04-13-2014, 12:43 PM
The BLM is inconsistent and aimless me thinks . . . ymmv
http://wilderness.org/blog/while-yosemit...-companies
While Yosemite was closed, it was open season for timber companies
While public lands were closed to visitors for the 16-day government shutdown, Congress was trying to open them to logging and drilling.
Story update: Since we first published this story in October, Congress has pulled Yosemite National Park from a logging bill that would have opened vast swaths of forest to logging companies. The bad news is that lands in nearby Stanislaus National Forest are now being targeted. Get the full update on the bad logging bill here.
Oct. 24 - National Parks were closed for 16 days due to the government shutdown, but while visitors are locked out, Congress was busy trying to open Yosemite to logging - and other special public lands were being proposed for sale to local states for energy and mineral exploration.
Despite the shutdown, congressional committees held hearings. One on Oct 3rd drew attention to opening public lands, but not for visitors.
Here are the bad bills that Congress is still considering:
Allowing logging in Yosemite! The Yosemite Rim Fire Emergency Salvage Act (H.R. 3188) would override bedrock laws and the courts to allow logging in Yosemite and other public lands, including wilderness areas.
Selling 3.3 million acres of public lands. The House Natural Resources Committee is considering a bill that would not only open 3.3 million acres of public lands for sale, but would mandate them to be auctioned off. The Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2013 (H.R. 2657) proposes to sell lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming to reduce the federal deficit. This is the result of a persistent threat from state governments
Giving away our lands for oil, gas and mineral rights. The Small Lands Tracts Conveyance Act (H.R. 1633) would giveaway vast swaths of our public lands, including Forest Service, wilderness and BLM lands, to state, county and local governments for oil, gas and mineral rights and sales.
Help us continue to the fight against outrageous threats like these.
The irony is that recent park closures revealed just how important these places are economically.
For example, Utah was losing $4.4 million every day, prompting the state to pay almost $1 million out of their tight budget to reopen federal lands for the last six days of the shutdown. Utah is the state represented by Rep. Jason Chaffetz who proposed The Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act bill.
While Congress debated reopening your beloved national parks, they simultaneously considered selling off those same special places. America’s wild lands should remain always open for the American people to enjoy them, and closed to those interested in logging, mining and drilling them.
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/04/blm-...eases.html
BLM launches EIS on existing White River National Forest leases
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 2
04/02/2014
By Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
The US Bureau of Land Management initiated an environmental impact statement on 65 existing oil and gas leases in Colorado’s White River National Forest. The move came after the US Department of the Interior’s Board of Land Appeals identified National Environmental Policy Act deficiencies in the leases.
BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office announced in an Apr. 2 Federal Register notice that it is beginning a 30-day public comment scoping period which will include open house meetings Apr. 15 in Glenwood Springs, Apr. 16 in Carbondale, and Apr. 17 in Aspen. Written comments must be submitted by May 6.
“Scoping comments that are specific to this area and these existing leases will be the most effective as we draft the alternatives we will analyze in the EIS,” said Steve Bennett, the field office’s manager. “Public involvement is a critical piece of this analysis and we will consider a wide range of alternatives, which will be made available for public review and comment when drafted.”
BLM expects to release a draft of the EIS and alternatives for public review in early 2015, he indicated. As a result of this EIS, the agency said it could cancel the existing leases, modify their terms and conditions, or keep the existing terms and conditions in place.
It also extended lease suspensions for 25 tracts in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale through Apr. 1, 2016, because they will be included in the EIS. SG Interests holds 18 of the leases and Ursa Resources Group holds seven. Both independent producers are based in Houston.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=BLM+deals+with+oil+companies+and+Logging+companies&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The BLM has been in partnership with, Crown Zellerbach, Weyerhaeuser, Georgia Pacific, et al, including the small time gypo loggers, raping our forests,
logging right up to privately owned lands, destroying ancient Salmon runs, polluting rivers and streams while they use 2-4D to kill and destroy native deciduous tress.
They are one of the biggest cancers in gubbernment and hell bent in collusion with big business.
