Urge President Biden to keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground

To immediately make progress on climate action, President Joe Biden had pledged to ban new oil and gas leasing on America’s federal public lands and waters. Unfortunately, President Biden has broken that promise. Send a message today and ask the President to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

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WildEarth Guardians can only build power and cultivate change with your help. Speak up today for wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and a safe climate we can all cherish.

Urge the Biden administration to protect Joshua trees

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We must restore clean water protections now!

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Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to keep Canada lynx protected

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Demand immediate action for wolves by the Biden administration

Incredibly, the Biden administration has just announced its intention to defend the Trump administration’s unscientific and politically-motivated removal of federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states. President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland must take immediate action to restore ESA protections to all gray wolves in the lower 48 states.

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(NV Only) Tell the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners to ban wildlife killing contests

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President Biden must restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante

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Speak up to restore Endangered Species Act protections to wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains

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Tell the Bureau of Land Management to stop a new highway through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area

In the last days of the Trump administration, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) signed off on a proposal from the Utah Department of Transportation to build a new four-lane highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in southwest Utah, a stronghold for the Mojave Desert tortoise. Please speak out and urge the Bureau of Land Management to revoke their approval of the Northern Corridor Highway.

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Defend grizzlies, wolves, bighorns, and other vulnerable wildlife in the Centennial Mountains

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Stand up for forests, oppose the Trillion Stumps Act

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Save Oak Flat from a massive copper mine

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Urge Congress to take action to achieve 30 x 30 goals

President Biden has signed an Executive Order directing the Interior Department to outline steps to achieve the president’s commitment to conserve at least 30% of America’s lands and waters by the year 2030. WildEarth Guardians believes that 30 x 30’s bold vision highlights the need to protect large, unprotected landscapes across the American West, including the great public wildlands of the Greater Gila of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.

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Tell Congress to pass the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act

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Urge Congress to boost funding for endangered species conservation

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Take action: Sonoran desert tortoise move slow, but are racing toward extinction

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Raise your voice to help #StopExtinction

The Endangered Species Act has prevented more than 99% of species protected by the Act from going extinct over the past four decades. Unfortunately, the Trump administration weakened and gutted many aspects of the Act that have made it so successful in protecting imperiled wildlife and plants from extinction. Urge President Biden to take immediate steps to restore and strengthen the Endangered Species Act.

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Ask Congress to fund the Legacy Roads and Trails Program

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Stop the oil and gas industry's stranglehold on New Mexico

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Tell your members of Congress to protect a living Rio Grande

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Make Public Lands Cruelty-free

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Ask the U.S. Senate to fund "Nonlethal Livestock Protection" to reform Wildlife Services' killing program

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Tell President Biden to halt coal leasing and permitting on public lands

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Shut down Suncor's oil refinery injustice

Colorado regulators want to approve a new permit that would allow Suncor Energy to keep polluting at its oil refinery north of Denver, even as the company chronically violates clean air laws meant to protect people and communities. It’s time to put an end to this climate and environmental injustice. Sign the petition to ensure Colorado regulators do the right and legal thing by denying Suncor’s air pollution permit.

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Thank the New Mexico decision-makers who supported Roxy's Law

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Don't Let the Oil and Gas Industry Dump its Toxic Waste in New Mexico

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Speak Up for Wolves on National Forests

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Urge President Biden to undo the damage inflicted on America's bedrock environmental law

Over the past four years, America’s bedrock environmental law—the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—was under constant attack by the Trump administration. Fortunately, we have a chance to fight back against this brazen assault by urging the Biden administration to reverse all NEPA rollbacks and greatly strengthen our nation’s basic charter for environmental protection.

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Urge the Biden administration to restore Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves

Gray wolves lost federal Endangered Species Act protections on January 4, 2021. We can’t abandon fragile wolf-recovery efforts and allow anti-wolf states, hunters, and trappers to push these iconic species back to the brink of extinction. Sign this petition and urge the Biden administration to begin the process of restoring Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves.

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Urge President Biden to repair the damage to clean water and living rivers

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End the Taxpayer Funded War on Wildlife

For far too long the federal government has used our hard-earned tax dollars to slaughter native wildlife on public lands. Tell your representative and senators this all-out war on wildlife and public safety must stop today.

