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Judge says BLM underreports grazing impacts

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:30:08 MDT

Judge says BLM underreports grazing impacts

By Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 06:30AM MDT

A scathing decision by an administrative law judge has concluded the Bureau of Land Management underreports impacts of grazing leases on Rich County’s 25,000-acre Duck Creek allotment. If the ruling’s reasoning is applied broadly, it could change the way BLM manages grazing on its holdings across the arid West, according to Jim Catlin of Wild Utah Project. “Sound ranching is part of what we need to have local food and sustainable communities,” Catlin said. “Degraded habitat places at risk your ...

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NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:59:38 MDT

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

By ADAM GELLER The Associated Press

Updated Jun 8, 2013 10:59PM MDT

New York • For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching. We knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security camera at a street corner, connected with friends online or talked on a smartphone equipped with GPS, we knew, too, it was conceivable that we might be monitored. Now, though, paranoid fantasies have come face to face with modern reality:...

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NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:23:08 MDT

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

By ADAM GELLER The Associated Press

Updated Jun 8, 2013 05:23PM MDT

New York • For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching. We knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security camera at a street corner, connected with friends online or talked on a smart phone equipped with GPS, we knew, too, it was conceivable that we might be monitored. Now, though, paranoid fantasies have come face to face with modern reality:...