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  • Feds intervene in proposed mining project near Okefenokee Swamp, citing lack of input from tribal community

    06/04/2022 8:43:47 AM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 7 replies
    Georgia Recorder ^ | 6/4/2022 | Jill Nolin
    The Okefenokee Swamp lost federal protection under the Trump administration, leaving the fate of the project in the hands of state environmental regulators who have been pressing Twin Pines Minerals LLC for more details about their plans. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday it would reverse the agency’s earlier determination, pointing to an early 2021 directive from President Joe Biden that tribal communities should be consulted on policies impacting them. This means Twin Pines will have to reapply on the federal level, which the company president says will happen. “We have said from the day we announced...
  • Fremont Residents: Limit Grizzlies to Parks

    12/10/2004 11:40:23 AM PST · by hardhead · 32 replies · 827+ views
    Casper Star-Tribune ^ | December 10, 2004 | Brodie Farquhar
    RIVERTON -- More than 300 people crowded into the conference facility of the Riverton Holiday Inn Tuesday night, most to protest the grizzly bear occupancy management plan presented by officials of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The informational meeting, followed by a rancorous question-and-answer session that lasted until 11 p.m., was supposed to explain how the grizzly bear would be managed in Wyoming being removed from federal protection. Quite a few members of the audience sported large, cardboard lapel pins featuring a grizzly bear behind a picket fence, with the caption, "No griz in my backyard." Conservationists were in...