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Court rules federal program that kills grizzly bears and other wildlife in Montana violated the law
On Friday, a federal district court in Missoula ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s wildlife-killing program Wildlife Services failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act before killing or removing grizzly bears in Montana. Management...
Statement on Trump election: The West’s lands, waters, and life are resilient. So are we. We are in this together—again.
This morning, we are reminded of Terry Tempest Williams’ haunting declaration: “Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.” In the coming months, we will need—more than ever—to create that beauty. For we now find ourselves, once again,...
Missed opportunity for climate in oil and gas plan for Colorado River Valley, Grand Junction field offices
Today, the Bureau of Land Management finalized its resource management plan/final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction field offices, which will determine how 2 million acres of land in western Colorado is...
Conservationists seek to defend basic federal oil and gas fiscal reforms from industry complaint
Today, a coalition of conservation groups filed a formal request to intervene in an industry lawsuit in order to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas leasing rule finalized in April. The rule contains decades-overdue fiscal reforms, including changes to...
Third legal intervention filed to defend federal public lands conservation rule from lawsuits
Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a third federal lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage 245 million acres for conservation. The...
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