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Results for keyword: budget cuts

  • Not all government programs need cutting

    Not all government programs need cutting

    The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Oct 13, 2011
  • Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

    Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

    The Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle highly erodible cropland, is facing budget cuts and other challenges.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Sep 20, 2011
  • Save the land by saving the rancher

    Save the land by saving the rancher

    The best way to preserve the West's public lands is by preserving the West's ranchers.

    by Amos Eno, Sep 08, 2011
  • Locked boxes

    Locked boxes

    About 2,000 post offices - some of them in small, remote Western towns - will be closed this year.

    by Emilene Ostlind, Jun 13, 2011

  • Heard around the West

    Gail Kimbell and the vanishing Forest Service budget; not saying the Pledge in Mesa, Ariz.; racing old beaters in California; talkative men’s rooms; saying it (the Miranda warning, that is) with flowers.

    by Betsy Marston, Mar 05, 2007

  • The Latest Bounce

    U.S. Geological Survey gets Yucca Mountain research funding cut; logging halted on Giant Sequoia National Monument; New Mexican politicians fight proposal to drill in Valle Vidal

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 03, 2005

  • For sale: Your local ranger station?

    Facing severe budget cuts, the Forest Service is selling off property, and considering closing some recreation sites it considers too expensive to maintain

    by Michael Milstein, May 30, 2005
 

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