Thirty-eight Conservation Alliance members submit Roadless Area comment to the USDA
In partnership with 38 member companies, The Conservation Alliance submitted THIS LETTER to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the form of public comment.
In partnership with 38 member companies, The Conservation Alliance submitted THIS LETTER to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the form of public comment.
The United States Department of Agriculture released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on 10/17, recommending the Tongass NF be exempted from the National Roadless Rule and opened to old growth logging. Exactly what President Trump requested.
Fifty-nine Conservation Alliance members joined us and Protect our Winters (POW) in an open letter to the House of Representatives, urging all members to vote in favor of restoring protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The US Forest Service is proposing to eliminate public participation and science-based analysis for nearly every decision affecting national forests, from timber sales to road construction to pipeline rights of way.
The Bureau of Land Management has released its final management plan for the illegally reduced Bears Ears National Monument. The plan covers only 15 percent of the original monument as designated by President Obama in 2016, and fails to protect most of the lands with cultural and recreational significance.
We have identified four campaigns that we’ll be giving heightened attention through 2020. These four priorities would protect and defend wild places in Alaska, Montana, Utah, and Colorado. We chose these priorities with guidance from our Board Advocacy Committee and based on a variety of factors such as conservation significance, political viability, and proximity to Conservation Alliance member companies.
The Conservation Alliance enthusiastically endorses the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act and looks forward to working with the entire Montana delegation to protect this important watershed this Congress.
Four longtime Conservation Alliance priorities continued their journey through the congressional process today with a hearing in the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Restoring protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is important to a majority of Americans. We want to take solace in the fact that there exists at least one significant place where we didn’t let greed destroy the wild. Where wildlife roams free and man is but a visitor. It is about much more to the Gwich’in.
On July 7th Senator Jon Tester of Montana reintroduced the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, a bi-partisan, Montana-made bill that will protect the headwaters of the storied Blackfoot River. For over a decade, longtime Conservation Alliance grantee, Montana Wilderness Association (MWA), has been working with a diverse coalition of stakeholders to secure protections for this landscape.