News from August 2010
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska-The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve's headquarters hazard fuels project begins today, August 30th, 2010. The project aims to thin vegetation and create defensible space around structures where fire poses an unacceptable threat to property and resources. By thinning...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Campgrounds at Glacier National Park begin transitioning to primitive status in early September. When campgrounds are in primitive status NO water is provided. Any water taken from streams or lakes requires treatment before use. Primitive and winter front-country campgrounds include pit toilets, no running water and only a limited number of sites.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz announces the continuation of the 2010 bicycle tour program at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), Interpretive Park Ranger Ryan Locke will lead bicycle tours that focus on how invasive species are affecting our...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: Searchers have flown over 41,000 flight miles to date in the search for a missing floatplane carrying National Park Service employees Mason McLeod, 26, Neal Spradlin, 28, and Seth Spradlin, 20, and pilot Marco Alletto which disappeared on Aug. 21, 2010. Improved weather over the past several days has allowed aircraft to cover some remaining search areas and to search some areas again. No sign of the plane or passengers has yet been reported.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Provo Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of the Interior, awarded a contract under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, totaling $100,000 to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD) of Orem, Utah, for the removal of non-native fish from Utah Lake to aid in the recovery of the native June sucker (Chasmistes liorus).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: Friends of Fort Necessity News Release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: The public is invited to become a member of the Friends of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park (FHVNP) and attend the 2010 Annual meeting at the Kahuku Unit of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2010
News Release: On a hot, late summer evening with quiet ocean waves lapping on the beach, crowds of national seashore visitors gather to watch the excavation of a sea turtle nest in Cape Hatteras National Seashore, as National Park Service biological technicians perform an important part of their duties.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2010
News Release: Visitors are invited to join a Ranger for a hike under the full moon on Thursday, September 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. “Visitors can experience Whiskeytown’s scenic beauty bathed in soft silvery moonlight as we enjoy an easy hike along one of Whiskeytown’s historic water ditches and discover the wonders...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2010
News Release: The gate on South Fork Mountain Lookout Road within Whiskeytown National Recreation Area will be open between Aug. 21, 2010 and Oct. 24, 2010 to accommodate hunters during the archery and general deer seasons. This area is located within California Deer Hunt Zone B-2 and the archery season runs from August 21 through September 12. The general deer season runs from Sept. 18, through October 24.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2010
News Release: King Salmon, AK. The search continues today for a missing floatplane in Katmai National Park and Preserve after inclement weather grounded Friday's operations for most of the day. Searchers are concentrating today on completing aerial grid searches and targeting areas where the plane may have disappeared.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today held the fourth of five joint public workshops to explore the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement in American agriculture. The workshop, led by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Fremont, Calif., man made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges that include distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography and attempted extortion, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned an indictment charging Stephen Jin-Woo Kim with unlawfully disclosing national defense information to a reporter for a national news organization and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that in light of the agreement by United Airlines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. to transfer takeoff and landing rights (slots) and other assets at Newark Liberty Airport to Southwest Airlines Co., the department has closed its investigation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a Detroit-area medical clinic, Juan De Oleo, and a doctor who helped falsify files at the clinic, Dr. Rosa Genao, were convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: On behalf of President Obama and all of us at the Department of Commerce, I join David in welcoming everyone to the 2010 MED Week.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 27, 2010
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released the second estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2010. Growth in real GDP was lowered to 1.6 percent at an annual rate from the advance estimate of 2.4 percent. Most private-sector analysts had expected a revision to 1.4 percent in the second quarter. The downward revision reflected a wider trade deficit and lower inventories than were originally reported.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 27, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Aug 27, 2010
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
