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Despite endorsement of some forest thinning projects on the Carson National Forest, WildEarth Guardians and Carson Forest Watch filed a lawsuit against the US Forest Service today to stop the Aqua Caballos Timber Sale, north of El Rito.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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