The federal government on Monday extended for six months a moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon as it awaits the conclusions of a study of potential environmental harm to the region. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the extended prohibition, and added that Interior's preferred alternative…
Gareth Martins, Kate Ketschek Elected to Three-Year Terms Bend, Ore., June 16, 2011 – The Conservation Alliance membership elected Gareth Martins, Director of Marketing at Osprey Packs, and Kate Ketschek, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for NEMO Equipment to new three-year terms on the Alliance board of directors. Martins was re-elected after serving a…
Eastern Mountain Sports President, Will Manzer, talks about the fragility of the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon Uranium Mining PSA from James Q Martin Media on Vimeo. It sounds insane, but it’s absolutely true. A two-year ban on destructive uranium mining in the Grand Canyon is set to expire on July 21, with no additional…
Bruce Babbitt, former Interior Secretary and Governor of Arizona, delivered a pointed speech to the National Press Club yesterday in which he said the current US Congress "has embarked on the most radical course in our history." He continued: "The Congress, led by the House of Representatives, has declared war on our land, water and…
The Conservation Alliance was included on an ad that ran this week in the New York Times, asking the Obama Administration to impose a 20-year moratorium on uranium mining on one million acres of public land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. The Alliance funded the Grand Canyon Trust in 2010 to lead the campaign…
Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker introduced legislation yesterday to protect 20,000 acres of public land in Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest.The Conservation Alliance has twice supported the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition's Tennessee Wild Campaign, which is organizing local support for the protections. The legislation faces challenges in a gridlocked Congress, but it is…
A little rain didn't stop 783 people from coming to KEEN Footwear's "Recess Revolution" kick-off event in downtown Portland's Director Park on Thursday, May 26! In addition to taking the Recess Pledge to stop work for 15 minutes each day and get out and play, people of all ages also played tetherball and spun…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that BLM will not designate any Wild Lands under the new Wild Land Policy he announced in December, and which many in the outdoor industry fought hard to defend. Congress voted to deny any funding to implement the policy in April as part of the 2011 budget deal,…
Patagonia, Inc., a founding member of The Conservation Alliance and Pinnacle Member, staged a peaceful 500-employee-strong cacerolazo – a Chilean-style protest developed in the Pinochet era where citizens bang pots and pans in loud opposition – to protest the Chilean government's approval of a multi-national energy company to construct five huge dams in the…
Yesterday, the so-called "Offshore Production and Safety Act of 2011" bill (S. 953), sponsored by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), failed on the Senate floor by a vote of 42-57. This bill would have led to aggressive drilling in America's Arctic; bringing back Arctic lease sales cancelled by President Obama in wake of the Deepwater Horizon…
