Today, President Obama signed into law legislation authorizing the National Park Service to continue to issue permits for commercial packstock use within Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks while the agency completes a stewardship plan for park wilderness.

As the federal Bureau of Land Management works to create the first land-use plan for the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the agency has a historic opportunity to protect some of the world’s most significant wildlife resources that sustain many communities in the western

Statement from David Moulton, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for The Wilderness Society, on the Department of Interior report on idle oil and gas leases on federal lands.

Fracking disclosure and master leasing plans critical to balanced management approach