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Conservation Is About Connectivity

It is often difficult to explain something that doesn’t make sense in a way that it does make sense. Starting with the foundation of the insanity may be the place to start. It was previously revealed that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) adheres to international standards for conservation. Although “fragmentation” and “habitat” are frequently […]

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Heads Up Idaho

In 2018, then Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary, Ryan Zinke, issued Secretarial Order (SO) 3362 which, among other things, called for states to begin the process of identifying wildlife migration corridors “on federal lands” and “harmonize State fish and game management and Federal land management of big-game winter range and corridors.” Several states such as […]

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The US DOI’s New Land Management Strategy (Part 2 of 4)

This is the second part of a four-part series. In Part One, we traced the efforts of a small website directly to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in just four steps. The players just in this one direct lineage ranged from mom & pop to regional coalition to national non-profit to an international […]

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It’s Time To Revisit The GNLCC

Some time has passed since exposing the Great Northern Large Landscape Cooperative (GNLCC) and with new events, it is time to take another look at just how pervasive, diabolical, and advanced this agenda has become. As a reminder, in 2010 the Obama administration, via a memorandum, directed the US Department of Interior (DOI) to create […]

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Sec. Zinke Wants To Reorganize The DOI

In addition to reinstating large conservation cooperatives (LCC) after revoking them through his Secretarial Order 3349, Sec. Zinke now has grand plans to reorganize the Department of Interior (DOI) which will further erode state sovereignty. The essence of reorganizing is redrawing “regional” boundaries and moving employees out of D.C. into those regions for closer “collaboration” […]

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Interior Determines Migratory Bird Treaty Act Does Not Prohibit Incidental Take of Birds

— Published with Permission of WesternWire.net — A Wyoming representative leading the effort to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, along with solar and oil and gas trade associations, applauded the Department of Interior decision to clarify conflicting interpretations of the law for incidental “takings” and decriminalize accidental bird deaths Friday. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), […]

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DOI reverses job-killing Obama-era mineral withdrawal in Minnesota

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — These bureaucratic decisions could decimate local economies, stifle job creation as well as cause significant harm to K-12 education and mining in Minnesota. These were political, anti-mining and anti-education actions taken by the Obama Administration… On December 22, the Congressional Western Caucus (CWC) issued a press release summarizing the Government’s rejection […]

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