We’re joined by Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction; Michael Carroll, BLM Campaign Director for The Wilderness Society; and Sarah Stellberg, Staff Attorney at Advocates for the West. The panel discusses this history or institutional conservation in the United States, including the shift from a top-down to […]
Advocates for the West and our conservation partners filed suit against the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) alleging ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For over sixteen years, the public utility has been out of legal compliance with federal requirements to provide proper fish passage for ESA-listed Chinook salmon and bull trout […]
Get the latest on the work we’re doing to protect the West’s public lands, water, fish, and wildlife! Read our 2024 Annual Report here. In an effort to reduce our reliance on natural resources, and pare down the size of this ever growing publication, we decided with this Annual Report to recognize donors, foundations, and businesses […]
Advocates for the West and a coalition of local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains that would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened species, and permanently scar thousands of acres […]
Advocates for the West won a significant victory in our sweeping case challenging thousands of oil and gas leases in sage-grouse habitats. On Friday, 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 and prohibited any further development of those […]
Today, the National Park Service, Resource Renewal Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, Point Reyes Seashore Ranching Association, other Point Reyes National Seashore ranchers, and The Nature Conservancy reached a landmark agreement to settle a decades-long land-use conflict over the future of dairying, cattle ranching, and wildlife management at northern California’s Point Reyes […]
Advocates for the West and our partners won a major victory to protect Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in southwest Utah from a destructive highway proposal. Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) signed a Record of Decision to deny a right-of-way for the four-lane Northern Corridor […]
This winter solstice, we hope you enjoy the literary excerpt and poem contained below, graciously shared by our friend and supporter Marina Richie. Marina is a proud tree hugger, wilderness advocate, and author of Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher, winner of the 2024 John Burroughs Medal and a 2022 National Outdoor Book Award. Her articles, essays, […]
Wyoming’s Powder River Basin The massive Converse County Oil and Gas Project in the Powder River basin of eastern Wyoming threatens the survival of sage-grouse and birds of prey and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants. We won a significant victory halting the 5,000-well project until the Bureau of […]
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its final Environmental Impact Statement and proposed plan amendments for Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning, laying out the blueprint of the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s public lands habitat but falling far short of what science says the birds need to avoid extinction. Conservation groups […]