Our October Voices for the West webinar featured a conversation with author Betsy Gaines Quammen, who discussed the current polarization, divisiveness, and disinformation setting our country on a course toward on-going insurrection. Following the publication of her book, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West, Gaines Quammen has spent the past […]
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Advocates for the West recently filed the opening brief in our case for Friends of the Clearwater against the U.S. Forest Service to protect Idaho’s Salmon-Clearwater Divide from massive clearcuts and other destructive logging in biodiverse old growth forest and sensitive watersheds. Our case challenges two neighboring logging projects, “Hungry Ridge” and “End of the World,” which when […]
In September, Advocates for the West rebooted our Social Distancing Hour webinar series as Voices for the West. Our first Voices for the West presentation featured Conservation Lands Foundation’s (CLF) Senior Legal & Policy Director Danielle Murray, who presented a detailed look at their new climate atlas. Advocates for the West’s Senior Attorney Todd Tucci […]
The Nez Perce Tribe recently reached a settlement agreement with the state of Oregon resolving a case that Advocates for the West filed—along with the Tribe’s Office of Legal Counsel—challenging the state of Oregon’s Clean Water Act section 401 water quality certification for the relicensing of the Hells Canyon Complex. The Hells Canyon Complex, owned and operated by […]
Advocates for the West won a strong victory for threatened Upper Willamette River wild spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead last week when U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez issued a final opinion and order directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to immediately undertake new measures at dams in Oregon’s Willamette River basin. The injunction requires the Corps to […]
Advocates for the West secured a victory this week in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to protect threatened Idaho salmon, steelhead, and bull trout from irrigation water diversions in Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley. The Ninth Circuit decision, issued on August 25, upholds our lower court win that requires the U.S. Forest Service to consult with experts and protect fish. We sued […]
Advocates for the West is celebrating a sound victory for threatened Upper Willamette River wild spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez of Oregon federal court outlined the actions that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) must immediately take to protect these imperiled species from extinction. In a strongly worded draft order, […]
June’s Social Distancing Hour featured our work protecting sensitive desert habitats in Arizona, including the Sonoran Desert National Monument and the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, from degradation caused by cattle grazing. This discussion is led be Senior Attorney Laurie Rule, Staff Attorney Andrew Missel, and guest panelist Cyndi Tuell, who works for our […]
Advocates for the West filed suit against the Arizona Bureau of Land Management (Bureau) for failing to protect the native plants, wildlife, and cultural resources found within the Sonoran Desert National Monument from the devastating impacts of livestock grazing.