Interior Department border deployments are mired in secrecy
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Susan Sargent | May 31, 2019
From: High Country News “On May 15, it was reported by The Hill that 47 Interior Department officers were currently assigned to the border — more than twice the previous number. This leaves public-lands advocates worried about the effects of their absence on the lands these ...
No Word From Feds on Tampa Sewage Spat
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Susan Sargent | May 28, 2019
From: Tampa Bay Times “Jerry Phillips, the attorney who prepared the complaint for the environmental group, said the group hasn’t given up, but it hasn’t heard a peep from the federal government. That’s not unusual since President Donald Trump took office, Phillips said. ...
A Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands
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Susan Sargent | May 23, 2019
From: The Revelator “BLM’s own records reveal that much of the sagebrush West is in severely degraded condition due to excessive commercial livestock grazing,” Kirsten Stade, advocacy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a press release when the ...
Letter to the Editor: A Response to Chris Stewart’s and Mike Lee’s Letter on Wild Horses
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Susan Sargent |
From: St. George News “As a Utah constituent located in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, I will not – nor will I ever – consider Chris Stewart the “wild horse guy.” I would, however, consider him so deep in the pocket of the USDA, he wouldn’t even be able to tell the ...
Forest Service Chief: Agency Auditing Alaska Region Timber Program
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Susan Sargent |
From: KFSK “The chief of the U.S. Forest Service has responded to the Petersburg borough that the federal agency is conducting an audit of the timber program on national forest land in the Alaska Region. Vicki Christiansen’s May 8th letter to borough mayor Mark Jensen apologizes ...
The Administration Tried to Muzzle this Scientist on Climate Change. But He Won’t Go Away
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Susan Sargent |
From: Washington Post “Last week, Luber was in Washington to accept one of six Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards. The prizes were established in 1979 by Christie Hefner and named for her father, who founded Playboy magazine. (I was a member of the 2019 judging panel.) Luber, who ...
