CSKT Renews Proposal for Ownership of Bison Range
From: Flathead Beacon “The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have renewed a proposal to return management of the 18,800-acre National Bison Range to tribal management under a federal trust ownership agreement, an historic change of course that tribal leaders believe is in the best ...
Tribes Continue Push for Trust Ownership of Bison Range
From: The Missoulian “A Wednesday press release announced that the tribes had notified Montana’s congressional delegation and the U.S. Department of the Interior that they would like to revisit a 2016 proposal to place the Bison Range in trust status. The tribes have long sought a ...
Park’s Cell Tower Meeting is Tonight
From: Jackson Hole News & Guide “The new cell towers would go in at Flagg Ranch, Colter Bay, Jackson Lake Lodge, Signal Mountain, North Jenny Lake, South Jenny Lake, Beaver Creek, Moose and Kelly. Detractors of lining Teton park with cell towers exist, especially the group Public ...
Grand Teton National Park Pursuing Disputed Cell-Towers
From: Post Register “Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming seeks thoughts from the public on plans for a new network of cell towers amid questions about how the National Park Service balances public safety with the experience of wilderness. The park currently has two cell towers ...
Interior Doesn’t Have Enough Ethics Staffers, Audit Says
From: Bloomberg “The GAO report also found that the federal government doesn’t keep a single source of comprehensive, timely, and publicly available data on political appointees. The GAO report is “consistent with the administration’s disrespect for good management norms,” said ...
Suppressed Documents Raise New Questions About Arctic Refuge Development, David Bernhardt
by Alaska Native News | March 20, 2019
“Since last summer the Trump administration made clear it had no intention to gather any new data about the Arctic Refuge that could inform its decisions on leasing, despite the release of a USGS report noting several major science gaps. Yesterday’s news of additional Fish and Wildlife ...
Wyoming News Update
From: Sheridan Media “A national park in Wyoming is moving ahead with plans for a network of cell towers amid questions about how the National Park Service balances public safety with the experience of wilderness. Grand Teton National Park is taking public comment on plans for nine cell ...
Chemical Board Settles with Managing Director After Three-Year Paid Leave
From: Government Executive “Just a day before a scheduled three-day civil service court hearing, the Chemical Safety Board on Wednesday settled its dispute with fired managing director Daniel Horowitz, who had spent three years on paid administrative leave after contesting his dismissal ...
Arctic-Drilling Plan Draws Fire From 16 Attorneys General
From: Courthouse News “Warning of far-reaching environmental impacts, 16 attorneys general accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of relying on a flawed study to justify the start of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Plans to allow resource mining on the state’s ...
State Attorneys General Join the Fight to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
From: Earther / Gizmodo “Opponents have been keeping a watchful eye on the Trump Administration’s efforts to open up ANWR ever since Congress snuck a provision allowing such activity into a tax reform bill in 2017. Earlier this week, watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental ...
Obama holdovers settle years-long personnel case a day before it was supposed to go to a hearing
From: Daily Caller “The chaos that rocked the agency under Moure-Eraso’s has continued since his departure. Morale at the agency is at the lowest levels of any federal agency and its own employees alleged that the work environment is “toxic,” according to comments taken anonymously ...
Park plans big wire up
From: Jackson Hole News & Guide “Detractors of lining Teton park with cell towers exist, especially the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which sued last spring over alleged violations of the Freedom of Information Act relating to a 2017 request for a trove of ...
Grand Teton National Park pursuing disputed cell-tower build
From: San Francisco Chronicle “”Part of the point of wilderness is the ability to be disconnected and feel alone, but if somebody on the same trail can order a pizza, or sell stock, or chase Pokemon, that takes away from the visitor experience,” said Jeff Ruch with the group ...
Bury the Science, Then Claim It Doesn’t Exist: Interior Department Undermines Arctic Drilling Review
From: Union of Concerned Scientists “According to documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and posted online this week, the Interior Department failed to consider more than a dozen internal memos from staff scientists raising scientific and environmental ...
Environmental group says Interior hid gaps in ANWR science
From: KTOO Public Media “An environmental group has published 18 memos by government scientists that outline gaps in knowledge about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The group claims the information should have been included in the Bureau of Land Management’s report on possible ...
Judicial Watch: The nation’s FOIA champion
From: Washington Times “In second place was the American Civil Liberties Union with 130 requests, followed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (94 requests), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (88) and Electronic Privacy Information Center (74) to round ...
Interior Department Accused of Hiding Key Info on Impacts of Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
From: Gizmodo “There’s still a lot scientists don’t know about how the Trump Administration’s plan to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska would impact its delicate ecosystems. That much is clear from newly-released documents the Fish and ...
Grand Teton National Park Seeking Comment On Telecommunications Plan
From: National Parks Traveler “The purpose of the assessment is to consider a right-of-way permit request for updating and expanding telecommunication capabilities in developed areas of Grand Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, and connecting to Yellowstone ...
Federal Obama Holdovers Are Entering a Court ‘Slugfest’ For Allegedly Firing Someone Illegally
From: The Daily Caller “Members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will appear at a hearing Thursday to argue over the handling of former CSB managing director Daniel Horowitz’s termination from the agency. The hearing will be a “political slugfest” between political ...
Interior Hid Scientists’ Criticism of ANWR Drilling: Report
From: E&E News “Newly leaked Interior Department documents raise questions about the environmental review of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. The documents show that federal scientists drafted 18 memos detailing the environmental “ ...
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