Today, the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands held a legislative hearing on six bills that would limit the President’s authority to use the Antiquities Act to unilaterally designate new National Monuments within certain states.
Last year, an internal document from the Interior Department revealed 14 areas of federal land that the Obama Administration has identified… Read more »
On Monday, September 19, 2011 the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands will hold an Oversight Field Hearing in Sacramento, California on “Restoring Public Access to the Public’s Lands: Issues Impacting Multiple-use on Our National Forests.”
The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land, totaling 8 percent of the United States’ total land… Read more »
On Friday, September 9th the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands will hold a legislative hearing on three bills. The first two bills, sponsored by Representatives Benishek and Broun, respectively, will protect the traditional rights of sportsmen and women to fish, hunt, and pursue outdoor recreation on public lands. The third bill, to be formally introduced by… Read more »
To: Members, Committee on Natural Resources
From: The Honorable Doc Hastings, Chairman
Subject: Recall of bills
Pursuant to Committee on Natural Resources Rule 6(e), I hereby give notice of my intent to recall the listed bills from the following Subcommittees:
Read the entire memorandum HERE. Read more »
Today, FOX News ran a segment on the mountain pine beetle, an insect that has killed over 40 million acres of pine trees throughout the West within the last ten years. The groves of dead trees caused by the mountain pine beetle epidemic leave forests and surrounding neighborhoods susceptible to wildfires.
In July, the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public lands held a field… Read more »
Today the House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1581, the “Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011.” Sponsored by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (CA-22), this bill would release Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas (WSA) that are not suitable for wilderness designation from continued management as de facto wilderness,… Read more »
Dear Senators Boxer, Bingaman, Inhofe, and Murkowski:
As you consider President Obama's nomination of Ms. Rebecca Wodder as Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior, we respectfully write to let you know of our serious concerns with her record as the head of American Rivers, a single purpose interest group focused on litigating against the… Read more »
