number of new coal mines on public land and on allowing crude oil exports, a policy approved by Congress in December.
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Even so, some Democrats expressed concerns about their positions on climate science, public land ownership under the Trump administration and possible cuts to research funding, meaning there is plenty of potential for dissenting votes on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Australian authorities could increase the supply of social housing through measures such as setting aside public land, according to researchers who found that banks have already made substantial investments in the sector.
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Fees on state-owned land tend to be considerably higher than on federal land, in part because most state governments are legally required to maximize the value of their public land, and the federal government isn't.
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But thanks to an old New York City Parks regulation that prohibits "destruction or abuse of trees, plants, flowers, shrubs, and grass," people are not allowed to pick food off of public land in this city.
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The government refuses to provide clear and detailed explanations of scandals such as the one concerning Moritomo Gakuen, a private school that has ties to Mr Abe and was able to buy public land on the cheap.
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" And Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he joined Alito's opinion in full but wanted to stress that he had "great respect" for Jewish war veterans who argued that the cross on public land sends "a message of exclusion.
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Experts say more than three-quarters of new arrivals end up living in a bastee - owned by private landlords who provide some services - as squatter settlements on public land have disappeared amid demolitions and evictions by authorities.
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Experts say we need to halt leasing public land to fossil fuel companies, completely change the way we design and build cities, bring in strict laws for protecting carbon-sequestering forests and radically reform the agricultural system.
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He's aligned himself with conservationists, environmental activists and outdoorsmen by prioritizing public land use and conservation — a key issue in many Western states and one that has helped him draw distinctions with some of his Republican opponents.
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Many local and state governments announced that they would remove statues and other imagery from public land, or consider doing so, in the aftermath of Saturday's white nationalist rally that killed one person and injured dozens more.
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The court decided that the National Park Service cannot regulate the Nation River in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve where Sturgeon was stopped in 2007 because it is not "public land" owned by the federal government.
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That is almost a six-fold increase from their purchases of just 5 percent of the land sold in public land auctions in the years 20073 and 2014, the data from real estate broker Midland Realty shows.
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"Land grabs, which used to happen from Nairobi, now have been devolved to the counties," NLC commissioner Abdulkadir Khalif told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of a conference to discussion the protection of public land.
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Bundy's conflict with the Bureau of Land Management began in the 1990s but came to a head in April 2014 when the BLM went to move hundreds of Bundy's cattle that had been grazing on public land.
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By putting almost 17 million acres of public land on the auction block for drilling and fracking, Zinke helped spark an offshore drilling ban in Florida and elect a bevy of conservation-minded community members to Congress.
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Among the biggest tracts of public land in America, the western forests have for over a century inspired conflict between ranchers and rangers; loggers and greens; the federal government and some of those who hate it most.
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The Trump approach is a radical rejection of virtually every reform of public land law in the past 100 years, and the decision to abruptly halt the study of mountaintop removal mining is but the latest example.
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"Selling off public land and resources as quickly as possible at fire-sale prices is not good stewardship; it's a shell game where the oil, gas and coal industries win and the American taxpayers lose," they said.
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While oil, natural gas and coal dominate energy production on federal land and offshore, President Obama has prioritized renewable energy development on public land, seeing it as prime space for wind farms, solar arrays and the like.
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The far more densely populated states on the East Coast — say the original 13 colonies plus the District of Columbia — have about 30 percent of the nation's population but only a tiny percentage of its public land.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday the withdrawal of the compensatory mitigation policy for the Endangered Species Act, which directed the agency to set a "net-benefit" goal for natural resources extraction on public land.
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He previously served as the Deputy Solicitor for Land Resources at the U.S. Department of Interior during the Obama administration, where his responsibilities included providing legal advice to the Director of the BLM about public land matters.
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If anger were a volcano, and you let loose all the rage felt by people over the daily assaults on public land by the Trump administration, you'd have an eruption with the fury of Mount St. Helens.
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Forest Service trail worker, seasonal employee The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public land in the US, compared to 84 million acres managed by the National Park Service, including most of our designated wilderness areas.
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One of the best options, he said, is one that's already available in many towns and cities: Trees are turned into mulch, which is distributed on public land or given to those who want to use it.
