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Oil and Gas Activities Within the National Wildlife Refuge System

Description: This report contains sections on recent developments related to oil and gas wells in the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) and related issues for Congress. The report presents information on the number and location of oil and gas wells, compatibility of oil and gas activities with NWRS purposes, and regulatory mechanisms for the administration of oil and gas activities.
Date: May 9, 2018
Creator: Crafton, R. Eliot; Comay, Laura B. & Humphries, Marc
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Outdoor Recreation and Federal Laws: Selected Annotated References, 1970-1973

Description: This report provided an extensive annotated list of references for outdoor recreation literature. The references were divided into three categories: those relating to National or State Parks, those relating mainly to National Forests, and Congressional documents on subjects relating to outdoor recreation.
Date: January 1974
Creator: Siehl, George H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PILT (Payments in Lieu of Taxes): Somewhat Simplified

Description: This report discusses the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program that compensates local jurisdictions (generally counties) for lost tax property tax revenue due to the presence of federal lands in their county. It covers all NPS, NFS, and BLM lands, some National Wildlife Refuge lands, and a few military lands. The payment calculations are based on a complicated five part system and the program has been criticized for paying vastly different amounts to some counties with similar land amounts a… more
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Hoover, Katie
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Presidential Authority to Create a National Monument on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Description: In the Antiquities Act, Congress authorized the President to create National Monuments. Recently, there has been discussion of a possible monument designation involving the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Several issues surround that possibility, including the potential size of such a monument and whether provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act might preclude the designation. In addition, that Act provides for the termination of certain … more
Date: June 19, 2000
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The President's Forest/Roadless Area Initiative

Description: On October 13, 1999, President Clinton announced a new approach to the management of the roadless areas in the National Forest System that may prohibit new road construction and certain other activities in inventoried readless areas and extend some protections to non-inventoried roadless areas as well.
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Property Rights "Takings": Justice O'Connor's Opinions

Description: When Justice O’Connor ascended to the Supreme Court, expectations were that she would adhere to the conservative line and generally uphold the property rights position over the government’s in Fifth Amendment “takings” cases. This did not happen. Instead, in this area as well as others, she established her place at the Court’s ideological center. To be sure, Justice O’Connor made many arguments favoring property owners, in both her opinions and her concurrences and dissents. But this asserted e… more
Date: August 19, 2005
Creator: Meltz, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: August 20, 2001
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: January 24, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: March 7, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: April 4, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: May 9, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: May 16, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: June 23, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: July 30, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: September 11, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: October 10, 2003
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: June 14, 2002
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: July 25, 2002
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: September 13, 2002
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests

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Date: October 28, 2002
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
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