Molalla River amendment to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (H.R. 2781)
October 28, 2009 Markup
Reporting H.R. 2781 out of Committee (View Roll Call Vote)
This bill would designate segments of the Mollala River in Oregon as components of the Wild and Scenic River Systems. Democrats refused to allow an amendment by Rep. Rob Bishop that would restore rural community funding by… Read more »
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an interesting article titled, “Aspen Trees Die Across the West” which notes that “perhaps a combination of factors -- is killing hundreds of thousands of acres of the trees from Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona through Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and into Canada, according to the U.S. government and independent scientists.”
One of the factors noted is that… Read more »
Republican Views on H.R. 2806, "to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and North Casades National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness"
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Today, House Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined the entire Utah Congressional delegation in opposing the America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 (H.R. 1925) – a bill that would lock up 9.5 million acres of land in Utah and block energy development, job creation and public land access. Of the 146 cosponsors of the bill, not a single one is from the state of… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to provide an extended time frame to complete the construction of an underground visitor and education center near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Memorial) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
“The black granite that comprises the Vietnam… Read more »
Of the 136 cosponsors, not a single one is from Utah
On Thursday, October 1, 2009, the National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee will hold a hearing on America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 (H.R. 1925), a bill to establish 9.5 million acres of wilderness land in Utah. This is the latest attempt by Democrats (NREPA, Omnibus Public Lands Act) to lock up… Read more »
