Environmental Group Bids on Grazing Leases
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By STACI MATLOCK  FOREST GUARDIANS  Santa Fe-based Forest Guardians is bidding for two more grazing leases totaling 2,000 acres of New Mexico state trust lands.
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Avant-green market traders are going beyond mere carbon offsets. They've started buying up forests and rivers that keep the planet clean and diverse, and then selling shares in the natural services provided by these resources. Will it work?
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Construction firms are invited to bid for the right to build five new eco-villages in England.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 14--Some people believe that conserving natural resources and protecting the environment are moral issues. An article in Sunday's Messenger-Inquirer written by reporter James Mayse examined that very question.
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The Bureau of Land Management is asking Utahns interested in managing and conserving federal land to try out for a place on an advisory resource council.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 17--ROCKY FORD - The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District is looking at a long-term lease of 11 acres of land it would buy near the Colorado State University Agricultural Research Center near Rocky Ford.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  â Royal Dutch Shell led a handful of petroleum companies in bidding Wednesday for leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaskaâs northwest shore.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 9--Producers interested in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) are invited to attend an informational meeting concerning the maintenance and care of their program cover.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 30--SALIDA -- The growing business of ecotourism or "wildlife watching," which annually generates more than $1 billion in the state's revenue, will be the focus of a Colorado Division of Wildlife meeting Wednesday.
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By Joe Baird, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 12--Environmentalists and outfitters are asking the Bureau of Land  Management to shelve a proposed gas drilling project near the White River in  eastern Utah.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 14--You'd think the chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee would be up on environmental issues.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--El Dorado Irrigation District officials expressed interest in partnering with El Dorado County to develop a regional habitat conservation plan that could streamline the environmental review process for both agencies.
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For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love. He uses rotational grazing on his rangeland. Some 41 acres of native grass strips protect water quality on the streams that flow on the farm. Wildlife areas are left for deer, turkey and prairie chickens.
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By ROB PAVEY  AUGUSTA, Ga. - Five environmental groups, including Augusta- based Savannah Riverkeeper Inc., asked a federal panel this week for the authority to make official comments involving the proposed expansion of the Vogtle nuclear generating plant.
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By Tammy Alhadef, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--TRINIDAD -- Forty acres of land within the Spanish Peaks state wildlife area were removed from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale after a protest by the Colorado Wildlife Federation.