Tag: protect
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September 19, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
Tourists, Scientists, and Locals All Turning to Monument for Opportunity.
DENVER, CO (September 18, 2006) -- Ten years after former President Clinton designated Grand Staircase - Escalante National . . . more
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October 16, 2007 04:55 AM EDT --
Diego Garcia - Below the waves...
In August of 2004 I was part of a small team (three) that surveyed the reef habitats of Diego Garcia, Chagos in the Indian Ocean.
US . . . more
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August 29, 2006 07:18 AM EDT --
One Year After Hurricane Katrina
Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems are recovering, but much still needs to be done
In the year since Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas across the Gulf of Mexico, . . . more
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August 11, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
More than 300,000 acres of national forest and up to a half million acres of other public lands would be sold if Congress goes along with two proposals in President Bush's 2007 budget. Both ideas have . . . more
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October 27, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
For Immediate Release:
Feds Plan to Mothball Nation's First Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge System Funding Reaches Crisis Point
October 26, 2006 – A federal plan made public today . . . more
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October 27, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
Grand Mesa Slopes, Colorado
What's at stake?
The Grand Mesa Slopes tower stunningly above the Grand Valley in western Colorado. The area is home to a great diversity of forest types and wildlife habitat, . . . more
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October 09, 2007 05:16 AM EDT --
I had the good fortune and opportunity to visit the Galapagos Islands in 1992 with my father, when I was 22 years old. We spent time in Ecuador first. We flew into Guayaquil and switched to an Ecuador . . . more
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November 14, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
I was part of a marine biological survey team that worked at Diego Garcia in 2004. These photos are from that trip.
Diego Garcia is a Coral Atoll Island that is part of the Chagos Archapelago, sitting . . . more
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September 13, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
The wild lands of the Zion-Mojave region of southwestern Utah feature stunning and dramatic landscapes of sandstone cliffs and canyons, Joshua tree forests, and more. These lands, many of them wilderness . . . more
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August 24, 2006 03:36 PM EDT --
SALT LAKE CITY (August 9, 2006) -- Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today called for an internal Interior Department investigation into the implications of a newly obtained e-mail from a Utah lobbyist that . . . more
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October 24, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
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Bridger-Teton National Forest's Wyoming Range, Wyoming
What's At Stake?
With spectacular mountain meadows, blue-ribbon trout streams . . . more
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November 17, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Otero Mesa, New Mexico
What's at Stake?
Otero Mesa encompasses 1.2 million acres of Chihuahuan Desert grassland between the Hueco and Guadalupe Mountains in eastern New Mexico. This expanse of pristine . . . more
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October 31, 2006 10:22 AM EST --
Utah's Redrock Wilderness
What's at Stake?
Although much of Utah remains wild today, only approximately 1 million acres of this vast state are protected as wilderness. Citizens have identified . . . more
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April 15, 2007 08:50 AM EDT --
Developer Jim Gordon, of the Cape Wind project, may have been thinking "It is sometimes better to apologize than ask for permission" when his company omitted the dredging of Horseshoe Shoal from . . . more
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November 16, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Clear Fork Divide, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The wild peaks and deep forests of western Colorado—areas like the Clear Fork Divide region–helped inspire the country's first Wilderness . . . more
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October 18, 2006 04:23 PM EDT --
At Stake
19.6 million acres of boreal forests, rugged mountains, sweeping tundra vistas, wild rivers, coastal lagoons, and barrier islands so untrammeled that one may walk for days without seeing signs . . . more
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November 02, 2006 02:48 PM EST --
Roan Plateau, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The towering and spectacularly lush Roan Plateau is located just northwest of Rifle, Colorado. Rising precipitously 3,500 feet above the Colorado River valley, . . . more
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November 14, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Upper Green River Valley, Wyoming
What's at Stake?
Located 100 miles southeast of Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley consists of sagebrush mesas punctuated by meandering . . . more
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November 03, 2006 11:31 AM EST --
Vermillion Basin, Colorado
What's at Stake?
Visitors to Colorado's wild canyon country can gaze across panoramic vistas of glowing redrock, discover hidden canyons, and walk for miles across . . . more
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November 06, 2006 01:17 PM EST --
Valle Vidal, New Mexico
What's at Stake?
Valle Vidal, Spanish for "Valley of Life," is a lush, 100,000-acre mountain basin in the heart of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern . . . more
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