Public Lands Rule

3-19-25 Voices for the West: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Conservation
March 19, 2025

3-19-25 Voices for the West: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Conservation

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, Partners move to intervene again to defend Public Lands Rule
September 30, 2024

Advocates for the West, Partners move to intervene again to defend Public Lands Rule

After taking similar legal action in two other cases in recent months, Advocates for the West and our partners at the Conservation Lands Foundation and The Wilderness Society filed a motion to intervene to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Public Lands Rule against a lawsuit brought this past summer by the State of […]

Conservation Groups Seek to Defend Public Lands Rule from Misguided Legal Attack
September 19, 2024

Conservation Groups Seek to Defend Public Lands Rule from Misguided Legal Attack

Advocates for the West and our partners filed a motion to intervene to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Public Lands Rule against a lawsuit brought this past summer by the States of North Dakota, Idaho, and Montana in North Dakota federal district court.  The conservation groups—including Conservation Lands Foundation, The Wilderness Society, and […]

Defending BLM’s ability to manage for healthy landscapes, wildlife, clean water, cultural resources
July 25, 2024

Defending BLM’s ability to manage for healthy landscapes, wildlife, clean water, cultural resources

Advocates for the West and our partners filed a motion to intervene in federal court to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recently finalized Public Lands Rule. The motion comes in response to a case and motion for preliminary injunction filed by the States of Utah and Wyoming that seeks to prevent the BLM […]