Federal Agencies Grow Leery of S. Utah Land Sale Proposal
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 15--The Bush administration expressed reservations Thursday about  key provisions of a bill, already opposed by environmental groups, aimed at  shaping the explosive growth in Washington County.
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Two US Interior Department agencies may clash over separate and apparently incompatible efforts to help the northern sage grouse. The Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Here's a dumb idea: The U.S. Department of the Interior has told its U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees in northeastern North Carolina not to respond to public inquiries about the effects of a proposed Navy practice landing field there.
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I don't know what the big deal is about the alleged forgery in Weber County, the embezzlement in Davis County and extortion in Salt Lake County. These people are all U.S. citizens and, as such, should be allowed at least one free crime -- just as many are willing to allow illegal aliens.
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 10--Last year's failed plan by the Bush administration to sell more  than 7,000 acres of national forest land in Georgia and Tennessee is back --  penciled into the president's proposed 2008 budget.   Under the plan, the U.S.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 8--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed  adding a plume of contaminated groundwater stretching from Bountiful to Woods  Cross to its national Superfund list, making it part of a federal cleanup  effort.
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By David Kravets Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court last week to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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By Suzanne Struglinski Deseret Morning News  WASHINGTON -- A New York congressman wants the Bureau of Land Management to stop selling oil and gas leases on federal land in Utah that he says should be protected as wilderness areas.  Rep.
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By Brice Wallace Deseret Morning News  Utah economic developers have a SURE thing for companies looking at putting operations in the state.
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U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a tentative land swap that they say would enlarge an Alaska wildlife refuge but that critics charge would open up the area to oil and gas development.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--For the second time in a year, the Bush administration wants to sell off parts of the Carolinas' national forests.   More than 10,000 acres in the two states are among 273,000 acres the administration would sell nationwide.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 6--WASHINGTON -- A spat over hunting access on school trust lands  spilled into Washington as concerns from hunters groups and intervention from  Rep.
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Property owners' resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about its feasibility.
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By DAVID KRAVETS  SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court Thursday to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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Despite a slight uptick in 2008, federal funding for privately owned land purchases has taken a hit in recent years.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  A Utah congressman wants to know why the U.S. Department of Energy is taking so long to clean up the Moab uranium mill tailings. "I just want to make sure that this project doesn't get delayed and really just sort of slip through the cracks," Rep.
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By Associated Press  LOGAN -- Cache County is fighting with the U.S. Forest Service over whether it can claim to own nearly every mile of road on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.