Business owners and outfitters from the West reached out to House and Senate leaders to ensure they recognize how important wild lands protection is to the economy.
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.
67 elected officials from Arizona, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming signed a letter of support for Secretarial Order 3310 that was announced in December.
A letter was delivered to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee signed by the Directors and President's of more than 40 conservation groups engaged in protecting America's public lands.
In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, county officials from across the West highlighted their support of Secretarial Order 3310, calling for wild lands protection by the Bureau of Land Management.
On behalf of our thousands of members across Colorado, more than 20 Colorado organizations wrote BLM State Director Helen Hankins, to express support for Wild Lands Secretarial Order 3310.
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.