News from August 2011
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: FAIRBANKS - Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Fire Management staff will burn piles of woody debris from August 7, 2011 through Aug. 14, 2011. The piles are located at several sensitive sites across the preserve. The sites include Ben Creek Complex, Gelvin’s Cabin, Coal Creek Dredge, Cheese Camp...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Hawai`i National Park, HI - Kilauea's new eruption action from Pu`u `O`o vent’s west flank and the glow from Halema`uma`u crater continue to draw visitors to Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park and while rangers prepare for a busy weekend, multi-agency fire managers work on extinguishing fires sparked by the new flows.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and his research partners have combined models of wind erosion and regional climate patterns to simulate the sources and dispersion of particulate matter-such as tiny bits of soil and other substances-blowing in dust storms around Mexico City.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. -This afternoon at approximately 12 p.m. a hiker on the trail from Many Glacier to Piegan Pass was attacked by a grizzly bear.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Teddy Bear Picnic to be Held at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD - The National Park Service will offer a ranger-led sculpture workshop at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Aug. 24, 25, and 26. Participants will have the opportunity to carve their own works of art in alabaster stone. The workshop will take place in the historic former studio of Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the monthly jobs report released today...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the release of the latest unemployment data...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Imagine a group of bitterly cold islands cloaked in perpetual fog where unrelenting winds howl through snowcapped mountains spread across 1,200 miles of the world’s most treacherous seas. This harsh environment describes the Aleutians, a chain of more than 300 U.S. islands of southwest Alaska and home...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Yosemite National Park announces the release of The Tioga Road Rehabilitation Environmental Assessment (EA). The Tioga Road is the popular east-west road crossing the northern portion of Yosemite National Park. The road is open seasonally, typically from May through October.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Washington - More than 1,000 new farmers markets have been recorded across the country, according to results released today in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2011 National Farmers Market Directory.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: New York, NY - The United States' maritime history will become a hands-on experience for a group of students from the urban areas of Massachusetts, New York and Maryland Aug. 7 when the National Park Service's (NPS) tall ship the Friendship of Salem sails from Salem Maritime National Historic Site in...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 2:00 this afternoon, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call from a park visitor reporting a man over the edge below Lookout Studio on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement on a compromise to extend the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) operating authority into September...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Dear Commissioner Shulman: At midnight on July 22, 2011, the “Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2011, Part III" expired. The lack of an extension in expenditure authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (trust fund), along with the expiration of excise taxes that support the trust fund means...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Dear Commissioner Shulman: At midnight on July 22, 2011, the “Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2011, Part III" expired. The lack of an extension in expenditure authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (trust fund), along with the expiration of excise taxes that support the trust fund means...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A type III incident management organization is currently working to suppress the New Water Fire (previously referred to as Grand Wash Complex Fire) which include lands within the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, as well as lands managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs -Truxton...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: UND Professor to Discuss Mammals of North Dakota Badlands.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the latest unemployment report...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A type III incident management organization is currently working to suppress the New Water Fire (previously referred to as Grand Wash Complex Fire) which include lands within the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, as well as lands managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs -Truxton...