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By having signage, and getting the community involved, people living in the area can know that a space is public land rather than some empty private property, and rally around it if such a sale is proposed.
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We will give you no tax breaks, no free public land and no environmentally harmful zoning favors, all of which would, in the long run, reduce the quality of life in the city you would call home.
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In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the Senate voted on Wednesday not to consider repealing a climate change regulation on the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
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He said he hoped Trump would stand with ranchers in their disputes with the federal government over fees charged for cattle grazing on public land – a call to arms for many in the patriot and militia movement.
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The ads tell viewers about Trump's executive order shrinking the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and highlights potential public land policy changes in the three states it is set to air in.
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Democrats tore into the chief of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at a hearing Tuesday, questioning the merits of a Department of Interior plan to decentralize the public land agency and send its top officials west.
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"Selling off public land and resources as quickly as possible at fire-sale prices is not good stewardship; it's a shell game where the oil, gas and coal industries win and the American taxpayers lose," the said.
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The ads tell viewers about Trump's executive order shrinking the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and highlights potential public land policy changes in the three states it is set to air in.
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Plans that meet minimum thresholds for affordable housing, set at 35 percent of homes built on private land or 50 percent on public land, will be given a fast-track route to secure planning permission, said Khan.
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But the amendments would also allow landowners to register territory they had been informally occupying, she said - an incentive for rural businessmen to clear forests or occupy public land to gain formal ownership under the titling program.
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Mr. Obama saw the effort to block coal mining on public land as a key step in tackling climate change, while Mr. Trump saw the lifting of that ban as a crucial step to help coal miners.
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As many as 20 Democratic lawmakers have signed the "Anything but Trump Act" in an effort to remove his association with the public land and there's a "Rename the Donald J. Trump State Park" petition on Change.
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PETA says almost 40 percent of hunters in the US slaughter and maim millions of animals on public land every year, and meanwhile PETA mentions yearly estimates of illegal animal killing by poachers also gauged in the millions.
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Today, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell proposed rules aimed at curbing methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations, which would limit gas flaring and force companies to capture leaking methane, raising the cost of fracking on public land.
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According to The Tico Times Gibson is being accused of illegally limiting access to a public beach and public land that surround his property, Playa Barrigona – however, a representative of the property has said there's been no wrongdoing.
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I recognize that some local officials, public land users and individuals still have issues with a few isolated parts of the rule, and I'm confident that these details could be resolved quickly by your team through administrative action.
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Ross Tuesday lamented that Canadian softwood is grown on public land, which puts Canadian loggers at an advantage compared to U.S. loggers, who have to hit the open market to negotiate with landowners to cut down their trees.
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You are the president of the United States who tried to ban fracking on public land because it emits greenhouse gases but then takes credit for cutting "dependence on foreign oil by more than half" thanks to fracking.
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INTERIOR CALLS FOR HIGHER COAL FEES: Obama administration officials are calling for higher royalty rates on coal mined from public land, one of several conclusions to come from a year-long report on the federal coal leasing program.
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The Obama administration enacted a number of measures making it harder to drill on public land, including creating over 85033 national monuments and expanding the boundaries of a number of others — a designation that forbids fossil fuel extraction.
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At the end of the day, public land ranchers are able to turn an otherwise unusable natural resource into healthy, free-range, high-quality protein while reducing the land management burden and budget demands of our federal government.
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Adrian Benepe, a senior vice president for the Trust for Public Land who was the city's parks commissioner from 2002 to 2012, pointed out that open spaces did not necessarily have to be open to benefit the community.
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"The flip side that I would just emphasize, is that the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Interior, we are really making an effort to look at future reform," Hummel said of fracking on public land.
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But contrary to Mr. Sfard, Mr. Baker argued that absentee land "is placed in the hands of the government to use and enjoy the same way as public land," as long as it remains registered as absentee property.
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WASHINGTON — In a surprising victory for President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the Senate voted on Wednesday to uphold an Obama-era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
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The new administration of Donald J. Trump will be heavy with people who see public land, and Indian Country, as just one thing — a place to drill for oil, move it along, or get out of the way.
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Micheni, the farmer in Kibingo village, said his brothers are insisting the quarry site on his rocky patch of land counts as public land and therefore they should have a cut of any money he makes from it.
