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Letter to Congressional leadership requesting action on pending legislation protecting, land, water, and wildlife

Nov 10, 2010

This coalition letter, addressed to Majority Leader Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Boehner, requests that Congress prioritize the consideration of pending legislation affecting America’s citizens, communities, public lands and waters before the close o

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Wild Lands equal Colorado economic benefits

Kathleen Ryan, Public News Service- Colorado
Feb 4, 2011

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From Durango to Commerce City, lawmakers across Colorado are cheering the new "wild lands" policy announced recently by the Bureau of Land Management. Seventy state and local leaders sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday supporting the revised policy, which streamlines wilderness protections.

Art Goodtimes is a San Miguel County commissioner. He says a healthy ecological system equals a healthy economy.

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Interior right to end no more wilderness policy

Editorial Staff, Denver Post
Dec 29, 2010

The reversal strikes a Bush-era decision that left huge amounts of public land vulnerable to damaging oil and gas exploration

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision last week to reverse a Bush-era wilderness policy should be a relief to those who favor a balanced and sensible approach to wildland preservation.

The move, announced Thursday in Denver, supersedes a flawed 2003 decision and returns to the federal Bureau of Land Management the authority to identify and suggest new areas for permanent protection.

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Monuments and oranges

Editorial Staff, Mail Tribune
Feb 3, 2011

Salazar's order and a proposed Siskiyou Crest monument have little connection
 

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When Rep. Greg Walden addressed a group of protestors gathered at the Jackson County Courthouse Tuesday, he addressed two issues: a proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument and an order issued in December by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. One has virtually nothing to do with the other.

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New Wild Lands Policy Offers Hope to Unprotected Wilderness Quality Lands

Dec 30, 2010

This year Christmas came a little early for all Americans who treasure our public lands, when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivered a new policy for protecting wilderness-quality areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The Secretarial Order effectively puts an end to the second class status of wilderness on our public lands that was ushered in by the Bush administration’s “no more wilderness” policy.

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