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

Press Releases
Apr 4, 2005
Civil action for declaratory and injunctive relief arising from the United States Forest Service’s decision to proceed with the

Timber sale will result in logging rare mature ponderosa pine trees, impacting sensitive species' habitat and watershed of the Rio Vallecitos

Public Lands
#WildlandsForWildlife
Mar 24, 2005
Lawsuit Challenges Exemptions from Lesser Prairie-chicken Protective Stipulations Granted to Oil and Gas

In response to pressure from the oil and gas industry, a lawsuit challenged 13 exemptions from lesser prairie-chicken protective stipulations granted to oil and gas companies in 2004.

Climate + Energy, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #KeepItInTheGround
Mar 24, 2005
The Bureau of Land Management violated the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), the Federal Lands Policy Manage

In response to pressure from the oil and gas industry, a lawsuit challenged 13 exemptions from lesser prairie-chicken protective stipulations granted to oil and gas companies in 2004.

Public Lands, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #WildlandsForWildlife
Mar 21, 2005
The Tajique Watershed Restoration HFRA Project and Citizen’s Alternative Proposal

Officials from the Mountainair Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest have released the draft plan for the Tajique Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) Project

Public Lands
#EcosystemRestoration
Mar 14, 2005
Road Decommissioning and Fuel Breaks for Santa Fe Forest Restoration and Fire Protection on the Santa Fe National Forest, Coyote

We propose to collaborate with the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest, which supports the highest road densities of any forest in the Southwest Region (See R3 75 species BA), to decommission or obliterate unnecessary roads.

Public Lands
#Rewilding
Mar 11, 2005
Comments on the Policy on Genetics in Endangered Species Activities

A primary purpose of the ESA is to "provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved." I am concerned that the direction in your memorandum would actually contradict this stated purpose.

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct
Mar 7, 2005
Group Proposes Innovative Partnership with Forest Service to Restore Forest and Watershed Health

WildEarth Guardians, most often in the courtroom challenging U.S. Forest Service logging proposals, is now trying to work with the agency to reduce environmental damage.

Public Lands
#Rewilding
Mar 4, 2005
Plan Would Close Some SF Forest Roads

The Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest has a problem: too many open roads-- 1,860 miles of them, or about 2.7 miles of road per square mile of forest, to be exact

Public Lands
#Rewilding
Feb 25, 2005
Agreement Creates New Hope and Mechanisms to Restore Rio Grande

This week, environmental groups and the City of Albuquerque entered into an historic settlement agreement in the lawsuit over the Rio Grande and the silvery minnow. The two sides joined forces to take an important step.

Rivers, Wildlife
#ReviveTheRio
Feb 25, 2005
River Elbows Minnow Off Center Stage

When environmentalists filed a lawsuit five years ago to appropriate some of Albuquerque's "imported" water, it was widely seen as pitting the silvery minnow against city-dwelling humans

Rivers
#ReviveTheRio