bernhardt edited a draft of a letter from career fish and wildlife service staff to the e.p.a. it announced the interior department wouldn't be delivering the fish and wildlife assessment to the agency as planned. this, colleagues, is where mr. bernhardt put the brakes on this important fish and wildlife report about the pesticides. according to "the new york times" report, the pesticide analysis was blocked in conjunction with a radical shift in how fish and wildlife analyzes the effects of these pesticides. the change greatly increased the burden of proof the agency is required to meet to demonstrate pesticide effects on species. according to that article in the "times," it would like lay result in fewer new restrictions on pesticide use. crop life and rise, the tax rate associations that represent the pesticide companies, they were very much in favor of this, praising it. based on the documents, i asked mr. bernhardt at the hearing why he would come to my office and sell me on its ethics when the reports and the documents i just read show otherwise. he had no response. i had

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fish and wildlife service in alaska detailing numerous areas where the interior department does not have enough information about polar bears to determine whether or not the arctic wildlife refuge drilling would harm or kill polar bears or destroy designated critical habitat. are you aware of this memo? >> i'm generally aware of the memo. >> okay. do you believe in the analysis? the interior department apparently shared this memo because they believe the science and some of that information might be being suppressed. do you believe in the analysis conducted by the department's scientists incorporated into that eis? if you don't know the answer, you can answer later. i want to know whether you believe in the science that was part of that. >> so, when we look and spend a lot of time on this, first off you start. there's a ton of studies that were done in the '80s. but more recently, the fish and wildlife service completed a comprehensive conservation plan framework in 2015, which really, i think, had over 2500 pages of documents. 57 pages of literature citations. and thaen 2018, i asked th

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it did not have a director of the fish and wildlife service, it did not have a director of b.l.m. it did not have a direct or director director, why? because the democrats don't want this president to succeed even if success hurts this country. they are willing to make sure the forests burn down, they are willing to pollute our oceans, they are willing to do anything for power. i once thought that you know what? we could work with people that -- red white and blue but d.c. has become so caustic and one lane that it is going to take a republican wave to fix it. and that wave, again, begins here in dallas. (applause) >> so building off of that and what happens in dallas, you and i, mr. pruitt, had a great discussion about your challenges, and you seem to think, and i might agree, the media could be as big a challenge as the deep states for someone who is trying to clean up washington. you had a modest proposal for maybe what conservatives could do to try to take on that challenge. can you share that? >> i think what jky -- jackie's referring to is that most of you probably didn't kn

the staff is the director of the fish and wildlife, director of park service. when i left after two years in, the department of interior did not have a director of the park service. did not have a director of the fish and wildlife service. they did not have a director of blm. why? because the democrats don't want this president to succeed even if success hurts this country. they are willing to make sure the forests burned down, they are willing to pollute our oceans, they are willing to do anything for power. i once thought, you know what, we can work with people, aren't we red white and blue? but d.c. has become so toxic, so one lane, that it is going to take a republican wave to fix it. and that wave, again, begins here in dallas. [applause] jacki: building off of that, and what happens in dallas, you and i, mr. pruitt, had a great discussion about your challenges. using to think, and i would agree, the media could be as big a challenge as the deep state for someone who is trying to clean up washington. you had a modest proposal for what maybe conservatives c

that's what rangers from kenya's wildlife service had to deal with at lake kapnarok.ess calls also brought dozens of locals to the scene. they were finally freed when they were pulled from the wallow by ropes. that is it for now. thank you so much for hello there, good morning. at the moment, it feels like winter has made a comeback. we've had everything thrown at us in the last 24 hours. lots of weather watcher pictures of big hailstorms affecting the uk, and of course, the sunshine coming out in between has led to some lovely rainbow pictures as well. we're seeing a short, sharp burst of really cold air that's come down from the arctic. you can see how that colder air has plunged southwards, and with it all those shower clouds. the cloud that's in the north sea is coming back into scotland and northern england, which is why we're seeing some sleet and snow, and it's quite slippery over some high—level routes. some icy patches around, with temperatures in many places close to orjust below freezing. so a cold start really, i think, to wednesday, and a pretty miserable