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Ask your senators and representative to help salmon and steelhead in the Northwest

Chinook salmon and steelhead are at the essence of the Pacific Northwest. Despite being listed as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act 22 years ago, less than 2% of these historic fish in Oregon’s Willamette River remain. We are asking Congress to use their power to direct funding to recovery actions that truly save salmon and a living river. Send your personalized letter to Congress today.

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Support a nationwide ban on wildlife killing contests

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Colorado Needs to Get Back on Track for Climate Action and Climate Justice

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Hold public lands law-breakers and scofflaws accountable

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Ask President Biden to rein in and reform Wildlife Services

WildEarth Guardians, with you at our side, has worked tirelessly to reform the cruel culture of killing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program. The Biden administration represents another big opportunity to rein in and reform Wildlife Services. Sign this petition urging President Joe Biden to take action.

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Tell Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: No Dumping Frack Water in New Mexico

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Danielle Plourde

Data Management Administrator

Danielle joined Guardians in the summer of 2021. As part of the Guardians Resource Team, her role is largely focused on background support to keep the small and mighty engine that is WildEarth Guardians running smoothly. Danielle is no stranger to supportive roles, when she is not at Guardians she is supporting families during the wonderful, potent and awesome transition that is pregnancy, birth and postpartum. She has supported many families in New Mexico as a Doula. She also runs a small herbal company that focuses primarily on this transition. Danielle has a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies and sees her role as a birthworker and a Guardian deeply intertwined and interdependent in the realms of public health and environmentalism.

Nicholas Bascom

Wildlife Program Intern

Nick is a 3rd year law student at UCLA serving as a summer intern with WildEarth Guardians in the Wildlife Program. For Guardians, he concentrates mostly on protecting imperiled species via the Endangered Species Act. At UCLA, his focus is on environmental law and tribal legal development. Before law school, he taught for many years and wrote for Science News and Research Penn State. His first novel, Mordor, California, will be published in the fall. He lives with his wife Camrynn, his son Kyber, and his dogs K.C. and London.

Javier Gallegos

Photography Intern

Javier is the Summer 2021 photography intern for WildEarth Guardians. His work focuses on photographing the Rio Grande and its impact on ecology and human life. He became concerned with the drying of the river from his experience of growing up in El Paso, Texas, without water in the Rio Grande. Only in pictures of other parts of the country did he know what a river was supposed to be like. He is currently a senior at New Mexico State University with plans to graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Professional Communication and a minor in History in the spring of 2022. Javier enjoys watching stand up comedy and video games in his free time.

Siera Schroeder

Intern

Siera is a rising 3L at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Growing up in upstate New York she fell in love with the outdoors but it wasn’t until she moved to Denver, Colorado that she realized how deep her passion and love for the outdoors – especially trees and water – actually ran. She now takes every opportunity she can to row or raft down a river, or go and see some trees! One may even say she’s become a real tree hugger. Siera hopes to translate her love and passion for the outdoors and all its wonders into a successful legal career advocating for the protection of the natural environment so it might be preserved for future generations to love and enjoy.

Rachel Pemberton

Intern

Rachel is a rising 3L at Lewis & Clark Law School focusing on environmental and natural resources law. Combining her interests in the natural and social sciences, she received her Bachelor's degree in environmental studies from the University of Washington in 2018. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest exploring parks and forests has made her passionate about protecting public lands, wildlife, and clean air and water for present and future generations.

Reza Sadeghzadeh

Wild Rivers Program Intern

Reza is a rising 3-year law student at University of Oregon School of Law. He received his B.A. from Humboldt State University, where he quickly fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. As an intern for the Wild Rivers Program, Reza’s work is focused on protecting the western yellow-billed cuckoo and the Upper Willamette Chinook salmon and Winter Steelhead. In his free time, Reza is usually doing some outdoor activity like backpacking, cycling, or diving.

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Simon Miller

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Simon Miller is a 2021 summer intern for WildEarth Guardians. He is a rising Junior at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Simon is a Political Science major that has a passion for examining, improving, and defending the laws and regulations that make our world a better place for people and wildlife. Simon grew up and still lives in Oak Park, the first suburb west of the Chicago city limits.

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[email protected] 303-501-5815

Andrew Rothman

Wild Places Program Director

A native of Wisconsin, Andrew’s interest in wildlife started in his youth, thanks to his many trips to their family cabin in the Northwoods. Growing up in the 80’s, Andrew’s interests in native wildlife expanded to that of the rainforests of Latin America that he learned were rapidly being destroyed. A lifelong aspiration to help protect wildlife and their habitat ensued. Andrew’s professional career has led him toward fulfilling those aspirations. Andrew helped thousands of people increase their connection to nature as the Assistant Naturalist at the renowned Horicon Marsh with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Andrew founded his own non-profit organization, Rainforest Biodiversity Group, to help protect and restore habitat for the endangered Great Green Macaw in Costa Rica; helping private landowners establish private reserves and creating Latin America’s first Birding Trail along the way. Andrew spent over a decade working with American Bird Conservancy managing a portfolio of projects in nearly a dozen countries in Latin America leading to the protection and restoration of thousands of acres of grassland, forest and wetland habitat for migratory and highly endangered endemic birds. Here he also helped establish ABC’s Great Lakes Program, co-authored the Golden-winged Warbler Non-breeding Grounds Conservation Plan, the first plan of its type for a songbird, and helped establish ABC’s Impact Investing Program, which looks to find ways to demonstrate how non-philanthropic capital can be invested for conservation outputs. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, with degrees in Biology and Wildlife Management, Andrew continues to bring innovative solutions to complex conservation problems. Andrew enjoys international travel having visited 28 countries. He also enjoys rock climbing, skiing, yoga, hiking and fine dining. Andrew is the descendant of two WWII concentration camp escapees.

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[email protected] 928-242-3292

Jack Meyer

Greater Gila Arizona Advocate

A local to Arizona's White Mountains, Jack Meyer brings to the Greater Gila campaign a reverence for the wildlife and wild places that shaped him. Jack has worked on social and environmental justice issues throughout his adult life and during his time as an Environmental Studies student at Northern Arizona University. In 2014 he began working with 350.org's fossil fuel divestment movement, and has founded chapters for Our Climate and the Sunrise Movement in Arizona to advocate for science based policy solutions to address climate change. After a year in Tennessee working with Appalachian Voices on their energy democracy campaign Jack is back in the West as WildEarth Guardians Greater Gila Advocate for Arizona. Feel free to send him an email to chat about the work he is doing to protect public lands across the Greater Gila Bioregion.

Zoe Camporaso

Wildlife Program Intern

Zoe is an intern in the Wildlife Program at WildEarth Guardians. She is majoring in Environmental Science at Lewis & Clark College, with a minor in History. She is passionate about soil science and the rights of land. Zoe enjoys vegetable gardening and one of her life goals is to swim in as many bodies of water as possible.

The Official Action Center of WildEarth Guardians

A Voice for the Voiceless

Urge the Biden administration to protect Joshua trees

We must restore clean water protections now!

Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to keep Canada lynx protected

(NV Only) Tell the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners to ban wildlife killing contests

President Biden must restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante

Speak up to restore Endangered Species Act protections to wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Defend grizzlies, wolves, bighorns, and other vulnerable wildlife in the Centennial Mountains

Stand up for forests, oppose the Trillion Stumps Act

Save Oak Flat from a massive copper mine

Tell Congress to pass the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act

Urge Congress to boost funding for endangered species conservation

Take action: Sonoran desert tortoise move slow, but are racing toward extinction

Ask Congress to fund the Legacy Roads and Trails Program

Stop the oil and gas industry's stranglehold on New Mexico

Tell your members of Congress to protect a living Rio Grande

Be A Guardian!

Make Public Lands Cruelty-free

Ask the U.S. Senate to fund "Nonlethal Livestock Protection" to reform Wildlife Services' killing program

Tell President Biden to halt coal leasing and permitting on public lands

Thank the New Mexico decision-makers who supported Roxy's Law

Don't Let the Oil and Gas Industry Dump its Toxic Waste in New Mexico

Speak Up for Wolves on National Forests

Urge President Biden to repair the damage to clean water and living rivers

Support a nationwide ban on wildlife killing contests

Colorado Needs to Get Back on Track for Climate Action and Climate Justice

Hold public lands law-breakers and scofflaws accountable

Tell Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: No Dumping Frack Water in New Mexico

WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.

Contact

Danielle Plourde

Data Management Administrator

Nicholas Bascom

Wildlife Program Intern

Javier Gallegos

Photography Intern

Siera Schroeder

Intern

Rachel Pemberton

Intern

Reza Sadeghzadeh

Wild Rivers Program Intern

Contact

Simon Miller

Intern

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Andrew Rothman

Wild Places Program Director

Contact

Jack Meyer

Greater Gila Arizona Advocate

Zoe Camporaso

Wildlife Program Intern