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Press Releases
Jun 24, 2024
Supreme Court Takes Up Case Challenging Utah’s Uinta Basin Railway

In addition to climate damage, the railway would harm public lands, rare plants and wildlife habitat.

Climate + Energy, Utah
#ForceForNature, #JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Jun 21, 2024
Forest Service urged to strengthen protections for mature and old-growth forests in draft national old growth plan

The U.S. Forest Service must fulfill the direction of President Biden’s Executive Order to protect mature and old-growth forests for the climate, clean water and imperiled species. 

Public Lands
#Climate Forests, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #Rewilding
Jun 20, 2024
Fish and Wildlife Service denies federal protections for imperiled Rio Grande fish species

Federal officials announce the Rio Grande chub and Rio Grande sucker do not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act

Colorado, New Mexico, Rivers, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #LivingRio, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #ReviveTheRio, #RioGrande
Jun 20, 2024
Grizzly bear death at Idaho bait station precisely what conservation groups’ lawsuit hoped to prevent

Another protected grizzly bear in Idaho has been shot by a hunter at a black bear bait station

Idaho, Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement
Jun 14, 2024
Coalition Sues for Old-Growth Protections in Willamette National Forest

Forest Service Ignores Climate Benefits of Large, Old Trees

Oregon, Public Lands
#Climate Forests, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #Rewilding, #WildlandsForWildlife
Jun 13, 2024
Federal officials urged to strengthen sage grouse habitat protections, prevent bird’s extinction

Seventy-seven land-use plans proposed by the BLM threaten 69 million acres of greater sage grouse habitat.

Public Lands, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #SafeguardTheSagebrushSea, #StopExtinction
Jun 11, 2024
Bureau of Land Management receives new legal petition to reduce conflicts between livestock and wildlife

Conflicts triggered by livestock grazing in wildlife habitat are a major cause of death for species including wolves, grizzly bears, and coyotes

Montana, Public Lands, Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndTheWarOnWildlife, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #WildlandsForWildlife
Jun 4, 2024
Santa Fe National Forest faces lawsuit for allowing trespass livestock into Valles Caldera National Preserve

Lawsuit follows years of inaction by the Forest Service to prevent livestock from illegally entering the Preserve

New Mexico, Public Lands
#PressStatement, #WildlandsForWildlife
Jun 3, 2024
Conservation groups celebrate plan to restore grizzly bears to North Cascades

Concerns remain about source population fragility

Montana, Public Lands, Washington, Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #Rewilding
May 30, 2024
WildEarth Guardians to showcase 100,000 actions to honor 100 years of Gila Wilderness at Silver City celebration

Protecting the wildlife, habitat, water, and cultural resources of the Gila Wilderness and surrounding wild, yet unprotected, landscape of the Greater Gila region

Arizona, New Mexico, Public Lands
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #GreaterGila, #PressStatement, #TrapFreeNM