Current work in wildlife, rivers, public lands, and climate
Press Releases
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.
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
After years of often-confrontational tactics toward New Mexico ranchers and other traditional lifestyles, WildEarth Guardians are trying a creative approach to cutting back the number of cattle tromping through public lands.
Environmentalists say ending grazing -- even if only on some allotments-- would be good for the land, for native wildlife and for riparian areas and watersheds.
WildEarth Guardians, Prescott National Forest Friends, and two individuals have won an administrative appeal reversing a U.S. Forest Service decision to allow continued cattle grazing in the "Verde Rim" Livestock grazing project.
Squirrel densities were found to be extremely low in comparison with most other regions and times.