fish and wildlife service conducted its annual christmas tree drop in which they however copter dropped nearly eight thousand used christmas trees into by you savage marshes the trees will act as natural breakwaters that will slow down wave and wave and water movement they trap silt and encourage the growth of marsh gases why is this so important well for one the wetlands act as protection from floods that threaten cities like norman's during storms by functioning as natural sponges they create new marsh habitats by building structure. respect and support native marsh crashes it traps and wild settlements creates more land and a more stable environment for animals and it even serves as valuable training as you can see for the louisiana army national guard harris of the new orleans office of resilience and stability sustainability are using somewhat over holiday cheer to buy savage the second largest urban wildlife refuge in the u.s. all right that is or how to be a show for you to barely remember everyone who moves were told that we love them enough so i tell you all i love i am tired r

steve robinson, the deputy director of the fish and wildlife service. i'll ask them to come forward. >> mr. evans, mr. robinson, we do appreciate your indulgence, and we apologize, but you can see we've tried to move along as quickly as possible. your statements both will be included in the record in the entirety, and you can highlight it or give them. you've been indulgent with the committee, and we'll be indulgent with you. you can give the statement in full or highlight it. dr. evans? >> thank you, mr. chairman. because of the seriousness of what we're discussing here, i have brought dr. erler, who is the head of our group that deals with hazardous material, and his team is the team that has been working up on this oil spill from about 11 hours after it actually happened. i also have leg counsel with me, mr. campbell, who is here in case -- since i am not a lawyer, and there were a lot of people that were saying they were lawyers and using that as an excuse. i am not a lawyer, so i brought one with me. >> i can see you're very proud of that. >> what

bureau of land management, national parks, national forest service, fish and wildlife service. certainly a lot of activity and engagement between public and stakeholders, agencies with the federal government. but, your question about why are they mostly--? it's interesting to think about how public lands came to be. you have to go back to the founding of the us and even to 1781 when you think about the original colony. some of them claim to use title to or health claims to territory west of their colonial boundaries. we had the first public land from the colony of new york essentially turned over all of its claims from the emerging federal government. 20 years later you would have had all the original colonies do the same. anything westward was owned at that time by the federal government and it's worth pointing out the way in which we got most of this land and other means, the native americans who were here to begin with. i want to make sure we understand when we talk about public land, really were those came from, we've got land purchases. when you start moving west in our hi

part of that is due to wildlife service. a lot of people that are involved. it's hard tore track those and something very interesting in terms of the smoke and the exposure and the long term, we just have some problems and so that's why our current research approach has actually been to focus more back on basically -- what's different about the smoke, what's different about the exposures, we see that there's significant exposure for a short amount of time. they try to mitigate the smoke exposure, they try not to put personnel but in large events it's inevitable going to happen even at base camp, command center, stuck in the smoke because that may be the safest area for other reasons. in terms of that, i think we are focused, we are doing things like mice models, other researchers that are trying say, where are the worst fire hazards that affect human health, what happens about the fire that does that and then can we make changes, does it involve operational changes. but i think there's a lot of ep epdemia, studies that can be done. on our end we are trying to

fish and wildlife service took the first step toward protecting giraffes under the endangered speciesre no wild giraffes in the country. the move is expected to sharply curtail the international trade in giraffe bones, skins and trophies. >>> this morning, we are continuing our partnership with ted to highlight individuals and ideas shaping our world. in our series ideas that matter, university of british columbia professor elizabeth dunn made headlines when she co-authored the paper spending money on others promotes happiness more than a decade ago. in her new ted talk posting this morning, dunn says simply donating to charity is not enough to feel these benefits. >> betting money, helping others doesn't necessarily promote happiness. instead, it matters how we do it. and if we want people to give more, we need to subvert the way we think about charitable giving. >> elizabeth dunn is here now. i can't wait to get to this idea. how should we give? >> well, what we see in our work is that you're likely to get the biggest emotional boost from giving to others if you can do so in a way w

