This guide is intended to highlight the most important elements of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM’s) decisions in the agency’s western solar plan so that conservationists can effectively use the policy to protect wilderness-quality lands, wildlife h
Over the next few decades, meeting regional commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will require major investments in new energy infrastructure – investments that will influence the basic design of the region’s energy system for many decades to come.
In 1998, Congress passed a law specifically prohibiting a road through designated Wilderness in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Despite this prohibition, Congress approved a bill in 2009 (P.L.
America’s environment – the air, water, and land shared by all Americans – is vital to the American economy. The values of clean, drinkable water and breathable air are valued in the trillions of dollars.
Cover letter to David Hayes, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, that accompanied The Wilderness Society's economic analysison the Izembek Land Exchange and Road Corridor Draft Environmental Impact Statement. October 22, 2012.
The Wilderness Society and Center for Sustainable Economics economic assessment of the US Fish and Wildlife Service analysis of the proposed Izembek road and land exchange (May 17, 2012). This was distributed throughout the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of the Interior.
In 1998, Congress passed a law specifically prohibiting a road through designated Wilderness in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Despite this prohibition, Congress approved a bill in 2009 (P.L.
At the center of the 417,533-acre Izembek National Wildlife Refuge are two lagoons, Izembek and Kinzarof. These lagoons are separated by a narrow isthmus about three miles wide.