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Micheni, the farmer in Kibingo village, said his brothers are insisting the quarry site on his rocky patch of land counts as public land and therefore they should have a cut of any money he makes from it.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court ruled in favor of an Alaska man who was barred by the National Park Service from using his hovercraft to hunt moose on a section of a river that runs through public land.
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With tax cuts for the uber-wealthy, the lease of public land to oil and gas companies, and the imprisonment of asylum seekers irrespective of age, Trump is playing out his Atlantic City strategy on a national level.
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Check out more videos from VICE: The Outdoor Industry Association has done economic studies on a national and state level, and there's hundreds of billions of dollars of economic activity because of recreation that takes place on public land.
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Among the expansion's obstacles, a legal challenge to be heard in October could overturn Trans Mountain approval, and British Columbia last month barred any Trans Mountain work on public land until Kinder Morgan further consults the aboriginal groups affected.
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Zinke, a Republican congressman from Montana, was grilled by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources about climate change, sexual assault in the National Parks Service, fossil fuel exploration on public land, and the sovereignty of tribal nations.
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Zinke, an avid hunter and angler, emerged as a surprise pick to head the department in part because he has embraced federal stewardship of public land, diverging from the Republican Party's official position to sell off acreage to states.
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Located on 4,000 acres of public land in the Mojave Desert, the sprawling concentrated solar thermal plant is equipped with 173,500 heliostats—each with two mirrors—that focus sunlight on boilers located on top of three 459-foot towers.
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According to federal authorities, Steven Hammond set fire to land managed by the BLM in 23 that burned 139 acres of public land in order to cover up an illegal dear hunt, according to a the Department of Justice.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A former Thai police officer who was fired for gross misconduct as one of the new king's most senior aides was taken to a police station on Thursday to face a charge of building on public land.
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They say the U.S. action is in response to what it views as unfair subsidies for the Canadian lumber industry in British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta and Quebec, where the government allows private firms to source trees from public land.
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The bankruptcy trustee for Rincon Island Limited Partnership on Wednesday surrendered to California its rights to state leases to a manmade island on public land, handing a victory to officials who sought to shut down the energy producer's wells.
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Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.
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Among the concerns of Public Lands Hate You is the ecological damage from the Instagram-driven mass visitation of a tiny parcel of public land called the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, in the grassland of the Mojave Desert.
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Based on his past record, he could play a key role this term in dispute over a World War I Memorial cross on public land in Maryland, challenged as a breach of the constitutional separation of church and state.
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While the park is public land and can't be restricted to residents of certain neighborhoods, Leonard removed all mentions of the park's existence from the official website of Chevy Chase village to discourage DC-based dog owners from coming.
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The bureau has struggled to limit wild horse populations since Congress passed a law in 1971 protecting the wild horses and burros that roam patches of public land in 10 Western states, and whose numbers increase naturally every year.
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A federal judge has blocked a plan to open one million acres of public land in Central California to oil and gas drilling, ruling that regulators should have considered in more detail the potential environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing.
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The surrounding landscape was kept pristine through strict regulation and a policy of universal free access: new developments were built at least 300 feet from the shoreline and the space in between was declared public land accessible to all.
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Elmedo and hundreds others were declared encroachers on public land, and given a choice: move to a resettlement area miles away, or build and own their homes, nearby, under a state-backed program with the charity Habitat for Humanity.
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But last month, the Finance Ministry said an internal investigation found that bureaucrats had tampered with official documents related to the sale of public land to an ultraconservative education group, known as Moritomo Gakuen, at a steeply discounted price.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyan authorities have arrested the chairman of the agency that manages public land and the boss of the state railway on suspicion of corruption over land allocation for the new $3 billion flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway.
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The National Park Service, which controls much of the public land in Washington, from sidewalks to the National Mall, has already seen permit requests from groups hoping to host events both for and against Mr. Trump skyrocket to 23.
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So when the Trump administration starts taking away people's health care, trashing public schools with a church-lady billionaire as education secretary, or colluding with a Congress that wants to offload public land, Montana can offer a resistance playbook.
