INTERIOR
Zinke asked to headline N.D. petroleum conference
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been invited to serve as the keynote speaker at this year's Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in North Dakota.
Jennifer Yachnin
Reporter
Jennifer writes about public lands issues, including access, development and the state land transfer movement. She previously covered campaigns and elections at E&E. Before joining E&E News in 2011, she spent 10 years at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call where she worked as an investigative reporter writing about ethics, campaign finance and congressional wealth. Her work has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Detroit News and on National Public Radio. She has appeared as an expert guest on outlets including C-SPAN, NPR and local television. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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NATIONAL MONUMENTS
Bill would create wilderness areas in N.M. site
New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D) reintroduced legislation yesterday that aims to designate more than 21,000 acres of the Río Grande del Norte National Monument as wilderness.
PUBLIC LANDS
If lawsuits fail, bulldozers may follow
AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. – Anti-government activists including Ryan Bundy want to bulldoze a federal water project near the Patch of Heaven Christian camp inside a national wildlife refuge, but its owners so far have kept the battle in federal court.
PUBLIC LANDS
This Patch of Heaven emerges as anti-government hotbed
AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. — Critics of federal land management, including Nevada rancher turned gubernatorial candidate Ryan Bundy, will gather tonight in this remote area west of Las Vegas to rally for the movement's newest cause célèbre: Patch of Heaven.
BLM
Thousands of dollars in gift cards missing — IG
The Bureau of Land Management cannot account for thousands of dollars in gift cards intended for "official purchases," Interior's Office of Inspector General has found.