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The economics of protecting wilderness

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August 5, 2010 - Peter Metcalf, CEO of the outdoor gear vendor Black Diamond Equipment, wrote an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune explaining the connection between public lands and economic opportunity. Metcalf provides evidence that far from preventing job growth, protecting wilderness actually helps spur and sustain it. more

Saving Utah’s Desolation Canyon: A new fate for this rafter’s mecca

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August 5, 2010 - Eastern Utah’s famed Desolation Canyon is well known as many things: rafter’s playground, archeological treasure trove, icon of the Old West. Now this emphatically rugged stretch of the Green River adds conservation history to its lore. On July 30, after years of negotiation, conservation groups, led by our partner the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, resolved a long-running struggle over natural gas drilling around Desolation Canyon, one of the wildest stretches of river land in the U.S. West. more

Wind energy guidelines are a promising start

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August 4, 2010 - Recently a group of conservationists, wind developers, Native American tribes, and state environmental officials sent a list of recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior on how best to avoid and minimize wind energy impacts on wildlife habitats.  Now that new bills are emerging in Congress that address solar and wind generation on public lands, these recommendations can help sha more

Listen to TWS's JP Leous on the Gulf oil disaster, climate change, and more on Progressive Radio

June 23, 2010 - Climate Policy Advisor JP Leous was the guest on the Dr. Molly Barrow show yesterday on the Progressive Radio Network. Even though Dr. Barrow specializes in relationship counseling, she realized that America’s relationship to fossil fuels is pretty dysfunctional. Listen in to the recording to hear JP’s interview about the Gulf oil disaster, climate change, and what we can do to lessen our dependence fossil fuels. Listen here more

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