Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to reconsider a right-of-way for the proposed four-lane Northern Corridor Highway through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in southwestern Utah near Zion National Park. The proposed Northern Corridor Highway route violates five […]
The Idaho Board of Environmental Quality issued a decision invalidating Perpetua Resources’ air pollution permit for the proposed Stibnite Gold Mine in Valley County. Blasting and hauling operations at the proposed mine would emit massive amounts of arsenic-laden dust. The Board found that the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) failed to follow Idaho air pollution […]
Advocates for the West is pleased to provide learning experiences for future environmental leaders through ongoing internship, externship, and clerkship opportunities. We spoke with Meridian Wappett, former Advocates for the West extern and current University of Montana law student, about her passion for, and connection to, the West. Advocates for the West: Will you please […]
We’re joined by landscape painter Rachel Teannalach; illustrator and muralist Miguel Almeida; Britt Freda, artist and Creative Director at Northwest Artists Against Extinction; and M Acuff, artist and a Professor of Art at Whitman College. The panel discusses the intersection of art and environmental activism. View the full presentation here.
We’re joined by Haley Sweetland Edwards, a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly and author of the article “Showdown at Railroad Valley”; Josh Johnson, Central Idaho Director at the Idaho Conservation League; and Bryan Hurlbutt, Staff Attorney at Advocates for the West. The panel discusses shortcomings of the 1872 Mining Law, efforts to reform it, […]
The Biden administration released a draft amendment today for 77 land-use plans across the western United States intended to protect the imperiled greater sage-grouse, an umbrella species whose survival is intricately linked to the health of the vast Sagebrush Sea ecosystem. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) preferred alternative falls woefully short of what is needed to […]
Did you know there are many ways to give for the West? In addition to monetary donations, you can protect the West for generations to come by giving from a wide range of assets—from retirement accounts to real estate, and securities to estate plans. We’re joined by Aimee Moran, Advocates for the West’s Deputy Director, […]
Get the latest on the work we’re doing to protect the West’s public lands, water, fish, and wildlife! Read our 2023 Annual Report here.
The literary excerpt contained below was graciously shared by our longtime friend and supporter Pat Cary Peek (pictured at right). Pat’s book, One Winter in the Wilderness, recounts a winter spent with her husband, Dr. James Peek (pictured at left), at the University of Idaho’s Taylor Ranch Field Station within Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return […]
Sage-Grouse in Idaho Advocates for the West won a significant victory to protect the small and declining eastern Idaho sub-population of the imperiled greater sage-grouse when a federal judge fully vacated a set of approvals by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) authorizing development of the Caldwell Canyon phosphate mine. Phosphate from the mine was slated to be used by […]