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"Such 'categorical exclusions' prevent public involvement in national forest management, eliminate a thorough review of the effects of government actions, and erode public confidence in public land management," a green coalition wrote to lead Senate negotiators last month. Sen.
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Contributing Opinion Writer The Supreme Court's decision in last term's big religion case, on the constitutionality of a Latin cross that stands 40 feet tall on public land in Bladensburg, Md., left both sides in the religion wars unsatisfied.
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But it's an intriguing starting point for a discussion on how to reshape the fossil fuel industry, reduce public land emissions, and create an off-ramp for mining and drilling workers who may lose their jobs in the process.
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While America is blessed with a rich and vast public land heritage, valued and enjoyed by many, people from culturally diverse backgrounds have not been equitably represented or supported in their pursuit of the benefits of America's natural legacy.
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Ironically, in Italy she was able to use common land in the northern mountains to build her new enterprise, taking advantage of permits that give farmers access to public land to prevent local territory from being reclaimed by wild nature.
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Appropriately, he describes himself as a "nuclear archeologist," conducting interviews, sourcing documents from public archives, drawing measurements from photos, and even conducting test site digs on public land—all in service of creating an exact replica of the atom bomb.
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The family rents their room for $32 a month and the landlord takes care of some services, including electricity and water - important in a city where slum-dwellers on public land often have to pay "mastaans", powerful local figures, for utilities.
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The so-called Peace Cross, a concrete memorial to 49 men from Maryland's Prince George's County killed in World War One shaped like a Christian cross, is situated on public land at a busy road intersection in Bladensburg just outside Washington.
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During the spring and summer of 4.53, he served as a law enforcement ranger at Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California, doing search and rescue operations in the backcountry and making sure no one was growing weed on public land.
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The charges include releasing a substance in the environment that caused an adverse effect, failing to report the release of a substance as soon as possible, failing to take all reasonable measures to remediate and causing a disturbance to public land.
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"The American public deserves to have the basic confidence that their Interior Secretary is looking out for their interests — protecting public land, species, the air and the water — and not the interests of former industry clients," Udall said in a statement.
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Organize a rally on public lands near your home to demonstrate your dedication to federal land conservation, and consider getting involved with your local chapter of the Sierra Club or another conservation-focused alliance to build moment around public land protection.
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Related: People in the Western US Really Do Want Federal Regulation of Land The occupation, led by Idaho rancher Ammon, also was directed as a protest against federal control over millions of acres public land in the western United States.
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Now the so-called keep it in the ground movement has a new strategy to slow Trumps pro-oil agenda: Burying the administration in formal written protests and lawsuits challenging nearly every oil and gas lease it plans on public land.
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Federal agents would eventually back down in the Nevada standoff and, hoping to duplicate what many saw as a victory, Ammon Bundy and several supporters headed to Oregon in 2016 to lead a standoff protesting the federal control of public land.
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President Trump on Monday slashed a pair of national monuments in Utah, marking the largest reduction of public land protections in US history, and prompting protests and threats of lawsuits from conservation groups as well as praise from Western conservatives.
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The commission was announced in September amid a national debate over the presence of Confederate symbols on public land, which flared after white supremacists and neo-Nazis gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to stop the removal of a Robert E. Lee monument.
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It has snapped up cheap properties in Chile and Argentina, next to larger areas of disused public land, with the aim of donating them to the state on condition that adjacent private and public plots are united into single national parks.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.
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Behind Ammon Bundy and the armed band now occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon lies a long history of friction between the federal government, which subsidizes the private use of public land, and private users who oppose federal control.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a First Amendment challenge to Wyoming laws which impose harsher penalties on those who cross private property to collect water and soil samples, take photographs or collect other environmental data on adjacent public land.
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The conversation between Ryan Bundy and federal Bureau of Land Management agents occurred on March 27, 2014, ahead of a confrontation that galvanized right-wing militia groups challenging federal authority over vast tracts of public land in the American West.
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The past week, however, has brought a particularly interesting juxtaposition of news: fresh evidence of the anti-environmental extremism of William Perry Pendley, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) current acting director, and new opinion polling on public land and drilling.
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Veterans of public land fights in the 1970s see signs of a new Sagebrush -Rebellion, the name given to an at-times violent movement aimed at prying land away from the federal government and giving it to states and private owners.
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