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Shipley News
Making Sound Decisions and NEPA
By Larry Freeman, PhD.
Sound
governmental decisions must rely on credible information. Otherwise, a
decision is likely unwise and may be legally challenged as arbitrary and
capricious.
Credible information is the key to good National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) decisions. But all sorts of other
governmental decisions confront the problem of having information that
is credible, from a reliable source ...more
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
News from across the Agencies
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 USDA Announces Actions to Conserve Roadless Areas
On July 12, U. S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Ann M.
Veneman announced the Bush Administration's rule to conserve
roadless areas in national forests.
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to view
 Testimony of Jim Hughes, Deputy Director Bureau of Land Management before Senate subcommittee: Oversight of grazing on public lands - June 23, 2004" (BLM national office news release, 06/25/2004)
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 National Fire News – Wildfire
Update
“Improving health of the land and reducing risks to communities requires partnerships among federal and state agencies, tribal governments, fire departments, communities, and landowners. Fire burns where conditions are right. It does not acknowledge jurisdictional boundaries of federal, state, and local agencies; tribes; or private landowners.“
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DOCUMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
WRITERS
Five Quality Questions
- Why is 100 percent clarity an important documentation
goal?
- How is a team-written document different from the traditional one-author
document?
- Why is document design an increasingly important step in environmental
analysis?
- How should writers choose and cite information so that it is both clear and legally
defensible?
- Why are carefully constructed and correctly written sentences essential for the clarity and credibility of the overall
document?
 Answers to these 5 questions can be found in the new book, “Document Strategies for Environmental Writers, Entries reprinted from the Franklin Covey Style Guide”
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