wildlife. >> the one thing i can tell you, the rk service is very committed. we've been here a long time with our partners and we'll give it our best effort. >> the problem is manmade. this is a berm that was created in the 1960s that changed the flow of the it stopped the cove from getting enough water. the park service has already been forced to dredge the cove twice in the past 30 years. >> i was just down there. it is a true challenge. a> now to local special olympics team in the spotlight this week. the basketball program at kenwood middle school in arlington was recentl o named of the top five schools in the entire country. ws 4 aimee cho was there today as the team was recognized. >> thid is the kin of excitement you'd expect at any all-star game. the crowds, the clapping, even the cdboard cutouts. but as this basketball team at ke kenmordle school enjoys star status, they're not scoring points. they're leveling the playing field for students with ecial needs. >> thank you special olympics for giving us the opportunity to play basketball. i am proud of

services. san francisco bay keeper hopes lessons are learned. the department of fish and wildlifethey collected 63 steelhead trout which are endangered. >>> this is a thriving creek that a lot of people spent a lot of time restoring the past 10 years.>> it is sad to see the impact it had on the creek. that is nothing we would want either. >>> at the same time you had a truck with flames coming out and a ton of smoke in the middle of the residential area. i thought the truck might explode. what do you do with that? >>> coming up a fire this morning to place more than 100 people from the apartment building in the north bay. >>> coming up details about the people rescued by firefighters off of balconies. >>> preserving silicon valley for generations to come. details about the push to preserve thousands of acres that have been tried by developers. >>> police say a deadly christmas day shooting was justified. the new body camera video the department released today. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhan

for wildlife and improve those peat soils, and we estimate around £200,000 of restoration has gone up in smoke. what will be happening for the rest of the day? we will be working with the fire service use the helicopter to put the fire out. but there is no doubt we are going to be with this fire for the next couple of days to ensure there are no flare—ups. 300 hectares of land is an awful lot for the fire service to tackle, to get on top of, so this command centre is going to be here for the next few days at least. that was sally hurst in west yorkshire. in northern ireland hundreds of holiday—makers in county down spent the night in emergency accommodation after a large hillside fire forced them from their caravan park. the wildfire happened in the mourne mountains above the seaside town of newcastle. they're now under control. chris page reports. 0n the mountainside, a fire a mile long threatened some houses as it burned through the gorse. eyewitnesses described it as a running wildfire. 50 fire fighters worked to bring the blaze under control. the flames came close to a caravan park. police went from one mobile home to another, telling people to get out quickly. buses took aroun

funding despite the park service is management policies that have made it clear the predominant mandate is to conserve the sceneries and the natural historical objects in the wildlife within the parks and future generations. the deputy director smith just yesterday who appeared before the committee to deliver the department's position on public landfills. you stated that the agency doesn't support enacting those pieces of legislation because your priority is our about focusing resources on reducing the national park service's $11.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog and addressing other critical national park needs. the budget proposal is not in-line with your own agency priority is as it was significantly reduced funding for the park maintenance and repair and would reduce money available for construction. i hope the park service will testify before the committee based on the conservation and not hide behind the backlog as an excuse to leave resources and protected. on the other hand, the proposal cuts out very successful programs. the highly successful historic preservation fund provides resources to partners outside of including the state tribes had historical

