Protecting the Kaibab National Forest from Cross-Country Motorized Travel The Kaibab National Forest contains three geographically distinct ranger districts, all with extensive road systems. One ranger district sits on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, one ranger...
Restoring the Similkameen River by removing Enloe Dam Until 2019, the Okanagon Public Utility District planned to re-energize north-central Washington’s dormant Enloe Dam, a 54-foot concrete wall blocking hundreds of miles of upstream salmon and steelhead...
On behalf of a diverse national coalition, including conservation, commercial fishing and private property owners, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) and Sierra Club submitted comments today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) opposing what...
2014-8-5.SalmonSalvageAgreementLtr.Sexton.pdfThe Salmon River is one of the most remote and beautiful areas in the northern California/southern Oregon’s Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. The 751-mile watershed lies entirely within the Klamath National Forest.Nearly...
Saving Puget Sound The delicate Sound The Washington Department of Ecology has conducted decades of studies on the serious effects of nutrient and toxic pollution on Puget Sound, revealing a broad variety of water quality problems affecting the Sound, its marine life,...
VICTORY! Montana Exempt Well Loophole Rural homeowners, ranchers, and farmers in Montana and other western states have long relied on a provision of the law that affords them the opportunity to drill a small well without first obtaining a permit. It’s an approach that...
Protecting Washington’s waters from toxic coal train pollution It sounds impossible, but coal trains still operate in modern times without tops, spilling an average of 500 pounds of coal per rail car per train trip. With 120 or more cars per train, that adds up to 30...
VICTORY! Protecting Sonoran Desert National Monument from Irresponsible Shooting The Sonoran Desert National Monument in southwest Arizona is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the North American desert. The area is home to large saguaro cactus forest...
VICTORY! Santa Fe National Forest OHV Lawsuit Intervention The Santa Fe National Forest comprises approximately 1.6 million acres in northern New Mexico. The forest contains four wilderness areas, covering nearly 300,000 acres, as well as two “wild and scenic”...
Smith River OHV Plan Challenge Northern California’s Smith River National Recreation Area is a wild place with rare attributes that provide habitat for wild salmon, steelhead and some of the last healthy vestiges of Port Orford Cedar, an endangered species that grows...
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