NO runs
No drips
No errors, errors, errors
http://wilderness.org/blog/while-yosemit...-companies
While Yosemite was closed, it was open season for timber companies
While public lands were closed to visitors for the 16-day government shutdown, Congress was trying to open them to logging and drilling.
Story update: Since we first published this story in October, Congress has pulled Yosemite National Park from a logging bill that would have opened vast swaths of forest to logging companies. The bad news is that lands in nearby Stanislaus National Forest are now being targeted. Get the full update on the bad logging bill here.
Oct. 24 - National Parks were closed for 16 days due to the government shutdown, but while visitors are locked out, Congress was busy trying to open Yosemite to logging - and other special public lands were being proposed for sale to local states for energy and mineral exploration.
Despite the shutdown, congressional committees held hearings. One on Oct 3rd drew attention to opening public lands, but not for visitors.
Here are the bad bills that Congress is still considering:
Allowing logging in Yosemite! The Yosemite Rim Fire Emergency Salvage Act (H.R. 3188) would override bedrock laws and the courts to allow logging in Yosemite and other public lands, including wilderness areas.
Selling 3.3 million acres of public lands. The House Natural Resources Committee is considering a bill that would not only open 3.3 million acres of public lands for sale, but would mandate them to be auctioned off. The Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2013 (H.R. 2657) proposes to sell lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming to reduce the federal deficit. This is the result of a persistent threat from state governments
Giving away our lands for oil, gas and mineral rights. The Small Lands Tracts Conveyance Act (H.R. 1633) would giveaway vast swaths of our public lands, including Forest Service, wilderness and BLM lands, to state, county and local governments for oil, gas and mineral rights and sales.
Help us continue to the fight against outrageous threats like these.
The irony is that recent park closures revealed just how important these places are economically.
For example, Utah was losing $4.4 million every day, prompting the state to pay almost $1 million out of their tight budget to reopen federal lands for the last six days of the shutdown. Utah is the state represented by Rep. Jason Chaffetz who proposed The Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act bill.
While Congress debated reopening your beloved national parks, they simultaneously considered selling off those same special places. America’s wild lands should remain always open for the American people to enjoy them, and closed to those interested in logging, mining and drilling them.
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/04/blm-...eases.html
BLM launches EIS on existing White River National Forest leases
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 2
04/02/2014
By Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
The US Bureau of Land Management initiated an environmental impact statement on 65 existing oil and gas leases in Colorado’s White River National Forest. The move came after the US Department of the Interior’s Board of Land Appeals identified National Environmental Policy Act deficiencies in the leases.
BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office announced in an Apr. 2 Federal Register notice that it is beginning a 30-day public comment scoping period which will include open house meetings Apr. 15 in Glenwood Springs, Apr. 16 in Carbondale, and Apr. 17 in Aspen. Written comments must be submitted by May 6.
“Scoping comments that are specific to this area and these existing leases will be the most effective as we draft the alternatives we will analyze in the EIS,” said Steve Bennett, the field office’s manager. “Public involvement is a critical piece of this analysis and we will consider a wide range of alternatives, which will be made available for public review and comment when drafted.”
BLM expects to release a draft of the EIS and alternatives for public review in early 2015, he indicated. As a result of this EIS, the agency said it could cancel the existing leases, modify their terms and conditions, or keep the existing terms and conditions in place.
It also extended lease suspensions for 25 tracts in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale through Apr. 1, 2016, because they will be included in the EIS. SG Interests holds 18 of the leases and Ursa Resources Group holds seven. Both independent producers are based in Houston.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=BLM+deals+with+oil+companies+and+Logging+companies&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The BLM has been in partnership with, Crown Zellerbach, Weyerhaeuser, Georgia Pacific, et al, including the small time gypo loggers, raping our forests,
logging right up to privately owned lands, destroying ancient Salmon runs, polluting rivers and streams while they use 2-4D to kill and destroy native deciduous tress.
They are one of the biggest cancers in gubbernment and hell bent in collusion with big business.
NO runs
No drips
No errors, errors, errors