It will not get better; it will only get worse. The Trump administration is on a mission, a mission of pillage, plunder and exploitation of OUR public lands.
They believe it is their divine and given right to use “it” up, preferably within a single lifetime.
Mineral resources – consume them. Oil, Gas resources – consume them. Forests – consume them. Streams – dam them and pollute them. Air - fill it will smoke and CO2. Ranch and farm lands – sell them to big agriculture LLC’s especially foreign companies. Endangered species – let them go extinct.
This is who they are, this is who you are if you support this administration’s public lands policies.
Don’t support them, don’t carry water for them and above all don’t vote to keep them in office.
Fight back, fight for what is YOURs, if you don’t, they WILL take it.
Now to the headlines:
How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon'
America's largest forest under threat
A brown bear carries a fish with a bald eagle perched upon a rock in the background in Tongass National Forest.
And in the little town of Tenakee Springs, the reaction is "one of shock and dismay."
"After all the work that we put in to keep this area roadless and keep this as pristine as we possibly can," fishing captain Tuck Harry says as he shakes his head.
"And would you characterize yourself as sort of a tree-hugging liberal?" I ask him.
He laughs. "No, not at all. Not a tree-hugging liberal at all," he says, looking across a mirror-flat Tenakee Inlet at hillsides once scarred by clear-cuts.
He's been here since 1960, back when the Forestry Service treated Alaska more as America's lumberyard than sanctuary. In an effort to create jobs in the "Last Frontier," thousand-year-old forests were pulped into paper.
But after years of legal battles and negotiations, a Clinton-era "roadless rule" seemed to settle the issue, protecting Tongass from any new logging or mining interests.
But Trump's fundraiser call last month confirmed reports that he would encourage Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Tongass from the roadless rule, opening almost 10 million acres to development….
Trump administration takes key step to open Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling by end of year
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.
The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.
'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve
Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US
Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.
'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall...
Trump administration to repeal waterway protections
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.
The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.
Make sure you are a public lands voter in 2020 – vote the bums out!
Cheers,
Mark
And Only Our Rivers Run Free
They believe it is their divine and given right to use “it” up, preferably within a single lifetime.
Mineral resources – consume them. Oil, Gas resources – consume them. Forests – consume them. Streams – dam them and pollute them. Air - fill it will smoke and CO2. Ranch and farm lands – sell them to big agriculture LLC’s especially foreign companies. Endangered species – let them go extinct.
This is who they are, this is who you are if you support this administration’s public lands policies.
Don’t support them, don’t carry water for them and above all don’t vote to keep them in office.
Fight back, fight for what is YOURs, if you don’t, they WILL take it.
Now to the headlines:
How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon'
America's largest forest under threat
A brown bear carries a fish with a bald eagle perched upon a rock in the background in Tongass National Forest.
And in the little town of Tenakee Springs, the reaction is "one of shock and dismay."
"After all the work that we put in to keep this area roadless and keep this as pristine as we possibly can," fishing captain Tuck Harry says as he shakes his head.
"And would you characterize yourself as sort of a tree-hugging liberal?" I ask him.
He laughs. "No, not at all. Not a tree-hugging liberal at all," he says, looking across a mirror-flat Tenakee Inlet at hillsides once scarred by clear-cuts.
He's been here since 1960, back when the Forestry Service treated Alaska more as America's lumberyard than sanctuary. In an effort to create jobs in the "Last Frontier," thousand-year-old forests were pulped into paper.
But after years of legal battles and negotiations, a Clinton-era "roadless rule" seemed to settle the issue, protecting Tongass from any new logging or mining interests.
But Trump's fundraiser call last month confirmed reports that he would encourage Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Tongass from the roadless rule, opening almost 10 million acres to development….
Trump administration takes key step to open Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling by end of year
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.
The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.
'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve
Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US
Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.
'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall...
Trump administration to repeal waterway protections
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.
The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.
Make sure you are a public lands voter in 2020 – vote the bums out!
Cheers,
Mark
And Only Our Rivers Run Free