Grizzly deaths spur bear baiting challenge in Idaho, Wyoming
Today, wildlife advocates challenged in federal court a U.S. Forest Service policy granting states authority to allow black bear baiting in national forests, despite knowing that such practices have resulted in the deaths of threatened grizzly bears. Hunters have...
Bernhardt’s promise to protect Chaco park highlights need for comprehensive land management planning
Environmental and Indigenous groups a part of the Greater Chaco Coalition are thanking Senator Martin Heinrich for facilitating Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s visit to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Tuesday, but are concerned that...
Another win for the climate: Judge orders feds to disclose climate impacts of public lands fracking in Colorado and Utah
In the wake of a legal victory by WildEarth Guardians, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Western Environmental Law Center, the U.S. government asked for and a federal judge ordered a climate review of the impacts of public lands fracking in Colorado and...
Crazy Mountains Photos
Crazy Mountains maps/trail photos 1925 National Forest Map showing numbered trails (in white) at focus of court case. Absaroka National Forest was later rolled into the Gallatin-Custer National Forest. Click for larger image. Original here. (Above Photo: Forest...
Reps. DeGette, Lujan, Haaland introduce gold-standard methane legislation
Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced the Methane Waste and Prevention Act of 2019, a bill that would enact common-sense and cost-effective solutions to reduce methane waste and pollution from oil and gas operations on public lands, protect taxpayers,...
Analysis: Public overwhelmingly wants EPA ban on wildlife-killing ‘cyanide bombs’
More than 99.9 percent of people commenting on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reauthorize sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s support a ban on these “cyanide bombs,” according to an analysis released today. Cyanide bombs...
Greater Chaco region wins reprieve from fracking
A federal appeals court today held that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally approved oil and gas drilling and fracking in the Greater Chaco region of New Mexico, a landscape sacred to Tribes throughout the American Southwest and...
Oregon agency says “NO” to Jordan Cove LNG project
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today delivered a potentially fatal blow to the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline which has faced fierce opposition for more than a decade by a grassroots coalition of impacted...
Greater Chaco: Applause for new State Land Office planning process
Underscoring the need for urgent landscape protection, on Saturday April 27, members of the State Land Office Chaco Working Group including representatives of the Tri-Chapters of the Navajo Nation and All Pueblo Council of Governors gathered at Counselor Chapter House...
Groups applaud strengthened bill to protect Greater Chaco
Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and New Mexico Congressman Ben Ray Lujan and Congresswoman Deb Haaland for re-introducing the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 in the U.S....
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