by Web Editor | Aug 17, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Trump Administration announced a new policy to fight wildfires, doubling down on its assertion that the best response is better forest management rather than focusing on climate change. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Thursday that the U.S. Forest...
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...