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.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Obama Proposes Creation Of World's Largest Ocean Sanctuary
President Obama unveiled a proposal on Tuesday that would create the world's largest ocean sanctuary south and west of Hawaii, The Washington Post and The Associated Press are reporting. According
to the outlets, Obama intends to expand a sanctuary created by George
W. Bush. Under the proposal, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National
Monument would go from 87,000 square miles of protected ocean to 782,000
square miles of ocean that surround seven islands and "atolls
controlled by the United States," the Post reports. Obama unveiled his proposal at an oceans conference hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department. "Growing up in Hawaii, I learned early to appreciate the beauty and power of the ocean," Obama said, according to The New York Times.
"And like Presidents Clinton and Bush before me, I'm going to use my
authority as president to protect some of our most precious marine
landscapes, just like we do for mountains and rivers and forests."...more
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment