Current work in wildlife, rivers, public lands, and climate

What I wanted to know," Hutto said, "was what in the world is a burned forest worth? Is there any value at all in all that destruction?
Contact: Michael Jamison The Missoulian

109th Congress - National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act

The USDA is planning to spend at least $1 million in Colorado in the coming year to "manage" over 3,000 coyotes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and foxes and other native carnivores for the benefit of the livestock industry.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

The Strategic Plan should consider the restoration of native riparian species as just as much of a priority as the eradication of the non-native species. Simply treating the non-native species will lead to an ecologically dead zone.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Nearly half of the respondents working under Dale Hall reported being "directed, for non-scientific reasons to refrain from making" findings protective of wildlife.
Contact: Noah Greenwald Center for Biological Diversity

Carson National Forest officials failed to do several key wildlife evaluations in reviewing a pair of grazing allotments in the Questa Ranger District, so forest supervisor Martin Chavez is requiring the reviews be redone..
Contact: Adam Rankin The Albuquerque Journal

WildEarth Guardians won two administrative appeals affecting Deer Creek and Columbine allotments, due to the agencies failure to consider the effects of grazing on wildlife listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Despite the cancelled permit, the Martinez cattle are still grazing on National Forest land, continuing to damage the land, feeding for free.

To assess the current status of the species in New Mexico, we conducted formal surveys and informal searches in suitable habitat in the southwestern and south-central portions of the state between 2000 and 2004.

This is part of a larger strategy by the Bush administration to systematically stymie public participation