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In This Issue- Weekly News Clips -- January 7, 2013
BLM Agents Continue to Investigate Petroglyph Crimes
Exquisite Beauty Abounds in the World Beneath Our Feet
Management Plan for 10 Nevada Wilderness Areas OK'd
Petroleum Reserve Plan a Solid Compromise
BLM plans for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
BLM Agents Continue to Investigate Petroglyph Crimes
Sierra Wave
January 1, 2013
Bureau of Land Management investigators continue to
look into the case of the stolen and damaged petroglyphs near Bishop. A month
ago, BLM reported that someone had used a power saw, generators and ladders to
cut out and take at least four petroglyphs, leaving dozens of others damaged.
The news went global.
One of the BLM agents working on the case is Melody
Stehwein. She said in the new year the investigation is still ongoing. She said
donations are still being made and that the $2,000 reward for information in
the case has gone up. She said the climbing community, for one, had contributed
to the fund.
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Exquisite Beauty Abounds in the World Beneath Our Feet
Ruidoso Free Press
December 31, 2012
In this special season of peace on earth and goodwill
toward men, the name given to this particular section of the Snowy River
Passage in Lincoln County's Fort Stanton Cave is appropriate. According to
Lynda Sánchez, public outreach liaison for the Fort Stanton Cave Study Project,
"Harmony Hall exhibits hundreds if not thousands of stalactites formed over
thousands of years (shown below). Called soda straws in this particular section
they resonate as if in special orchestrated symphonic mode."
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Management Plan for 10 Nevada Wilderness Areas OK'd
The Sacramento Bee
December 30, 2012
Federal land managers have completed a management plan
for 10 wilderness areas around northwestern Nevada's sprawling Black Rock
Desert.
Kristine Struck, a wilderness specialist for the Bureau
of Land Management, said public meetings on the plan drew few people because it
was not controversial.
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Petroleum Reserve Plan a Solid Compromise
Statesman Journal
December 29, 2012
2012 ended with the Obama administration making a wise
compromise on oil and animals. The Interior Department issued its final
management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
This matters to Oregonians because the petroleum
reserve is the nation's largest contiguous piece of public land - more than 22
million acres - and is home to millions of migratory waterfowl that summer in
the Arctic before flying south to Oregon and other states. Just as Oregon's
salmon runs depend on a healthy ocean, Oregon's migratory waterfowl depend on a
healthy global ecosystem.
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BLM plans for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
High Country News
December 24, 2012
On a chilly June afternoon several years ago, I sat for
hours on a muddy sandbar, entranced as a seemingly endless procession of
migrating caribou swam across a northwestern Alaska river. The air was filled
with splashing, the grunting of cows, the answering calls of their calves.
Perhaps some 2,000 animals passed by.
You might think this occurred in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, the state's most famous caribou habitat. But it was actually
about 200 miles to the west, in a remote, roughly 23-million-acre chunk of
federal land known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Set aside
in 1923 to provide fuel to the military, it has yet to produce any energy for
commercial use. It's rich with wildlife, though -- some 400,000 caribou, plus
grizzlies, polar bears, wolves, wolverines, peregrine falcons, brant geese,
spectacled eiders and more. Many Inupiaq villages rely on subsistence hunting
here.
Now, the Bureau of Land Management is about to issue
the final version of its first-ever comprehensive plan for the NPR-A.
Surprisingly enough, the agency intends to put about half of the "petroleum"
reserve off-limits to drilling. Conservationists are cheering, while energy
developers and pro-industry Alaskan officials seethe.
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