We can protect wildlands and wildlife, as well as facilitate responsible renewable energy development, when we guide solar projects to Solar Energy Zones.
In a letter to Doc Hastings, Chairman of House Committee on Natural Resources and Edward Markey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, The Wilderness Society President William H. Meadows sent words of support for Secretarial Order #330 announced in late December 2010.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 gave the Bureau of Land Management authority to inventory its lands for wilderness characteristics and protect those values by designating wilderness study areas.
On December 23, 2010, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new policy that requires the Bureau of Land Management to inventory its lands for wilderness characteristics and protect those values.
This petition to Interior Secretary Salazar was submitted to the Department of the Interior on May 5, 2010 regarding the need to reconsider Arctic Ocean exploration drilling plans for 2010.
The main threat to water quality in many national forests is the Forest Service’s vast and crumbling road system, an environmentally-harmful vestige of the agency’s industrial logging era.
With The Wilderness Society’s strong support, Congress has stepped forward with new funding to address the problem, including $90 million in the Forest Service’s FY 2010 budget for urgent road decommissioning and repairs.
This letter was sent to Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Interior, on November 17, 2008 by The Wilderness Society and five other organizations. The letter notifies the Secretary that the Department of Interior refused to provide the public with an opportunity to protest or comment on resource management plan amendments for oil shale and tar sands leasing and production.
