| News Releases for Refuge Keeper |
March 1, 2010 LAWSUIT FILED TO BAR GE CROPS FROM NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification
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February 24, 2010 CALL FOR INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW OF BISON RANGE OPERATIONS — Documents Show Poaching, Policing, Pesticide and Financial Problems on Refuge
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February 18, 2010 BISON KILLED IN ANNUAL BISON RANGE ROUNDUP — Tribal Workers’ Inability to Ride Horses Causes Safety and Management Headaches
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June 18, 2009 AMERICA'S TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE REFUGES — Climate Change and Coping with Climate Change Challenge Nature Sanctuaries
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May 11, 2009 HIGHWAY AGENCY BREAKING FEDERAL LAWS ON DELAWARE REFUGE — DelDOT Committing Criminal Wildlife Offenses in Refuge Road Construction
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March 24, 2009 LAWSUIT ENDS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS ON WILDLIFE REFUGE — Ruling on Delaware’s Prime Hook May Affect Farming on Scores of Other Refuges
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December 8, 2008 LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRIBAL TAKEOVER OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — Bison Range Deal Cedes “Inherently Federal” Functions and Bars Public Oversight
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July 10, 2008 FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE HIDING INFLUENCE OF REFUGE DRILLER — Federal Court Asked to Force Government to Release Records
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May 22, 2008 AMERICA’S TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE REFUGES — Threatened by Oil Drilling, Mining, Roads, ORV Use and, Above All – Politics
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April 29, 2008 ARIZONA GAME AGENCY SCAPEGOATS COUGARS FOR BIGHORN TRAVAILS — Agency Engages in “Biological McCarthyism” by Targeting Puma as Bighorn Gain
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April 21, 2008 ARIZONA’S KOFA REFUGE COUGARS GET ONE-YEAR REPRIEVE — Government Halts “Lethal Removal” of Refuge Puma after PEER Intervention
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April 2, 2008 WILDERNESS WATER WAR IN ARIZONA REFUGE OVER BIGHORNS — Former Long-Time Kofa Wildlife Refuge Biologist Says His Agency Is All Wet
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March 20, 2008 OIL DEAL FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE ON FAST TRACK — Yukon Flats Land Exchange Tied to Oil Development but No Time for Appraisals
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December 7, 2007 INTERIOR ISSUES NEW MARCHING ORDERS FOR BISON RANGE DEAL — Funding Agreement with Tribe by Next March but Big Questions Remain
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December 5, 2007 INTERIOR DIRECTS BISON RANGE TO BE HANDED OVER TO TRIBE — Inspector General Report Describes High-Level Political Machinations
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November 13, 2007 FATE OF NATIONAL BISON RANGE HAS BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL — House Leaders Pushing in Opposite Directions on Transferring Refuge to Tribes
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May 17, 2007 TRIBES REJECT FIVE-YEAR BISON RANGE PARTNERSHIP — CSKT Renews Push for Takeover of Refuge Management and More Jobs
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April 11, 2007 NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES SEVERELY SHORTCHANGED — Acre-for-Acre, Refuges Get 17 Cents for Every Dollar Spent on National Parks
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February 1, 2007 WILDLIFE REFUGE CUTS CRIPPLING CONSERVATION, SAY MANAGERS — Survey Cites Declining Habitats and Visitor Safety and Growing Frustrations
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January 18, 2007 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT LEAVES BISON RANGE EMPLOYEES IN DARK — Grievance Appeal Filed; New Threats Against Employees
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January 9, 2007 ABUSES AT NATIONAL BISON RANGE CONFIRMED BY INVESTIGATION — Threats, Intimidation and Safety Concerns Documented in Independent Report
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December 14, 2006 FWS TERMINATES CONTROVERSIAL BISON RANGE AGREEMENT — Agency Rebuffs Efforts by Tribe to Assume Management of Entire Refuge in FY 2007
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November 15, 2006 TRIBE SEEKING TOTAL TAKEOVER OF NATIONAL BISON RANGE — Fish & Wildlife Service May Also Cede Two More Refuges and Five Waterfowl Areas
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October 26, 2006
NATIONAL BISON RANGE EVALUATION CENSORED BY AGENCY — Warnings about Communications Breakdowns and Worsening Relations Were Stifled
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October 12, 2006 STAFF REBEL AGAINST HARASSMENT ON BISON RANGE REFUGE — Joint Complaint of Tribe Trying to Drive Off Staff in Order to Take Over Their Jobs
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July 20, 2006 TROUBLED FIRST YEAR FOR BISON RANGE REFUGE TRIBAL OPERATION — Agreement Renewal in Limbo as Tribe Demands More Funds and Jobs
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February 21, 2005 REFUGE MANAGER CHARGED FOR SAVING THREATENED FROGS — First Case of Refuge Manager Facing Criminal Charges for Wildlife Offense
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February 8, 2005 BISON RANGE EMPLOYEES GIVEN REMOVAL NOTICES — Action Against Refuge Workers While Congressional Review Pending
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December 14, 2004 BISON RANGE DEAL TO BE SIGNED DESPITE OBJECTIONS — Lingering Questions on Terms, Costs and Consequences
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December 2, 2004 CHANGES IN BISON RANGE DEAL; SIGNING DELAYED — FWS Retirees Protest That Concerns Still Not Addressed
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October 18, 2004 REFUGE MANAGERS PROTEST BISON RANGE DEAL AS UNWORKABLE — Joint Letter By 23 Managers Cites Money, Manpower and Performance Problems
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October 13, 2004 INTERIOR REFUSES TO HOLD HEARINGS ON BISON RANGE DEAL — Repudiates Its Own Cost Estimates on Day That Public Comment Period Closes
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October 6, 2004 INTERIOR WITHHOLDING COST FIGURES ON BISON RANGE DEAL — Congressman Calls for Public Hearings
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August 28, 2001 REFUGE DOLLARS NOT REACHING THE GROUND — Manager Survey Cites Bureaucratic Barriers
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