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...
May 16, 2017 | Wildlife
Protecting Carnivores From Wildlife Services in Colorado WELC, along with partners WildEarth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity are challenging a controversial, experimental U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services plan to kill wild carnivores...
Nov 3, 2016 | Wildlife
Protecting Critical Habitat for Threatened Bull Trout on the Payette The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 9,671 stream miles and 197,915 acres of lakes and reservoirs in Idaho as critical to bull trout conservation—many of which are found on national...
Sep 29, 2016 | Wildlife
Protecting Lynx Habitat in Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a timber sale on the Conejos Peak Ranger District of the Rio Grande National Forest. Quizzically, the Forest Service will not publicly identify specific areas...
Sep 29, 2016 | Wildlife
VICTORY! Protecting Canada Lynx in Washington State For more than 15 years, the Canada lynx has been listed as a threatened species under the Washington state equivalent of the Endangered Species Act. After the state population of these rare cats fell to an estimated...
Sep 29, 2016 | Wildlands
Colorado Forest Planning We’re participating in forest planning processes in western Colorado, including the Rio Grande National Forest and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests. These forests include very important habitat and...
Apr 21, 2016 | Wildlife
Protecting Grizzly Bears Faced with shrinking habitat, the loss of critical food sources, and the impacts of climate change, grizzly bears are struggling to survive. Indeed, only 1,700-1,800 grizzlies remain in the lower 48 states, about 700 of which call the Greater...
Jan 30, 2016 | Wildlife
Stopping Wildlife Services from Killing Wolves in Oregon Wildlife Services is a stand-alone federal extermination program under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that kills roughly 4 million animals per year, including wolves, bears, otters, foxes, coyotes,...
Jan 25, 2016 | Wildlands
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...
Jun 22, 2015 | Wildlife
Protecting Mexican Wolves The Mexican gray wolf is the smallest, rarest, and most genetically distinct subspecies of gray wolf. In 1976, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the Mexican wolf as a protected species under the Endangered Species Act. In 1978,...
