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Protecting America's lands by advocating for sensible operations and management funding.

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Why is Congress Making a Bad Situation Worse?

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December 9, 2011 - With fresh attacks on clean air, clean water, and open spaces, Congress seems intent on making a bad situation for America’s environment even worse! (We don’t know why, so we asked them.) As much as we would like not to believe it, it seems as though the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is trying to pull a fast one on the American people and our lands and waters. more

The Trillion Dollar American Job Engine

Family enjoying the outdoors

Credit: USFWS

October 21, 2011 - America's wild places are a wonder to behold, from the stark, jagged peaks of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to the flame-colored leaves across the rolling slopes of Shenandoah National Park. more

Senate Approves Continuing Resolution – Without Detrimental Cuts to Clean Energy Funding

Credit: Kelsey Bensch

September 28, 2011 - The past few months have seen an unprecedented attack on environmental issues by those in Congress. With legislation such as the Great Outdoors Giveaway bill looming on the horizon, it may seem to many that the well-being of our environment has become just another casualty of bipartisan politics. But for those who support the clean energy industry and the jobs it creates, Sept. 26 marked a minor victory with the Senate’s approval of short-term spending measures, which circumvented yet another government shutdown. more

Stand up to Congress! Don’t allow industry to buy out our wilderness

Great Blue Heron at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Mass. Refuges would suffer massive cuts under current proposals.

Credit: Ken Andrews, USFWS

September 23, 2011 - How is it that an oil and gas industry rolling in profits can manage to receive government subsidies and tax breaks while conservation programs that are only a small part of the federal budget are threatened with the ax as Congress attempts to balance America’s budget? more