service. we'll also deploy our helicopter as well, which picks up water from the reservoirs and deploys that onto the various flame heads. just explain to people how important this area is for local wildlifean recognised for ground nesting birds and the important blanket bog habitat, which is essentially a peat landscape. it's also a great place for people as well. loads of people visit the landscape, whether it's to walk or run or cycle. you know, we have birds here nesting at the moment. it's that important time of year. they are going to be devastated by this. yes, definitely. birds such as curlew, short—eared owl, definitely looking to nest. it's highly possible there are eggs on the ground that have been burnt, effectively. but it's notjust birds, it's small mammals as well. larger mammals such as mountain hares have certainly been impacted. i was watching this earlier and the flames move at such a speed, it's frightening. there's no doubt small mammals and hares would not have avoided being killed. a lot of money, a lot of investment has gone into this area as well. and it's not, as we mentioned earlier, this is not the first fire you have had here at marsden, so how does this make

service. we'll also deploy our helicopter as well, which picks up water from the reservoirs and deploys that onto the various flame heads. just explain to people how important this area is for local wildlifedesignation. it's also european recognised for ground nesting birds and the important blanket bog habitat, which is essentially a peat landscape. it's also a great place for people as well. loads of people visit the landscape, whether it's to walk or run or cycle. you know, we have birds here nesting at the moment. it's that important time of year. they are going to be devastated by this. yes, definitely. birds such as curlew, short—eared owl, definitely looking to nest. it's highly possible there are eggs on the ground that have been burnt, effectively. but it's notjust birds, it's small mammals as well. larger mammals such as hares have certainly been impacted. i was watching this earlier and the flames move at such a speed, it's frightening. there's no doubt that small mammals and hares would not have avoided being killed. a lot of money, a lot of investment has gone into this area as well, and it's not, as we mentioned earlier, this is not the first fire you have had here at marsde

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the national park service is 2006 management policies that have made it clear that the mps is the dominant mandate to serve the scenery and thenatural and historic objects in the wildlife . and preserve the parts for future generations. deputy director smith, just yesterday you appear before the subcommittee to deliver the department's decision on for public land bills. you stated the agency does not support and acting those pieces of legislation because your priorities are about focusing resources on reducing the national parks service $11.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog and addressing other critical parts needs. the budget proposal is not in line with your own agency priorities as it would significantly reduce on the four park maintenance and repair and would reduce money available for construction so i hope that the parks service will testify before this committee based on their conservation mandate and not hide behind a deferred maintenance backlog as an excuse to leave resources unprotected. on the other hand the mps proposal puts out very successful programs. highly successful historic preservation funds provide resources to partnersoutside the mcs includi

first, cesar petitioned the fish and wildlife service to designate the american eel, a species whose habitat spans the entire east coast of the united states, as a threatened or endangered species. these agencies are required to complete their review of such a petition within 90 days. both agencies were unable to complete their review on such a short time line and cesar filed a lawsuit in d.c. district court. cesar did not undertake this campaign with the objective of protecting an endangered or protected species. instead, as a report made clear, cesar attempted to undermine the law by making it merely impossible to enforce. why was this the case? because the american eel has habitats all along the eastern seaboard and to make a listing and conduct critical habitat designations would be a paralyzing undertaking that might force congress to undergo a rewrite of the e.s.a. mr. bernhardt did not just represent cesar, but he has also served on their afford many years. -- on their board for many years. it was reasonable to conclude, therefore, that his sustained personal advocacy on behal

maternity services under scrutiny at a health board in wales following concerns over the death of a number of babies. death threats for wildlifecaster chris packham — the latest hate mail sent to him in a row over bird shooting. it is designed to elicit as much fear as possible, they are unspecific about where and when, they are principally saying, you will never be safe, you will never be able to go out, we will always be there. and bowing out — the first japanese monarch to abdicate in more than two centuries, emperor akihito has stepped down from his throne. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. we have breaking news that one of the uk's biggest health care providers is set to go into administration. it later today. a two of the holding companies that own the group have been struggling with a heavy debt load and intend to appoint administrators four seasons has got 250 care homes across the uk caring for more than 30,000 people and sources at the company are saying residents and patients will not be affected by the administration while it seeks a buyer. the part of the company that i’u ns buyer. the part of the compan