Climate Change and Land Management

Freeman Dyson is a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
His thoughts on “Climate Change and Land Management”…
The main subject of this piece is the problem of climate change. This is a contentious subject, involving politics and economics as well as science. The science is inextricably mixed up with politics. [...]

USDA CEAP

In 2003 the USDA began the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) to quantify the environmental benefits from conservation practices on private lands. Andy Manale, a Senior Analyst at USEPA, has been working on the team and has spoken well of CEAPs work.
They have been working on a number of pilots that carefully quantify environmental effects [...]

Concealed Weapons in National Parks…huh?

The Bush Administration, under pressure from the NRA, has opened for comment the notion of allowing concealed weapons in national parks.
What did I just say! I had to read the press release a couple of times…but yes, there it was.
Your chance of being a violent crime victim in a national park is 1 in 708,333.
For [...]

Highway Taxes

This morning on National Public Radio news, there was a report on the state of highway tax revenues. Driver miles were down last year over 3 percent, leaving a significant hole in the highway tax pot (money we pay through gas taxes).
There have been discussions of tax increases, but the Bush administration is advocating for [...]