House Natural Resources Committee Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s Secretarial Order to allow the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to designate areas as “Wild Lands” – essentially giving the Administration the ability establish de facto Wilderness areas without Congressional approval:
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On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the National Park Service, a new federal bureau of the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the Department. Today, the National Park System comprises 392 national parks and 2,461 national historic landmarks.
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Today, the House of Representatives will vote on the FY 2010 Supplemental Appropriations bill that contains a provision allowing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to transfer an unlimited amount of funds to the Department of the Interior (DOI) in the form of environmental mitigation payments demanded in return for allowing the U.S. Border Patrol to simply do its job to secure the… Read more »
U.S. Closes Park Land Along Mexico Border to Americans
FOX News
June 15, 2010
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Note: To help address violence on federal lands along the border, House Republicans, led by National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Rob Bishop (UT-01), have introduced legislation (H.R. 5016) to ensure that the Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture do not… Read more »
Yesterday, during a Full Committee markup, Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee voted against two amendments offered by National Parks, Forest and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop (UT-01) to ensure that National Park designations are not used to block or oppose the construction of wind, solar or coal power projects.
Bishop Amendment to H.R. 2899,… Read more »
Tracking Your Taxes: Park Pork?
February 9, 2010, 12:05 PM ET
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William La Jeunesse
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If you are hoping to visit the newest crown jewel in America's park system chosen by Congress, throw away the car keys and open up your wallet. The 2,900 pristine acres of beachfront property were not cheap -- or even in the United States.
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 3726, the Castle Nugent Historic Site Act , which creates a new $50 million park in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands:
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“Madame Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume, and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my… Read more »
On Wednesday, President Obama is expected to propose a three-year spending freeze during his State of the Union Address. As one senior administration official explained: "You can't afford to do everything that you might have always wanted to do…you have to take steps to control spending."
Unfortunately, the Democrat Majority in Congress doesn’t seem to share the President’s new position… Read more »
Virgin Islands land eyed for historic site
January 25, 2010
Washington Times
Stephen Dinan
The National Park Service hasn't yet decided whether it wants beachfront land in the U.S. Virgin Islands for a new national historic site, but House Democrats for the second time in two weeks will try to push the Park Service to do it, at a potential eventual cost in the tens of millions of… Read more »
National Park Service Authorities and Corrections Act of 2009 (H.R. 3804)
November 18, 2009 Full Committee Markup
Reporting H.R. 3804 out of Committee (Voted favorably by voice vote)
The National Park Service Authorities and Corrections Act of 2009 would authorize a ten year extension to the National Park System Advisory Board and the National Park Service… Read more »
