The Wilderness Society Releases Congressional Briefing Book

By Drew Bush on January 16, 2009 - 6:11pm

With Congress back in session, our staff and policy experts have been working with members of the presidential transition team and with members of Congress to advise them on steps they can quickly take to right many of the environmental wrongs of the past eight years.

Much can be done to better manage our nation’s public lands — from securing sweeping wilderness protection, to promoting a major initiative to create green jobs to combat global warming, to setting aside funding outside the U.S. Forest Service budget for combating wildfires. To help educate new members of Congress on the nation’s public land management system, our staff is busy delivering our new briefing book to Capitol Hill.

The book contains sections on a wide variety of important land management issues, including: energy development on public lands; global warming on U.S. public lands; Wilderness designation; roadless forest protection; protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and many others.

In this briefing book, you’ll find an introduction to all of the major land management agencies (National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, Bureau of Land Management and The National Forests) and to all of our major issues. We hope you find it useful for understanding the most important land management issues confronting our new leadership.

You can read our recommendations to Congress or the entire briefing book here.

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