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, August 31, 2015
Mount McKinley Renamed Denali Ahead of Obama's Visit
North America's highest mountain is no longer named Mount McKinley. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell signed an order Aug. 28 changing its name to Denali, a local Athabascan name for the mountain, which is located in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. President Obama is scheduled to visit Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 31 in a visit partly intended to call attention to the effects of climate change on the region...more
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