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No one should be surprised at this administration's mendacious tactics for erasing rules against the overgrazing of the American West
Contact: Santa Fe New Mexican
The original draft of the environmental analysis warned that the new rules would have a "significant adverse impact" on wildlife, but that phrase was removed. The bureau now concludes that the grazing regulations are "beneficial to animals."
Contact: Julie Cart LA Times
They've basically stacked the deck in favor of ranchers - new rules limit public comment on grazing permit decisions and delay action for up to eight years when range managers suspect grazing is harming the land
Contact: Leslie Linthicum Albuquerque Journal
On June 17, 2005, the Bush administration released their version of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations. There are some amazing omissions
Contact: WildEarth Guardians
New regulations allow the fox to guard the henhouse, and the public is left without recourse as soils, water, vegetation and imperiled species suffer from the economic exploitation of our public lands
Contact: WildEarth Guardians
This analysis is based on the final rule and Federal Register notice supplementary text posted on the Forest Service website this afternoon. The rule will go into effect as soon as it is published in the Federal Register.
WildEarth Guardians and the New Mexico Wildlife Federation sued the Bush administration, asking the federal court to protect each citizen's right to appeal Forest Service management decisions.
This is part of a larger strategy by the Bush administration to systematically stymie public participation
Despite endorsement of some forest thinning projects on the Carson National Forest, WildEarth Guardians and Carson Forest Watch filed a lawsuit against the US Forest Service today to stop the Aqua Caballos Timber Sale, north of El Rito.
Timber sale will result in logging rare mature ponderosa pine trees, impacting sensitive species' habitat and watershed of the Rio Vallecitos