In the morass of anti-environmental, anti-wilderness, anti-clean air and anti-clean water initiatives that have defiled the appropriations process for funding the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agencies and others that protect our planet, it’s nice to see that some members of Congress are still interested in preserving America’s natural resources.
Read MoreHouse champs stand up to “Great Outdoors Giveaway”
Nearly 60 million acres of protected public lands were put on the chopping block yesterday, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s “Great Outdoors Giveaway” Act, HR 1581, received a hearing in the Public Lands Subcommittee.
Read MoreUrgent: Help stop this week’s double assault on wilderness!
Please take a moment to email or call your Representative and tell him/her to stop the Great Outdoors Giveaway! Use our online action center to send an email message or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your representative's office.
Read MoreWill your Rep. stand up for 60 million acres of wilderness?
Next Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands will hold a hearing on the “Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act” – a bill that would remove protections from 60 million acres of roadless lands across the country, including 1.3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management...
Read MoreStop Vegetation Devastation
In its relentless war against Utah’s native pinyon and juniper forests, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has recently set its sights on the proposed Goslin Mountain wilderness located just south of the Wyoming border in eastern Utah. Unfortunately for these trees, the agency violated its own commitments in a...
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