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Missoulian: Baucus bill orders coordinated response to global warming

Climate Change:  Various Adaptation Efforts Are Under Way at Key Natural Resource Management Agencies

“Since 2007, the Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service have taken steps to establish strategic directions for addressing climate change adaptation. For example, the Forest Service developed a strategic framework document that established climate change adaptation as a central agency priority and another document, known as "the roadmap," which identified actions that national forest managers were taking or could take to implement the direction outlined in the framework, including re-vegetating ecosystems that had been affected by fire with plant species that are better adapted to current and future climates. These four agencies have also developed guidance, training, and other tools for managers to use in adapting to climate change. For example, the National Park Service is developing guidance for park-based climate change adaptation plans that includes steps such as identifying conservation targets and conducting vulnerability assessments. The Bureau of Land Management has not established a strategic direction for addressing climate change impacts but is planning to develop a high-level climate change adaptation strategy by the end of the summer 2013. In addition, GAO visited one field location within each agency and found that managers at four of the five locations have taken steps to address climate change adaptation.”

S.601: Water Resources Development Act of 2013
S.AMDT.847: To modify a provision relating to Northern Rockies headwaters extreme weather mitigation.

Missoulian: Forest Service sets 2 public meetings to discuss Rainbow Family gathering near Jackson 

2013 Rainbow Family of Living Light Gathering

“The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a self-described loose knit group of people without leadership or organization who participate in a national gathering once a year on national forests during a two-week period around the Fourth of July holiday. The event has drawn anywhere from 7,000-20,000 people, with the population generally peaking during the week of July 4.”

Missoulian: Most Montanans know little about new health insurance marketplace
HHS launches Health Insurance Marketplace educational tools

Missoulian: High court sends back Texas race-based plan

Missoulian: 3 blockbusters among Supreme Court's last cases

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (workplace harassment)