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Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a
chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way
Western public lands are managed
by Rocky Barker,
Jun 12, 2006
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The same solitude that attracts nature-lovers to the
West’s public lands attracts lawbreakers as well –
particularly a growing number of Mexican
marijuana-growers
by Greg Hanscom,
Oct 31, 2005
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Elaborate marijuana gardens, created and managed by
Mexican drug lords, are turning California’s public lands
into a dangerous, illegal, industrial-style landscape
by Adam Burke,
Oct 31, 2005
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Like their military compatriots in Iraq, the American
civil servants charged with managing our public lands, water and
wildlife lack adequate funding, back-up, or the moral support of
their higher-ups
by Greg Hanscom,
Dec 20, 2004
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The biologist who blew the whistle on the National Marine
Fisheries Service over Klamath River fish kill, resigns from his
agency to protest the triumph of politics over science.
by Laura Paskus and Mike Kelly,
Jul 19, 2004
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In trading our public servants for government contractors,
we're cutting the heart out of a public-trust ethic, and showing
there's no faster way to demolish an institution than by parting it
out to the lowest bidder.
by Matt Jenkins,
Apr 26, 2004
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The Bush administration is outsourcing to private
contractors jobs formerly done by employees of federal agencies,
among them the job of the Forest Service Content Analysis Teams
(CATs) – the people who receive and report the comments of
the public. The
by Greg Hanscom,
Apr 26, 2004
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Through its push for privatization, the Bush
administration is quietly engineering a corporate takeover of the
federal government – one that will have harsh consequences
for land management, national parks, scientific integrity and
workforce diversity
by Jeff Ruch,
Sep 15, 2003
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The Bush administration’s plan to privatize federal
jobs may be good for business, but bad for the environment and for
workers.
by Mark Matthews,
Dec 17, 2002
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The Bush administration has ordered federal
land-management agencies to identify jobs that might be performed
more cheaply by the private sector.
by Mark Matthews,
Dec 09, 2002
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