http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16353 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 No publisher Rocky Barker Public Lands Federal Employees Appointed Officials Dirk Kempthorne Cecil Andrus Stewart Udall Bruce Babbitt Gale Norton Interior Department Interior secretaries government officials Idaho governors U.S. senators John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Bill Clinton George W. Bush Bush environmental po 2011-11-12T02:30:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/163/5285 As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Sonoran Desert into Arizona rises, the Border Patrol is faced with the need to protect a fragile environment at the same time that it polices the border. No publisher Rebecca Clarren Federal Employees 2010-02-05T09:38:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15867 Elaborate marijuana gardens, created and managed by Mexican drug lords, are turning California’s public lands into a dangerous, illegal, industrial-style landscape No publisher Adam Burke Enforcement pot-growing on public lands illegal activities on public lands Mexican drug lords drug cartels Ed Plantaric law enforcement An Bureau of Land California Bureau of Narcotics Management Federal Employees Dave Burns lands crime public Marijuana planting 2010-02-05T08:31:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/13650 The Bush administration’s plan to privatize federal jobs may be good for business, but bad for the environment and for workers. No publisher Mark Matthews Federal Employees 2010-02-05T09:47:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15868 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 No publisher Greg Hanscom Federal Employees Public lands BLM crime law enforcement marijuana growing drug runners drug cartels Mexican drug lords Forest Service Ann Melle U.S. drug policy murder rape drug trafficking pot growing Civilian Conservation Corps volunteerism backcountry 2010-02-05T08:31:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15180 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 No publisher Greg Hanscom Politics Federal Employees Donald Rumsfeld Iraq Kuwait body armor Iraq military supplies Bush administration civil servants federal scientists whistleblowers Teresa Chambers energy industry citizen activism public employees federal agencies National Park Service fede 2010-02-05T09:22:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14863 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. No publisher Laura Paskus and Mike Kelly Public Lands Federal Employees Mike Kelly National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA Fisheries biologist federal agencies science Bush administration Endangered Species Act Eel River estuary Klamath River Basin fish kills salmon whistleblowers natural resource issues Science 2010-02-05T09:58:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/273/14701 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 No publisher Greg Hanscom comment free-market Jody Sutton Content Analyisis administration Department of Interior Rule private sector Lynn Scarlett Bush Forest Service Federal Employees National Forest Service PEER public Roadless 2010-02-05T09:57:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/273/14702 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. No publisher Matt Jenkins National Forest Service Federal Employees Government contractors CAT team Forest Service Bureau of Land Management National Park Service integrity Mark Rey land-management agencies 2010-02-05T09:57:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/258/14252 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 No publisher Jeff Ruch Federal Employees Bush administration privatization privatizing federal agencies forest stewardship contracts Cooperative Range Improvement Agreements Bush administration Profit Sharing plan 2010-02-05T10:13:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/240/13579 Displaced federal employees may find it difficult to adapt to work in the private sector. No publisher Mark Matthews Federal Employees 2010-02-05T08:40:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/215/10861 Western public-land rangers are being pulled from their regular jobs and reassigned back East, guarding federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and serving as temporary sky marshals. No publisher Michael Milstein Federal Employees 2010-02-05T08:37:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/196/10267 In an interview with HCN's publisher, Bruce Babbitt looks back on eight challenging and productive years as Secretary of Interior. No publisher Ed Marston Federal Employees 2010-02-05T08:33:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/196/10248 In eight years as Interior Secretary, Bruce Babbitt has known some failures but more successes: reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone, halting the New World gold mine, and creating many national monuments, starting with the Grand Staircase-Escalante. No publisher Paul Larmer Federal Employees 2010-02-05T08:33:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/167/5414 A report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility titled "Attacks on Federal Employees" documents a rising tide of violence against Forest Service and BLM staffers. No publisher Karen Mockler Federal Employees 2010-02-05T09:13:45Z News Article