public lands bill

• Springdale Rejects Public-Lands Bill

ST. GEORGE -- Copies of a resolution opposing the Washington County Growth and Conservation Act of 2006 are in the mail today, earmarked for various mayors and other elected officials throughout the county. The Springdale Town Council passed the resolution last week. Our concerns with the bill may be very different than other cities, but we think some of them may be the same," said Springdale Mayor Pat Cluff, who took office six months ago after serving on the Town Council for four years. "We feel like our questions about the bill haven't been answered to our satisfaction, and we have serious concerns.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 01, 2006

• Coalition Hails Wilderness Protections in White Pine County (Nv) Public Lands Bill, Expresses Concern for Areas Left Unprotected

RENO, Nev., Aug. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Nevada Wilderness Coalition today praised the wilderness designation in the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act of 2006, a bipartisan omnibus public lands bill introduced late yesterday by Sens. Ensign and Reid, but expressed concern that several critical areas remain unprotected. The bill would designate approximately 545,000 acres of wilderness, including places such as the Schell Creek Range and Mt. Grafton in the eastern part of the state. The legislation also contains provisions that will authorize the sales of public lands, mandate a study for an off-road vehicle trail, and convey land to the state of Nevada to expand a wildlife management area. The wilderness component of the bill protects some of Nevada's o...

• U.S. Newswire
• August 02, 2006

• Recreation Group Raps Public Lands Bill

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Bill Noack, +1-202-589-2756, for Americans for Responsible Recreational Access

• U.S. Newswire
• October 18, 2007

• Rep. Moves Forward

Legislation protecting an additional 18,000 acres in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests moved a step closer to passage today. Rep. David Dreier, R-Claremont, the author of the "Angeles and San Bernardino National Forest Protection Act" testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands in Washington on behalf of the bill.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• October 26, 2011

• Baucus Bill Would Fund Rural Schools Program Without Selling Public Lands

WASHINGTON, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D- Mont.) is introducing legislation today that will fund the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act without selling public lands. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is cosponsoring the measure. The bill will raise $2.6 billion over the next ten years for the rural schools program, commonly known as the county payments law, by closing a tax loophole that allows some government contractors to avoid their tax obligations. In 2005, Wyden, along with Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Baucus, introduced a bill to reauthorize the county payments law for another seven years. The original law is due to expire at the end of this year.

• U.S. Newswire
• March 30, 2006

• Beehive State May Get New Wilderness-and More

Now, the state may see its first new wilderness designations since 1984 -- but they'll come tied to public-lands development. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, says he is drafting an "omnibus" public-lands bill based on land-use discussions in Washington County, in the state's southwestern corner. That bill, modeled on two successful wilderness-and-economic-development bills in Nevada, will likely propose several new wilderness areas in and around Zion National Park.

• High Country News
• August 04, 2009

• Coalition Reacts to Senate Hearing On White Pine County Public Lands Bill; Conservationists Hail Wilderness Protections, Urge Passage This Year

To: State Desk Contact: Shaaron Netherton of Friends of Nevada Wilderness, 775- 750-6119; John Wallin of Nevada Wilderness Project, 775-250-1635

• U.S. Newswire
• November 16, 2006

• Committee Examines Wisdom of Unregulated Food and Drink ; the House Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee Will Continue to Take Testimony and Vote On House Bill 54, Wyoming Food Freedom Act, at 7 A.M. Thursday.

The bill proposes to exempt all food from licensing or inspection that's sold directly from the producer or processor to the end consumer. By Bill McCarthy

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• February 17, 2010

• Roadless Wars

He said that his aggressive but inclusive effort to write Idaho's state-specific roadless rule, including input from each affected county, from mining and timber interests as well as conservation groups and the public, "virtually resolved" 40 years of disputes over roadless areas and that his view from Washington, D.C, does not change that. The question is how good is the information, and the answer is it varies from state to state," [Mark Rey] said. "It's not just better technical detail; it's important if you're going to defend something as roadless that it doesn't have roads in it. The Wilderness Society filed its lawsuit the day after [Jim Risch] voted for the Omnibus Public Lands Bill, a package that includes 2 million acres of new wilderness in nine states that Risch 's predeces...

• Boise Weekly
• September 02, 2009

• Guest Column: Lamborn's Pioneers Act Big On Hype, Small On Return Value

Rep. Doug Lamborn's patriotically named PIONEERS Act has more in common with the West's history of robber barons than with families in covered wagons. If passed, Rep. Lamborn's bill would set aside 2 million acres of public lands for oil shale speculation. As a jobs, energy, and revenue plan, the legislation fails on all counts.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• December 10, 2011