Tag: Tom Vilsack
Vilsack appreciates ‘unique situation’ driving Colorado on roadless rule wildfire mitigation
DENVER — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado's roadless rule, which allows road-building exemptions for wildfire mitigation in wilderness areas, will at least be closely considered as the Obama administration moves toward a comprehensive national rule.
Vilsack on hand as Vail, Forest Service team up to clean...
The state’s largest ski-resort operator will pony up three-quarters of a million bucks over the next three years to help restore forests damaged in...
Colorado delegation pushes to help hard-pressed dairy farmers
Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, sent a letter Thursday asking leaders in both the House and Senate to keep $350 million...
Obama admin dips toe into legal fray over conflicting roadless rule...
Thursday’s court filing by the Department of Justice in the 10th Circuit Court in Wyoming, which has federal jurisdiction over Colorado, indicating the DOJ...
Vilsack earns green brownie points on biochar, Colorado roadless rule
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been making the rounds in Colorado the last couple of days, earning points from enviros at the North American...
Vilsack to keynote North American Biochar conference in Boulder
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will be the keynote speaker Monday evening, Aug. 10, at the North American Biochar conference at the University...
Ritter puts revised Colorado roadless rule back on the drawing board
The long, winding and seemingly endless road to adopting Colorado’s controversial roadless rule took another turn Monday, when Gov. Bill Ritter announced that an...
Vilsack issues directive protecting national forest roadless areas
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thursday issued a memorandum essentially blocking most development and road building on more than 53 million acres of national forest (4.4 million in Colorado) designated as roadless areas.
Conservationists call on Vilsack to suspend, cancel Colorado roadless rule
A growing chorus of Colorado and national sportsmen and conservation groups are calling on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to suspend work on the controversial Colorado roadless rule or pull the plug on it altogether in favor of a strong national rule.
Ag-nominee Vilsack speech at CU Law hints at ethanol, trade and...
Way back in late 2006 former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack ran for the democratic nomination for president — for a whole three months until he gave it up in Feb. 2007. While on the routine nationwide criss-cross tour to make the case for his candidacy Vilsack, long known as a pragmatic centrist, launched into a rather fiery Q&A following a speech at the University of Colorado Law School.
Those remarks could serve as an interesting predictor of Vilsack's approach to food, farming and energy as Pres.-elect Barack Obama's newly nominated U.S. Agriculture Secretary.