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

Press Releases
Apr 3, 2006
Forest Service Comanche-Cimarron Plan Threatens all U.S. Forests & Grasslands

Remote Colorado and Kansas Grasslands are Test-Case for Dangerous New Policy
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Wildlife
#EndTheWarOnWildlife, #ProtectPrairieDogEmpires
Mar 29, 2006
A Vision for Wild Grasslands: WildEarth Guardians ‘Sustainable Use Conservation Alternative’ for the Comanche & Cimarron Nat

WildEarth Guardians has developed, with the evidence and advice of scientists, organizations, and citizens, this Sustainable Use Conservation Alternative for the Comanche and Cimarron National Grasslands Land Management Plan revision process

Mar 28, 2006
Featured Guardian: Martha’s Commitment to WildEarth Guardians

Martha feels that her actions are aligned with her beliefs and that she is doing her part to combat the anti-environmental policies of the Bush administration
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Climate + Energy, Public Lands, Rivers, Wildlife
Mar 28, 2006
National Forest Management Act (NFMA): Final rule describes the National Forest System land management planning framework

In 2005 the Bush administration's Forest Service proposed that all forest plans would be produced under a ''Categorical Exclusion'' from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Contact: United States Forest Service The Wilderness Society

Public Lands
#WildlandsForWildlife
Mar 28, 2006
Pay a Buck, Fill the River – Keep water flowing in the Rio Grande

The WildEarth Guardians goal is to have a constant flow in the river to protect endangered species
Contact: Staci Matlock The New Mexican

Rivers
#ReviveTheRio
Mar 28, 2006
Environmentalists Challenge Federal Agency Over Aplomado Falcon Habitat

The coalition asked a federal judge to declare that Fish and Wildlife violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to make a determination on critical habitat and to order the agency to make a decision
Contact: Albuquerque Journal

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct
Mar 27, 2006
Protection Sought For Aplomado Falcon Habitat: Oil and Gas a Growing Threat to Rare Raptor

'We aim to obtain urgently needed habitat protection for this rare and beautiful raptor - Aplomado falcons have returned to New Mexico skies, but they're encountering tremendous threats from oil and gas drilling''
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Climate + Energy
#KeepItInTheGround
Mar 26, 2006
Endangered Species Act Faces Big Changes

Changes to Species Act gain steam as the Senate considers the bill already passed by the House that would gut the ESA
Contact: Tania Soussan Albuquerque Journal

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct
Mar 24, 2006
Environmental Group Files Suit Over Endangered Pecos Bluntnose Shiner

The lawsuit claims that the segments of the Pecos River controlled by the two federal agencies contain the only remaining populations of the Pecos bluntnose shiner - The agencies' actions have adversely modified and destroyed designated critical habitat
Contact: Albuquerque Journal

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct
Mar 23, 2006
Pecos River Needs Rights to Its Own Water, Lawsuit Provides an ”Invitation to Solutions”

Lawsuit alleges that the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have each violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to utilize their full discretion to provide adequate flows for the endangered Pecos bluntnose shiner
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct