A Colorado wildlife refuge will allow hunting and fishing for the first time
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PEER | September 12, 2019
BOISE, Idaho — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, including one in Colorado, in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states and could harm wildlife. The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and ...
Wildlife, not visitors, take precedence at National Bison Range
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PEER | September 11, 2019
Managers of the National Bison Range will keep wildlife as a priority, but visitors will get a few more amenities under a final management plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated its intent to focus on wildlife for at least the next 15 years in its final draft of the National ...
Trump administration expands hunting and fishing in wildlife refuges
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President Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, in a move that critics say could harm wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said hunters and anglers can shoot and cast their rods on 2,200 square miles of ...
A more peaceful National Park experience could be coming soon
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PEER | September 10, 2019
The action is nearly two decades in the making. Although Congress passed the National Park Air Tour Management Act in 2000, tasking both agencies with developing management strategies to limit commercial air-tour operators and create incentives for quiet aircraft, nothing has come to ...
‘Forever Chemicals’ Now Found in State Schools
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PEER | September 9, 2019
“STOW — The water fountains have been turned off, wrapped in plastic, or fitted with a device to prevent students from using them. Much of the food preparation has moved off campus, and a water jug sits in the kitchen sink, replacing the faucet. The bathrooms are covered with signs ...
Republicans seek to weaken environmental appeals board
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PEER | September 8, 2019
Republicans are trying to weaken a federal board that helps minority and low-income communities challenge how much pollution can be released in their neighborhoods by power plants and factories. The Environmental Appeals Board would be stripped of its ability to hear appeals of EPA-issued ...