Interior Department

The biggest mustang groups in the West have condemned it.

Pendley said he was encouraged by the fact the agency adopted out more than 7,000 mustangs and burros captured last year.

She also was a leader in a movement that called for more local input on federal land management plans.

The park service received more than 109,000 comments on the proposal, most of them opposed, during a two-month comment period that ended in late December.

An Interior Department official declined to say if she's still in the running for the job.

Widespread reports of misconduct have tarnished the image of the Park Service and the Interior Department.

The measure failed on a vote of 51-to-49 in the Republican-led chamber.

The Interior Department's inspector general says the division's supervisor should have known about and addressed some of the alleged misconduct.

The state game commission moved a step closer to ending federal protection for wolves in Wyoming during a meeting last week in Casper.

A policy that called for federal acres to be inventoried for Wild lands characteristics has been shelved.
The Interior department made the announcement Wednesday  saying the so-called 'Wild Lands Policy' will be replaced by locally-supported efforts to preserve wilderness.
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