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We’re joined by Theresa Pasqual, Director of Acoma Pueblo’s Historic Preservation Office, and Kenny Wintch, a Preservation Archaeologist working for Friends of Cedar Mesa, along with Advocates for the West Staff Attorney Sarah Stellberg to discuss the area’s archaeological and cultural significance, leasing of this landscape to oil and gas companies (often with minimal input from Tribes and the public), and the need for lasting protections […]

Congress established Utah’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in 2009 to protect popular trails, cultural resources, and critical habitat for 20 species of sensitive and threatened wildlife, including Washington County’s iconic and Endangered Species Act-protected Mojave desert tortoise.  But in the waning days of the Trump administration, then-Secretary David Bernhardt approved a plan to punch […]

We’re joined by Brooke Hess of The Grand Salmon team of paddlers, Danielle Katz of Rivers for Change, and Stephen Pfeiffer of Idaho Rivers United. Brooke, Danielle, and Stephen discuss The Grand Salmon Source to Sea Journey and its mission to connect, educate, and engage communities through conversations and storytelling in a call to action […]

Canadian mining company K2 Gold recently announced that it is suspending its controversial gold drilling project on California’s Conglomerate Mesa. For years, Advocates for the West has worked with our partners at Friends of the Inyo, Conservation Lands Foundation, and other groups to protect these biodiverse and culturally significant public lands — located on the doorstep of […]

Advocates for the West recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Idaho Conservation League (ICL) and Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s latest approval of a five-year gold exploration project in the Centennial Mountains near the agricultural community of Kilgore in eastern Idaho. The project, about 80 miles north of Idaho Falls on the Caribou-Targhee National […]

For our February 2022 Voices for the West webinar, we were joined by Laura Cunningham of Western Watersheds Project, Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity, and Chance Cutrano of Resource Renewal Institute. Laura, Jeff, and Chance discuss the need to protect public lands and wildlife at Point Reyes National Seashore — the only […]

Get the latest on the work we’re doing to protect the West’s public lands, waterways, fish, and wildlife! Read our 2021 Annual Report here.

Last June, we won a resounding court victory in our case for Idaho Conservation League against high-profile California suction dredge miner Shannon Poe. There, the Court ruled that Poe violated the Clean Water Act when he polluted Idaho’s South Fork of the Clearwater River without a required permit.  Now, in the next stage of the […]

The 20-year Sage Hen Integrated Forest Restoration Project in Idaho is an example of the troubling and illegal trend of “condition-based management” by the U.S. Forest Service. Under this practice, the “where,” “when,” and “how” of logging projects are not evaluated or disclosed until long after the Forest Service has approved them, making it impossible […]

Our January 2022 Voices for the West webinar featured a conversation with Dr. Jodi Hilty, President and Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and Dr. Harvey Locke, a recognized global leader in the field of parks, large landscape conservation, and the interface between nature and the climate. Jodi and Harvey discuss the […]