In their dogged battle to control federal public lands, San Juan County and the State of Utah have filed notices of appeal challenging the Federal District Court’s decision that Salt Creek in Canyonlands National Park is not a highway.
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Impassioned defense of wildlands
In the morass of anti-environmental, anti-wilderness, anti-clean air and anti-clean water initiatives that have defiled the appropriations process for funding the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agencies and others that protect our planet, it’s nice to see that some members of Congress are still interested in preserving America’s natural resources.
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House champs stand up to “Great Outdoors Giveaway”
Nearly 60 million acres of protected public lands were put on the chopping block yesterday, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s “Great Outdoors Giveaway” Act, HR 1581, received a hearing in the Public Lands Subcommittee.
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Urgent: Help stop this week’s double assault on wilderness!
Please take a moment to email or call your Representative and tell him/her to stop the Great Outdoors Giveaway! Use our online action center to send an email message or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your representative's office.
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Will your Rep. stand up for 60 million acres of wilderness?
Next Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands will hold a hearing on the “Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act” – a bill that would remove protections from 60 million acres of roadless lands across the country, including 1.3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management...
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