In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity, Idaho Conservation League, and Advocates for the West, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ordered the Idaho Club to stop construction on a commercial marina and lakeside housing development at the mouth of Trestle Creek on Lake Pend Oreille. The creek accounts for more than […]
Advocates for the West and our partners at the Center for Biological Diversity and Idaho Conservation League (ICL) filed suit against two federal agencies for approving a commercial marina and luxury housing near the mouth of Trestle Creek on Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille. Work on the project is underway in apparent violation of the federal permits. Advocates […]
The literary excerpt contained below was graciously shared by our longtime friend and supporter Julie Weston (pictured at right). Julie grew up in Idaho and practiced law for many years in Seattle, Washington. Her book, The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009), won […]
A Montana federal court judge issued a ruling this week granting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to reevaluate its determination justifying livestock grazing at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana’s Centennial Valley, to reconsider its grazing permit approach, and to reevaluate the environmental impacts of commercial cattle grazing at the Refuge. […]
Sage-grouse and the Sagebrush Sea We won a significant victory in our sweeping case challenging thousands of oil and gas leases in sage-grouse habitats. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the first Trump administration illegally approved hundreds of oil and gas leases on public lands in “Phase One” of our […]
Advocates for the West and five of our conservation partner organizations sent a letter to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), warning that at least 5,033 oil and gas leases—covering nearly 4 million acres—may now be legally invalid. The letter asks the agency to halt all new leasing and permitting until […]
Advocates for the West and our conservation partners are challenging an attempt by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to sidestep a 2024 court order halting the Converse County Oil & Gas Project in the southern Powder River Basin of Wyoming and unlawfully expedite development of new wells. Powder River Basin Resource Council and Western […]
We’re joined by Mac Lacy, Senior Attorney at Oregon Natural Desert Association; Paul Ruprecht, Nevada Director for Western Watersheds Project; and Laurie Rule, Senior Attorney at Advocates for the West. The panel discusses how conservationists can best advocate for protecting our public lands from harm caused by livestock grazing in light of recent regulatory rollbacks […]
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By Meredith Diamond Last month, Perpetua Resources held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Stibnite Mining District within Idaho’s South Fork Salmon River watershed, with Idaho Governor Brad Little, U.S. Army Major General John Reim, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Kristin Sleeper in attendance. That same day, the U.S. Forest Service issued a conditional […]