The Land and Water Conservation Fund has been used to protect millions of acres of wild places. Here are the top priorities for LWCF dollars for the 2013 budget year. Areas in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Maine, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming are on the list.
Information about H.R. 4381, 4382, 4383, a trio of bad oil and gas drilling bills. These bills are solutions looking for problems - and if enacted would cause greater problems than they purport to solve. See our fact sheet for more information.
Also included are the letters The Wilderness Society sent to the House Natural Resources Committee about the bills.
Following is a quick analysis of the Forest Service’s final planning rule, which was released on March 23. The planning rule establishes a new regulatory framework for updating the Forest Service’s land and resource management plans required for each national forest by the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (NFMA). This analysis focuses on changes between the final rule and the draft rule that was published on February 14, 2011, along with a few changes that were made to clarify the final rule during the two months following release of the final EIS.
