New District Manager for area that includes Carrizo Plain National Monument

News Release
For Release: February 23, 2009
Contacts: John Dearing (916) 978-4622 or Jan Bedrosian (916) 978-4612
CA-CDD-09-05
Kathy Hardy is named BLM district manager for Central California
The Bureau of Land Management has selected Kathy Hardy of El Dorado Hills, California, as the district manager for the newly formed Central California District.
Hardy will be headquartered in [...]

Politics as Usual: A Yes-Man Advanced to Head BLM

Mike Pool, the BLM California Director who rejected Marlene Braun’s appeal over her suspension for sending an email to people with whom she worked has now been promoted. Pool, who had approved the Resource Management Plan Braun submitted before her field office Ron Huntsinger arrived quickly changed his tune and began doing what the Bush [...]

Bullying in the Federal Workplace

Workplace bullying is getting the attention of several state legislatures this term, from Vermont to New York and New Jersey in the east, and Illinois in the Midwest, and Utah in the West. Workplace bullying is a problem beyond the states, though. This blog exists largely because a federal employee, a monument manager of the [...]

The California Desert Conservation Area

Before you read this press release, consider signing the petition to the Dept. of Interior to release an investigation it completed several years ago on the death of monument manager Marlene Braun: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/JusticeforMarleneBraun. Help her family, friends, and all of the people who care about the Carrizo Plain find some closure to this tragedy.
Immediate [...]

A Resource Management Plan, a Petition for Justice and a Bio-Gem!

A lot is happening on the Carrizo. The draft RMP has been released. You can download the plan at http://www.blm.gov/ca/pdfs/bakersfield_pdfs/CarrizoRMP2009/Draft2009/Index-Main.pdf.
There is also a petition to release the Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General’s full report, with testimony, to the people who have requested it, such as the Trust of Marlene Braun, the family [...]

National Defense Counsel Bio-Gems

Petition to Release Dept. of Interior Report
NRDC Identifies 13 Threatened Natural Areas in the Americas as “BioGems”
WASHINGTON (February 3, 2009) — The Natural Resources Defense Council named 13 natural areas and six associated wild species as “BioGems” today. These extraordinary and at-risk places stretch from the Arctic in Alaska to Patagonia in Chile. New to [...]

Carrizo Plain named as environmental “Bio Gem”

Petition for Justice for Marlene Braun
Carrizo Plain is New BioGem
Peace-Athabasca Delta named a BioGem
By Hanneke Brooymans, edmontonjournal.com
February 3, 2009
EDMONTON — Among the crown jewels of Canada’s boreal forest tracts, the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta stands out as a BioGem, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The environmental organization named the region as one of [...]

Carrizo plan may limit grazing for 1st time

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/JusticeforMarleneBraun Please Sign the Petition for Marlene!
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/607982.html
Sunday, Feb. 01, 2009
Carrizo plan tilts toward wildlife food
The first management plan for the monument reduces the amount for livestock grazing
David Sneed – dsneed@thetribunenews.com
Eight years after the sprawling and ecologically diverse grasslands in San Luis Obispo County’s southeastern corner became the Carrizo Plain National Monument, [...]