About WildEarth Guardians – who we are and what we do
About Us
WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.
Driven by passion, we’ve tackled some of the West’s most difficult and pressing conservation challenges over the past three decades. We’ve celebrated small victories (banning leghold trapping in the state of Colorado), monumental triumphs (ending logging on more than 21 million acres in the Southwest), and everything in-between.
We’re proof that a group of committed, visionary, idealistic, and passionate caretakers of the wild can take on the most daunting adversaries—and win.
Areas of Work
Our four programs bring people, science, and the law together in defense of the American West.
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Recent Stories

The doctor is in
Samantha Ruscavage-Barz lays down the law for the Wild as WildEarth Guardians legal director

Big court win opens door to keep coal in the ground
Court orders new look at coal mining, oil and gas drilling on public lands in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming

The doctor is in
Samantha Ruscavage-Barz lays down the law for the Wild as WildEarth Guardians legal director

The doctor is in
Samantha Ruscavage-Barz lays down the law for the Wild as WildEarth Guardians legal director
WildEarth Guardians Press
Climate bill headed to President Biden sacrifices public lands while locking out Indigenous and Frontline communities
Congress allowed the good in Inflation Reduction Act to be watered-down by provisions that fund polluters and expand fossil fuel leasing on public lands
Read more >Montana’s wolf population struggling despite Montana FWP claims
The gray wolf roamed Montana for thousands of years, balancing ecosystems in the wild places that many of us cherish today.
Read more >Judge: Lower Green Peter to Help Fish
Green Peter Reservoir will be lowered to historic levels this fall and early winter, during which period its dam generators will cease to produce electric power, in an effort to preserve young Chinook salmon and steelhead, a federal judge has ordered.
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