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Oct 17, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Grand Junction, Colorado -- Conservationists celebrated today's announcement by the Bureau of Land Management finalizing a series of plans that will increase protections for sensitive wildlife habitat, cultural sites, and wildlands. Despite significant conservation gains, leaders expressed disappointment with the plan's modest emissions reductions and noted that there is still work to be done.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
A new tool developed by The Wilderness Society maps the wildest places across the contiguous United States, revealing places furthest from roads where nature is relatively intact, the night sky is dark, and nature’s sounds are not drowned out by traffic or other industrial noises. The launch of the tool comes at the end of Wilderness Month – a celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Washington D.C. (August 20th) -- Today, Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes filed an outrageous lawsuit against the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the federal government’s centuries-old authority to own and manage federal public lands on behalf of the American public. Having repeatedly lost on these issues in the past, Utah is now bringing its long-shot arguments to the Supreme Court.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Tomorrow, the House is marking up its version of the Interior and Environment appropriations bill. Among other attacks on public lands, the bill would re-open lands next to the Boundary Waters for mining; leave the Arctic Refuge vulnerable to oil and gas leasing; and cut funding needed to implement the BLM public lands rule and other recent conservation breakthroughs.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Washington D.C. (June 20, 2024) -- Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement to adopt a nationwide forest plan amendment to conserve old-growth forests across the National Forest System.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Old trees are having a major moment across the country as the U.S. Forest Service prepares to unveil two important proposals to conserve old-growth forests nationally and in the Pacific Northwest. The Forest Service signaled its intentions this winter when it sought public comment on two initiatives.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Forest Service issued a Notice of Intent to amend the Northwest Forest Plan, which encompasses 19 million acres of federal forest lands in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. The news follows the creation of and months of planning and coordination by a Federal Advisory Committee that provides the Forest Service advice and recommendations for sustainable, climate-adapted, wildfire-resilient landscape management across the Northwest Forest Plan area.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
When COP 28 puts the need for urgent climate solutions in the spotlight, the Biden Administration should look to public lands and waters. Public lands and waters are necessary mitigation and adaptation tools to a changing climate. They sustain biodiversity and provide unique habitats for species forced to move due to climate impacts. They house massive potential for responsible renewable energy development and if managed properly, can drastically cut down on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
WASHINGTON D.C. (October 31, 2023) -- Today, the White House appointed Laura Daniel-Davis as the acting deputy secretary of the Interior, replacing outgoing Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau. Daniel-Davis is currently the principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management at Interior.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
wilderness.org | Emily Denny
Latinx community defies oil and gas refinery hazards During a recent “cafecito,” a short and casual conversation, Erandi Treviño sat down with a community member who told her the air he breathes feels heavy. It’s a feeling she’s all too familiar with after spending most of her life in southeast Houston, home to the largest concentration of oil refineries and petrochemical plants in the United States.
