New bill allows more militarization of public lands

  Protecting our public wildlands just got a little harder. On October 5, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee passed the unpopular National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505) by a vote of 26 to 17.  The bill prohibits the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) [...]