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.
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.
This series of maps illustrates National Landscape Conservation System locations, made up of the gems within our public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
These charts detail the total number of acres leased for energy production on federal public lands versus the total producible acres. Data covers the years 2001 - 2008.
This five-part presentation by our Director of Economics, Pete Morton, provides a cautionary tale for those proposing to increase natural gas drilling – based on the lessons learned from the recent natural gas drilling boom in the Rockies.
