Press Release from The Center for Biological Diversity “Dinky Zinke is a Dodo Dud!” TUCSON, Ariz.— Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is the winner of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2017 Rubber Dodo award. The statue is awarded each year to the person or group who has most aggressively […]
by William E. Simpson as published on HorseTalk “…a report by Wild Horse Freedom Federation suggested that figures regarding the number of wild horses removed from the range and now boarded in private pastures did not appear to add up.” What will we do when the wild horses are no […]
by Greg Zimmerman as published on Westwise The secretary proposes draconian cuts to the Land & Water Conservation Fund Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has turned his back on Montana, a state he represented in Congress until last year. The latest example is his proposed 2019 Interior Department budget, […]
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz and Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., “sent Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke a letter on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, accusing Zinke of withholding key information from lawmakers while launching a massive overhaul of his department. The letter demanded that Zinke freeze the reorganization until he provides […]
Brian Steed, Bureau of Land Management’s Acting Director “Federal agencies are not supposed to be run like a temp service.” – PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) For Immediate Release: Feb 12, 2018 Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337 TEMPORARY INTERIOR DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS […]
Written by Joseph Witham as published on The St George News
“…revising wild horse and burro-appropriate management levels or removing horses and burros from winter range or migration corridors if they degrade habitat…”
Opinion by Timothy Egan as published on The New York Times The emperor of the outdoors rode into town on a horse named Tonto, and soon demanded that his own special flag fly outside his headquarters whenever he was in Washington. He believes fracking is proof that “God […]
In an article in Outside Magazine, reporter Elliott Woods noticed that Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, had rigged his fly fishing reel backwards. This was also discussed on Outside Magazine’s twitter page. The photo on the left below shows how a fly fishing […]
(BLM photo by John Ciccarelli) Source: hcn.org “The Interior secretary is running a de facto privatization scheme.” The big public land sell-out Even without wholesale land transfers, public lands are already being conveyed to industry. by Jonathan Thompson Next month, hundreds of corporate representatives will sit down at […]
by Jesse Prentice-Dunn as published on WestWise Interior Secretary set to ignore overwhelming public feedback in scrapping landmark sage-grouse conservation plans In less than one year on the job, Interior Secretary Zinke has taken a wrecking ball to America’s public lands legacy. From the unprecedented step of dramatically […]
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