News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
Katmai National Park and Preserve (Katmai) is pleased to announce that Brooks Camp Campground will open at 100% capacity for the 2022 season. Katmai program managers are closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) and the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) hosted a ceremony today to officially reopen a half mile section of trail within the George Washington Memorial Parkway at Turkey Run Park.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
Bandelier National Monument’s Natural Resources Program Manager Sarah Milligan, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Dorothy Hoard Stewardship Award by the Friends of Bandelier. Dorothy Hoard, who established the non-profit group that supports activities in at Bandelier, was a historian, preservationist, and environmentalist who passed away in 2014.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
Capitol Reef National Park is ready for the busy spring season.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office announces the temporary closure of certain public lands under its administration from March 11 through March 12, 2022.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office has approved the Slaughterhouse Canyon proposal for the competitive sale of mineral materials on a 119-acre site of public subsurface estate about four miles north of Lakeside in San Diego County.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management El Centro Field Office is initiating an environmental review and seeking public input on a proposal from Southern Empire Resources Corporation to conduct mineral exploration for gold at the Oro Cruz Pit Area in Cargo Muchacho Mountains in Imperial County.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management announces that it is seeking public nominations for vacant positions and positions that will become vacant on its Southern New Mexico Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues within the Pecos District, Las Cruces District and Socorro Field Office.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Ely District’s fuels management team recently completed two sagebrush-steppe habitat restoration treatments, masticating established pinyon-pine and juniper on nearly 1,000 acres of the public lands in White Pine County’s Cherry Creek and Kern mountain ranges.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Deschutes Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM), Prineville District will implement a fee change on the individual special recreation permit (boater pass) for floating the wild and scenic portion of the Lower Deschutes River. Effective April 1, 2022, the boater pass fee will be a flat rate of five dollars, per person, per day.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office plans to burn roughly 200 slash piles across 40 acres along the Price River corridor. The prescribed burn will begin as soon as this week when favorable weather and personnel conditions exist.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Cedar City Field Office has approved the construction and maintenance of a new communications facility in the Mountain Home area to improve public safety.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
Starting on March 11, multiple local, state and national organizations will team up to help mitigate fire risks around Moab. Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response organization, and partner organizations will work in the wildland urban interface within and near the City of Moab to reduce potential fire risks.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Continental Brick Co. after an investigation found the employer exposed workers to respirable crystalline silica at the company's brick manufacturing facility in Martinsburg.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
Darris Cotton of Vista pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud charge, admitting that he submitted false applications for unemployment benefits to California’s Employment Development Department.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
A Union, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for illegally obtaining more than $450,000 in unemployment insurance benefits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
A Southwest Virginia man, who conspired with more than 30 others in a scheme to defraud the government of more than $499,000 in unemployment benefits, was sentenced this week to 30 months in federal prison.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
A Providence man has been ordered detained in federal custody on charges that he filed fraudulent applications for pandemic unemployment assistance payments in at least eight states and that he threatened to assault a corrections officer, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
A North Providence woman today admitted in federal court that she provided false information to a mortgage lender when applying for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)- backed mortgage, and that she fraudulently applied for a COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and unemployment insurance benefits under both the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By Press release submission | Mar 7, 2022
A federal jury convicted a pair of Southwest Virginia residents yesterday who conspired with at least thirty others in a scheme to defraud the government of more than $499,000.
