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Bush’s Last Assault; What the outgoing administration still has planned for our wild lands

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November 14, 2008 - Throughout the past eight years, the Bush administration has treated our country’s wild lands as if they belong to industry. Through a series of short-cut measures and regulations that have cut science and the public out of decision making, the administration has consistently rolled back environmental protections and sharply favored industrial use and exploitation of our wild lands above all other public concerns. And they’re not done yet. more

Wilderness Society Briefs Media on Public Lands Priorities for New Administration

November 13, 2008 - While concerns about the economy continue to generate huge media interest,  a “Who’s Who” of national reporters turned their attention for an hour to thinking about what the new Obama Administration might mean to America’s public lands and the wildlife that call them home. more

Potential Drilling, Mining Threaten Wild Salmon in Western Alaska

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October 21, 2008 - Bristol Bay, the largest wild salmon fishery in the world, is at risk from industry proposals to drill for oil offshore, and to develop the world’s largest open pit gold and copper mine onshore. The Wilderness Society is fighting these dual threats and working to protect this southwestern Alaska region renowned for its biological productivity and cultural history. more

Assault on Utah: How the Bush administration wants to change Canyonlands

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October 21, 2008 - Stand at the edge of Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah, and be prepared to be swept away by a landscape of redrock badlands and canyon country. This extraordinary national park, with its enormous views and unique geologic features, is largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management – and unfortunately the BLM is making some very disconcerting decisions about this precious part of south-eastern Utah. more