by Web Editor | Sep 22, 2017 | News, News/PR
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of land revered for natural beauty and historical significance to mining, logging and other...
by Web Editor | Sep 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Interior Department is heating up its war on costly and deadly wildfires in the West, junking policies of leaving forests alone and letting piles of dead wood lay to fuel more fires. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said letting nature take its course is costing too...
by Web Editor | Sep 28, 2015 | News, News/PR
The amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. this year has surpassed 9 million acres, according to data released Thursday by the National Interagency Fire Center. This is only the fourth time on record the country has reached the 9 million-acre mark, center...
by Web Editor | Jun 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
Despite a wet spring over much of the nation, the Obama administration warned Tuesday of potentially catastrophic wildfires this summer, especially in the Southwest and Northwest. “We’ve been very fortunate here in the central part of the country to have...