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Reality Check: Wild Lands Policy Myth vs. Fact

February 6, 2011 By Juli Slivka

A new Bureau of Land Management policy that protects millions of acres of wilderness quality lands across the West has come under attack.  Public support of the BLM’s Wild Lands policy is important because this new policy is our best shot at protecting many lands that we have fought to defend from degradation and abuse during the Bush administration. Read more

America’s Great Outdoors in action!

November 24, 2010 By Leslie Jones

Throughout the summer we’ve invited you to participate in shaping President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative. Nearly a quarter million of you have engaged — either by attending one of the more than 25 “listening and learning” sessions the Administration held across the country or by sending in your thoughts and ideas to the America’s Great Outdoors website. Read more

Remembering Stewart Udall’s Conservation Legacy

March 23, 2010 By John Chelminiak

Stewart L. Udall with Lady Bird Johnson on a trip to Snake River in 1964. Courtesy NPS.

One of the great voices of conservation has passed away. Stewart Udall, who  served in Congress and as Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died last weekend at the age of 90. Read more

Salazar Well-Suited for Interior

December 18, 2008 By Steve Smith

Sen. Ken Salazar, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Interior, has been a bridge-building environmental leader in Colorado for over a decade and a personally committed land steward before that. He understands the land, water, and people of the west and the intricate connections among those key features of our natural and social landscape. Read more