America is home to nearly 250 million acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Those acres fall outside of our National Parks, Forests and Wildlife Refuges.
After decades of calls to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we finally have an opportunity to help gain permanent wilderness protection for the refuge. For the first time ever, the U.S.
We have all seen it—the pictures, postcards, or movie scenes that feature the glowing beauty of the Grand Canyon. The steep-sided red canyon walls have mystified some and have piqued the curiosity of many. It has been and remains beloved by people all over the world.
What they aren't known for is the tremendous economic boost that they give to the American economy each and every year -- more than $1 trillion dollars (yes, with a T).
Developers can never again claim that residents of Alaska’s Lake and Peninsula Borough want them to build the dangerous Pebble Mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay.
In its latest issue, the scholarly engineering trade publication Electric Light and Power invited The Wilderness Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, and National Audubon to highlight the benefits for communities and wild places of putting energy and the electric transmission in the right
The Wilderness Society has joined a coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups in a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s decision to allow Shell to begin offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean next summer.
Opposition to the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay is growing to the point that one has to wonder who — outside of the mining companies — could still support the idea of an open-pit mine that would endanger a pristine watershed where tens of millions of salmon spawn
