The state of Wyoming recently released the framework for a system proposing that developers “offset” destroyed sage-grouse habitat if they cannot avoid disturbing the landscape. This plan effectively paves the way for the state to auction off oil and gas leases within sage-grouse habitat, so long as the developers commit to contributing to a slush […]
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Watch the recording of our October Social Distancing Hour, in which we discuss our work fighting to protect Oregon’s Upper Willamette River wild spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead, which are facing the threat of extinction due to a series of high-head, outdated dams. View the full presentation here.
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale issued a decision giving Advocates for the West a sweeping victory in our case challenging the U.S. Air Force’s plans to indefinitely conduct urban warfare training involving F-15 fighter jets and plain clothes ground teams in Boise and other southern Idaho cities and towns. “I’m delighted with Judge Dale’s decision,” […]
Watch Advocates for the West’s September Social Distancing Hour, during which we discussed our work with Conservation Lands Foundation and its vast network of friends groups to protect some of the West’s most treasured landscapes from the Trump Administration’s attempts. View the full presentation here.
Advocates for the West is challenging the Trump Administration’s reckless land use plan for the Uncompahgre region of western Colorado in a new lawsuit. The plan opens vast areas – including the prized North Fork Valley – to oil and gas drilling and fails to protect wilderness-quality public lands, wildlife habitat and other valuable natural resources. […]
Advocates for the West is working with Conservation Lands Foundation, Conserve Southwest Utah and other allies in an effort to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from punching a four-lane highway through an area acquired for the purposes of conservation and recreation in southwest Utah’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA). BLM’s own environmental review […]
Watch Advocates for the West’s August Social Distancing Hour presentation in which we discuss Midas Gold & other mining threats in the West. View the full presentation here.
The Confluence Project is a collaboration between contemporary landscape painter Rachel Teannalach and Advocates for the West. We are working in tandem to advocate for the Pacific Salmon and the elaborate river and ocean ecosystems of which it is a part. This collection of over 24 paintings follows the migration route of the Pacific Salmon from Stanley River […]
Watch Advocates for the West’s July Social Distancing Hour as we explore the ways in which our work combats the effects of climate change and protects vital habitats needed by fish and wildlife to continue to survive in the American West. View the full presentation here.