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Wilderness Society President Submits Letter to Congressional Record in Support of Secretarial Order

Mar 1, 2011

In a letter to Doc Hastings, Chairman of House Committee on Natural Resources and Edward Markey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, The Wilderness Society President William H. Meadows sent words of support for Secretarial Order #330 announced in late December 2010.

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NFMA Forest Planning Rule Comment Letter

Mar 1, 2010

This comment letter addresses how our country’s 193 million-acre National Forest System should be managed to meet the challenges and demands of the 21st Century.

The letter was composed specifically in response to a Forest Service request for comment on how the agency should re-write the rules to implement the National Forest Management Act of 1976. The NFMA is one of the most important public land laws that Congress has ever passed. It requires the Forest Service to involve citizens and scientists in designing the management plans for each National Forest and Grassland.

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Congressional leaders signal support for renewable energy policy friendly to wildlife, habitat

Anonymous
May 20, 2010

Conservation groups call Arizona program an example the nation should follow

WASHINGTON D.C. — In an effort to stimulate a national renewable energy policy that is efficient, clean and green, ranking Congressional members today delivered a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Robert Abbey, calling on them to encourage state BLM offices to identify disturbed lands that are appropriate for renewable energy development.

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