The
U.N. cultural agency UNESCO says that the fact the United States is in arrears
with its contributions – the result of a funding cutoff in response to its
admission of “Palestine” – will have no bearing on pending applications to have
several historical sites in the U.S. declared World Heritage sites next year. That
confirmation, in an email from Paris early Friday in response to queries,
effectively undercuts the arguments being made by some lawmakers who are
pushing for an omnibus spending bill being negotiated ahead of a Jan. 15
deadline to include funding for UNESCO’s World Heritage program. Although the
U.S. cannot restore funding to UNESCO itself without Congress providing a
waiver to the law mandating the cutoff, these lawmakers want a contribution
made specifically to its World Heritage program. Their argument: Failure to do
so may harm the applications for a number of sites, including Franciscan
frontier missions in Texas and Louisiana’s Poverty
Point, to be added to the World Heritage list...more
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.
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