Win for wildlife and quiet use on Santa Fe National Forest

Jul 26, 2017 | News Release, VICTORY! Santa Fe National Forest ORV Lawsuit Intervention

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds U.S. Forest Service decision to protect 400,000 acres from ATVs Santa Fe, NM—On Monday, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the second lawsuit by an off-road vehicle advocacy organization challenging the U.S. Forest...

Groups Challenge Plan Increasing Off-Highway Vehicle Use in Old-Growth Areas of Ochoco National Forest

Jun 28, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest From OHVs

Extensive new motorized trail system threatens wildlife, upsets use balance Today the U.S. Forest Service issued a final decision green-lighting an extensive motorized trail system that would add 137 miles of new off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails to the existing...

Protecting Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest From OHVs

Jun 27, 2017 | Wildlands

Protecting Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest From OHVs The U.S. Forest Service issued a final decision green-lighting an extensive motorized trail system that would add 137 miles of new off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails to the existing network of 674 miles within...

Defending the Wild and Scenic Rogue River

Jun 19, 2017 | Wildlands

Victory! Defending the Wild and Scenic Rogue River In 2016 the Bureau of Land Management recognized that the middle section of the Rogue River in Oregon—sandwiched between protected segments downstream from Crater Lake National Park, and upstream of the famed Blossom...

All Wildlands Cases

Mar 30, 2017 | Wildlands

All Wildlands Cases Protecting Public Lands Protecting Public Access to Montana’s Crazy Mountains Forest Collaborative: Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Erasing Pendley’s Anti-Public Lands Legacy on 6.25 Million Acres Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific...

Defending Science-Based Forest Management in Oregon

Mar 25, 2017 | Wildlands

Defending Science-Based Forest Management in Oregon The Western Oregon Plan Revisions, known by the acronym WOPR and pronounced “whopper,” has been controversial since 2003, when the second Bush administration settled a long dormant timber industry lawsuit with the...

Coalition Defends Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Feb 27, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest

Late last Friday, local and partner conservation groups intervened in two lawsuits to protect the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument from challenges brought by timber interests. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is one of the most biodiverse places in North...

Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion

Feb 27, 2017 | Wildlands

Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion President Clinton designated the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in 2000. It is the first and only national monument specifically established to protect biological diversity. But ecologists agreed after the...

Environmental groups challenge Ecology’s new permits for industrial dairies

Feb 21, 2017 | News Release, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign

Location: Seattle On Feb. 17, 2017, a coalition of environmental groups filed an appeal with the Washington state Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) challenging the Department of Ecology’s waste discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations...

Ecology’s CAFO Water Quality Permit Sacrifices Public Health, Drinking Water, Shellfish Beds

Jan 19, 2017 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign

Location: Seattle Today, a coalition environmental, public health, social justice and public interest advocates and organizations representing tens of thousands of Washingtonians responded to the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a revised...