Feds scrap plan to pay Texas landowners
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Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 8--The Army Corps of Engineers this week suspended a wetlands permit for the Rock Creek and Big Hurrah gold mines under construction near Nome.
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By Wagner, Matthew Kaiser, Ronald; Kreuter, Urs; Wilkins, Neal  ABSTRACT: As nearly all of Texas' rural lands are privately owned, landowner associations for the management of white-tailed deer and ground-water have become increasingly popular.
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Congressional Democrats are moving to repeal a law passed by Republicans last year that would have allowed trophy hunts opposed by the National Park Service to continue on a Southern California public island.
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  DENVER - A bill designed to stop the Army from condemning private land to expand the Pion Canyon Maneuver Site made it through a House committee Tuesday, though even some of its supporters admitted it likely is unconstitutional.
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The Bush administration backed away Monday from a proposal that critics said would have forced many of the 2 million poor, elderly or disabled families who use government housing vouchers to foot more of the rent on their own or find substandard apartments.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Dec. 15--A plan to trade state-owned land along the Gunflint Trail above  Grand Marais for land elsewhere in Cook County appears dead.   The Cook County Board and Grand Marais City Council this week unanimously  opposed the trade.
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By Art Chapman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 16--There is a movement in Austin to transfer a number of state historic sites from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the control of the Texas Historical Commission.
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By Harris, Linda  City officials will have to find another way to fund their share of the riverfront park costs after voters this week narrowly rejected a $2.2 million excess levy that would have paid for it as well as other recreation projects.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Sep. 7--WARREN, Minn. -- Marshall County commissioners on Wednesday  rejected a proposed interim law to regulate animal feedlots.
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Texas proposal would force vendors to accept and recycle used equipment.
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The arrangement, led by Appaloosa Management, replaces a $3.4 billion plan that was scrapped after the primary investor withdrew.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday withdrew its proposal to list as threatened a wildflower that grows only in areas of Utah and Colorado where oil shale and tar sand exploration is being done.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
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By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Jan. 30--A proposed tax break to help a Texasbased company build a coal-fired power plant on Navajo land south of Farmington was tripped up Monday by a New Mexico legislative committee.
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By Jeffrey TomichRipples from the $32 billion buyout of TXU Corp. reverberated from Dallas to Wall Street -- even St. Louis -- after an announcement that the utility would scrap plans for most of the 11 coal-fired power plants that it planned to build in Texas.