The National Post in Canada recently reported that Canada’s conservative government — led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper — has been lobbying against America drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:

Harper himself was not asked about ANWR and did not state a position on the drilling issue during his most recent pre-election tour of the [...]

Jaime Gonzalez, President of the Friends of Aransas and Matagorda Island (FAMI) National Wildlife Refuges, has sent out an email to Refuge System supporters regarding help for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel who were affected by Hurricane Ike.
The letter states:

As you well know, Hurricane Ike dealt a severe blow to portions of the [...]

As I write this, President Bush is about to sign a continuing resolution, which will keep the government operating into the new fiscal year. The CR would fund at current levels the budgets of most departments and federal agencies until March 6, 2009 — after a new administration has been sworn in.
Meanwhile, national wildlife refuges [...]

Today is National Public Lands Day — an annual event that is a program of the National Environmental Education Foundation, which promotes volunteerism on all publicly accessible lands at the federal, state, and local levels.
As part of this year’s celebration, one million trees have been planted to honor the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has just put out this important announcement regarding an upcoming congressional vote on refuge funding for recovery from natural disasters, including the recent Hurricane Ike:

Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago, Hurricane Ike battered refuges along the Gulf Coast and before that, refuges in Florida, the Midwest and the east coast were [...]

As this blog previously reported (here and here), the Department of Homeland Security had requested permission to build permanent towers for the Secure Border Initiative Network on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
Today azcentral.com published an Associated Press story saying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has made a final determination on [...]

Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne recently announced that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission approved $4.1 million in funding to add more than 4,400 wetland acres to seven national wildlife refuges.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release:

Among the wetlands that will be acquired in national wildlife refuges are 2,027 acres for the [...]

On September 16, the Houston Chronicle reported that Tim Cooper, project leader for McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Texas, reported to the Associated Press that the tidal surge from Hurricane Ike had left a “sheen” of oil at the refuge. Cooper also reported that a smaller amount of oil had flowed into the nearby [...]

As I reported in this blog (here and here), the House and Senate had been considering a land swap bill that would build a $15.6 million, nine-mile gravel road through federally designated wilderness at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. This is a project that has been heavily pushed by Alaskan lobbyists, Governor Sarah Palin, [...]

As many readers may already know, the Bush administration has decided to make one last assault on the Endangered Species Act before leaving office for good. Apparently it’s not enough that the Bush administration has repeatedly refused to list endangered species during the last eight years unless forced to by a court of law — [...]