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WildEarth Guardians’ priority campaigns

Priorities

WildEarth Guardians’ priority campaigns reflect the most urgent issues that we face in the American West. Each is designed to have the greatest impact. Through strategic focus, measurable goals, and targeted funding, we are able to stretch our conservation dollars and make progress toward cleaner air, more abundant wildlife, protected lands, and restored rivers.

Endangered Species Act Defense

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Wildlife

Public Lands in Public Hands

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Public Lands

End the War on Wildlife

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Wildlife

Rio Grande: America's Great River

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Rivers

Greater Chaco

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Climate + Energy

Keep It in the Ground

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Climate + Energy

The Greater Gila

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Public Lands

WildEarth Guardians' Newsroom

WildEarth Guardians scores big protections for wildlife in New Mexico

Apr 13, 2021

SANTA FE, NM—In a major…

The Joshua Tree needs our help

Desert Sun | Apr 11, 2021

While the existential plight of the polar bear losing its critical habitat to climate change is well known, fewer of us are aware of a similar predicament facing one of the most iconic and beloved species in our backyard: the Joshua tree.

Key committee approves permanent Oregon predator control districts

Capital Press | Apr 9, 2021

Predator control districts, in which landowners tax themselves to pay for federal trappers, would become permanent in Oregon under a bill that’s now passed a key legislative committee.

Dustin Martin

Member, Board of Directors

Dustin grew up hiking, camping, riding, skiing and running the vast outdoor sanctuaries surrounding Gallup, NM. Distance running led him to New York City, where he earned an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Columbia University. In 2011, Dustin returned to the southwest to serve as program director for Wings of America- a not for profit that empowers Tribal youth and their families by introducing them to the cultural, spiritual and competitive legacy of Native runners. Under his leadership, the organization has continued to provide elite-level opportunities for talented Native runners while making a concerted effort to create new programs for fledgling harriers of all abilities. Moving forward, Dustin hopes to continue promoting the positive achievements of Native runners while helping foster and test new models for acquainting Native youth with their ancestral homelands.

Tricia Snyder

Rio Grande Campaigner

Tricia, as a child of military parents, spent much of her childhood moving frequently in the U.S. and abroad, but calls El Paso, TX home. Growing up on the banks of the (often dry) Rio Grande and the water scarcity of the Southwest sparked a life-long interest in finding solutions for water conflicts in the arid and semi-arid American West. Tricia received a B.S. in Geography with a focus on human-environment connection from New Mexico State University. Her research while there centered on water management across borders. She spent 5 years working with the Southwest Environmental Center working to protect and restore the wildlife and wild places of the Southwest borderlands, particularly focused on the recovery of the Mexican gray wolf. In 2015, Tricia moved to Washington state to pursue a graduate degree, receiving an M.S. in Cultural and Environmental Resource Management from Central Washington University. Her thesis, which conducted an adaptive capacity assessment of the Upper Klamath Basin, utilized both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She worked for nearly four years on salmon recovery as the Lead Entity Coordinator for the Yakima Basin in central Washington, bringing together a diverse group of interests and perspectives. Tricia joined WildEarth Guardians as the Rio Grande Campaigner in 2021.

WildEarth Guardians’ priority campaigns

Priorities

Endangered Species Act Defense

Public Lands in Public Hands

End the War on Wildlife

Rio Grande: America's Great River

Greater Chaco

Keep It in the Ground

The Greater Gila

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A milestone for wildlife and public lands in New Mexico

Traps, snares, and poisons banned on New Mexico public lands

Traps, snares, and poisons banned on New Mexico public lands

Traps, snares, and poisons banned on New Mexico public lands

WildEarth Guardians' Newsroom

WildEarth Guardians scores big protections for wildlife in New Mexico

The Joshua Tree needs our help

Key committee approves permanent Oregon predator control districts

WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.

Dustin Martin

Member, Board of Directors

Francine D. Spang-Willis

Member, Board of Directors

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Tricia Snyder

Rio Grande Campaigner