Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, December 08, 2014
Interior secretary disappointed at land swap in Defense bill
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell sharply criticized a proposed land
swap deal attached to a defense bill that would threaten sacred American
Indian land. The swap is part of a massive federal parks and
energy package that was attached to the National Defense Authorization
Act and passed by the House this week. It would transfer the Arizona site of the proposed Resolution Copper
mine — estimated to be one of the largest deposits in the world — to a
British mining company, enabling its development. The land, currently a
national forest, contains a site sacred to the San Carlos Apache tribe,
where warriors are believed to have leapt to their depth in the 19th
century to avoid being captured by troops. “I’m happy to see public lands bills make progress,” Jewell said Saturday, according to the Washington Post.
“The preference on public lands bills is that they go through a typical
process of public lands bills and they get debate and discussion.” But she said the copper mine deal is “profoundly disappointing.”...more
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