When did it become open season on our open spaces? First, Congress slashed conservation and environmental programs. Then we saw a backroom deal that stopped the BLM’s new Wildlands policy in its tracks.
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.
The oil and gas industry claims that the only way to address our country’s numerous energy issues is to open more public lands and waters to oil and natural gas drilling. What they don’t tell you is that drilling in America is already occurring at an astonishing pace and in a bewildering number of places. The facts below show that “more drilling” won’t solve America’s energy problems.
