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, […]
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 […]
By Holly Snow Canada (The following first appeared as a letter to the editor in the St. George News.) The iconic red cliff wonderland crowning our city is protected, for now, from a four-lane highway thanks to tens of thousands of public comments and a recent U.S. District Court decision. The proposed Northern Corridor Highway […]
The U.S. District Court issued an opinion and granted in part a motion by federal defendants, remanding the 2021 approval of the Northern Corridor Highway right-of-way through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in southwestern Utah. The court decision paves the way for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to reconsider their […]
Advocates for the West filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its failure to abide by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to determine the prioritization and timing of environmental analyses for livestock grazing allotments on public lands. This has resulted in […]
Advocates for the West won a lawsuit stopping livestock grazing authorizations in the Sonoran Desert National Monument. We represented Western Watersheds Project and the Sierra Club-Grand Canyon Chapter in the case. This is the second time a judge has determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) relied on faulty information to justify livestock grazing […]
Advocates for the West filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service challenging the agency’s unlawful decisions to improve and expand four locations in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness for aircraft landings and to permit hobby pilots to use these sites for motorized recreation. We’re representing Wilderness Watch, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Friends of […]
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We’re joined by Hilary Eisen, Policy Director at Winter Wildlands Alliance, and Marla Fox, Staff Attorney at WildEarth Guardians, along with Advocates for the West Senior Attorney Laurie Rule. We discuss the evolution of winter recreation on our western National Forests, motorized impacts to wildlife and natural resources, and the need to conserve land and […]
This week, Advocates for the West filed a settlement agreement sending the Bureau of Land Management back to its planning desk to reconsider the impacts of livestock grazing on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA)—a free-flowing river oasis in southeastern Arizona. The court-approved settlement compels the Bureau to reconsider the compatibility of grazing […]