Ryan Zinke‘s Interior Department is working behind the scenes to build a controversial and long-contested road through the heart of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, documents show. The refuge was established more than 30 years ago to conserve wetlands and habitats for migrating birds, brown bears and salmon and other wildlife. 300,000 of its 315,000 […]
Despite receiving 2.8 million comments from the public in support of our national monuments, U.S. Department of the Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke has advised President Trump to change the way at least 10 of these treasured areas are managed and to shrink the boundaries of at least four of them. Zinke’s report, submitted to Trump […]
Last month, the Trump administration raised environmental alarm bells when–under alleged beverage industry pressure—it rescinded the 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” in national parks, an Obama-era guideline that allowed parks to prohibit the sale of disposable plastic water bottles on park facilities to reduce waste and carbon emissions. Enter Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois, who introduced […]
Environmentalists who oppose Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke‘s plans to shrink our national monuments might have an unlikely but politically powerful ally on their side—hunters. Many hunters, anglers and other sportsmen are speaking out against the former Montana congressman over his controversial recommendation to adjust the boundaries of a “handful” of the 27 national monuments under […]
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke will recommend unspecified boundary adjustments for a “handful” of the 27 national monuments under review by the Trump administration, according to an interview with the Associated Press. Zinke commented that he will not ask President Trump to rescind any designations or revert sites to new ownership. Any areas removed from the […]
A new analysis found that 99.2 percent of the millions of public comments submitted about Bears Ears National Monument and other parks opposed the executive order that placed them under scrutiny. In April 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to review 27 parks designated since the beginning of 1996, with an eye toward shrinking […]
By Thursday the Trump administration’s project of dismantling the public domain will burst into full bloom when Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke announces a wholesale reversal of more than a century of public lands protection through presidential designation of national monuments under Antiquities Act of 1908. No president since the act was passed under Theodore Roosevelt […]
In less than one week, Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke will submit his final recommendations to President Trump on whether 27 national monuments around the country should be downsized, eliminated, transferred to state control or left alone. But as Aaron Weiss, the media director of the conservation group Center for Western Priorities, pointed out: “Rather than […]
By Mary Sweeters and Olivia Smith For almost two centuries, the Interior Department has been charged with managing public lands and waters in the best interests of the American people. Emphasis on people. Somehow, President Trump’s Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke missed the memo—repeatedly. Instead of looking out for American taxpayers, Zinke is advocating for the […]
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