We complemented our survey with a systemic review of field studies for the ant species found in Palouse Prairie. To fill this gap, we employed a rapid inventory sampling approach using pitfall traps to capture peak ant activity in five habitat fragments. Ants ( Formicidae) are useful indicators of biodiversity and historical ecological disturbance, but there has been no structured sampling of ants in the Palouse Prairie. The Palouse Prairie is one such endangered grassland a mid-elevation habitat found in Washington and Idaho, United States. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Grasslands are globally imperilled ecosystems due to widespread conversion to agriculture and there is a concerted effort to catalogue arthropod diversity in grasslands to guide conservation decisions. Trump tweets that Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler will assume the acting administrator position Monday.Ĭopyright © The Associated Press.
Trump writes on Twitter, "Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job."Īctivists have argued those cuts have endangered the environment. He had denied wrongdoing in the face of multiple congressional and oversight inquiries.ĭespite the scandals, Trump has been approving of Pruitt's efforts to reduce regulations that the administration says curb business growth. Pruitt has faced an array of ethical questions about his travel spending, security costs, dealings with industry lobbyists and misuse of government resources. Pruitt had become a constant source of embarrassment to a president who had entered Washington promising to "Drain the Swamp." President Donald Trump says he has accepted the resignation of scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. He will be replaced by acting administrator Andrew Wheeler. Trump tweeted earlier Thursday that Pruitt had resigned. Trump said they had been talking about Pruitt's exit for a "little while," adding "He'll go and do great things." Trump says: "He came to me and said I have such great confidence in the administration I don't want to be a distraction."
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Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday en route to Montana that Pruitt "did an outstanding job." Pruitt's management of the agency has prompted a series of investigations. President Donald Trump says Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt resigned on his own accord and there was 'no final straw." He says the "unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us." In his resignation letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Pruitt is expressing no regrets. President Donald Trump is continuing to praise Pruitt, saying there was "no final straw" and he had not asked for Pruitt's resignation. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt (all times local):Įnvironmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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