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Legal Status of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule PDF

2012 Priority Land Acquisition Projects: LWCF and Forest Legacy PDF

The Wilderness Society has identified top priority Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and Forest Legacy land acquisition projects across the country. These projects are found in 14 states, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. Read the complete list by clicking on the link below.

Protecting Colorado’s Economy, Communities and Environment from Global Warming PDF

Global warming is already affecting Colorado, and will continue to do so for decades to come. In the absence of national policy that jumpstarts the clean energy economy by ramping down dangerous carbon emissions, our economy and wildlands are at an even greater risk. As a result, additional resources are even more necessary for protecting our natural heritage, jobs, and communities from climate disruption. Given the scale of the threat, there is no time to waste. 

73 Colorado Elected Officials Send Letter of Support for Wild Lands Policy to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar PDF

Letter to Colorado BLM State Director Helen Hankins in Support of Wild Lands Policy PDF

On behalf of our thousands of members across Colorado, more than 20 Colorado organizations wrote BLM State Director Helen Hankins,  to express support for Wild Lands Secretarial Order 3310. The letter highlights the need to ensure that the Order is implemented immediately, in order to give due protection to wilderness values through the many ongoing land use planning processes and in land management decisions currently pending in Colorado.

The Roadless Rule: A Tenth Anniversary Assessment PDF

A decade after it was first adopted by the U.S. Forest Service, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has proven to be remarkably successful in protecting the 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas from road building and logging. Only about 75 miles of road building has occurred in the roadless areas – far less than the Forest Service had predicted a decade ago -- and just a miniscule fraction of the unroaded forests has been logged, mostly in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

Proposed Antonito S.E. Solar Energy Zone: Colorado PDF

Colorado is already known nationally and around the world as a clean energy leader, and the state’s many days of strong, high-elevation sun will provide fuel for much more renewable energy to come. In particular, the proposed Antonito Southeast Solar Energy Zone (SEZ), 29 miles south of Alamosa and near the New Mexico border, stands out as an exceptional area for solar development, and based on available data, could be developed with minimal environmental conflicts.

In The Zone: Powering the Future and Protecting Wildlands with Guided Solar Development PDF

America stands at a crossroads, with a historic opportunity to build a renewable energy future that is as green as it is clean. Our public lands have a role to play in the building of sustainable, environmentally responsible solar projects, and the decisions made during the coming months and years will shape both our western landscape and our chances for achieving a clean energy future.

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