Give Sage-grouse a Home on the Range — Not in a Cage
Sagebrush — that’s just the scrubby vegetation you have to drive through to get to the pretty pine trees and the mountains, right? Who cares what happens to it? Well, greater sage-grouse and more than 350 other species do because they have nowhere else to go. And so do the sportsmen and women, hikers, ranchers […]
Wildlife, Public Health Endangered with Methane Rule Suspension
At the urging of fossil fuel interests, on June 12, 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a two-year suspension or “stay” of core components of its 2016 final rule to curb methane pollution from new and modified oil and gas facilities. This is an unwise and harmful move by a federal agency charged with […]
The Antiquities Act Turns 111! How About a Hundred More Years?
The Antiquities Act, which has been integral to building our nation’s public-lands legacy, is 111 years strong. Americans’ love of and support for our public lands remains strong, too. Support is strong despite attempts to transfer, sell off or carve up the lands that belong to all Americans, whether they live next door to a […]