Rep. Rob Bishop's Bill to Reform the Antiquities Act (H.R. 3990)

NATIONAL MONUMENTS LEAKED MEMO CHEAT SHEET

Supporting Information

Imperiled Wildlife Living in National Monuments Lands and Waters

California National Monuments at Risk: Factsheet

Maps:

 

 

Defenders of Wildlife Press Statements and Blogs

Statement on President Trump's Executive Order

Secretary Zinke's Recommendations on Bear's Ears a Monumental Mistake

Defenders' View: National Monuments Vital to Wildlife Conservation

Wild Without End: Trump Dumps National Monuments (Medium article)

National Monument Blog Archive

 

Defenders of Wildlife Comments on National Monuments

(Does not include all monuments included in the April executive order)

Defenders of Wildlife National Monuments Comments - Overall

Comments by State

Arizona

Grand Canyon-Parashant

Ironwood Forest

Sonoran Desert

Vermilion Cliffs

California

Berryessa Snow Mountain

Carrizo Plain

Mojave Trails

San Gabriel Mountains

Sand to Snow

Hawaii (marine)

Papah-ünaumoku-ükea

Pacific Remote Islands

Other Marine Monuments

Marianas Trench

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts

Rose Atoll

Nevada

Basin and Range

Gold Butte

New Mexico

Rio Grande Del Norte

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

Oregon

Cascade-Siskiyou

Utah

Bears Ears (comments pre-interim report)

Bears Ears (comments post-interim report)

Defenders Member Support for Bears Ears

Washington

Hanford Reach

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

Legal Intervention Aims to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales From Deadly Ship Strikes

Conservation groups today filed a motion to intervene to help fight a lawsuit aimed at overturning a seasonal speed rule protecting North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes. The groups want to defend the rule against a lawsuit brought by a New York vessel owner fined for violating seasonal speed limits. The suit alleges that NOAA Fisheries lacked the statutory authority to issue the rule.
greater sage grouse
Washington, D.C.

Final Rescission of Public Lands Rule Reverses Modern Land Management, Threatens Wildlife Habitat

The Bureau of Land Management today announced a decision to roll back the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, commonly referred to as the Public Lands Rule. The policy modernized how BLM manages our national public lands and represented the critical incorporation of ecological resilience into management alongside traditional resource extraction. The rule required science-based decision-making, conservation considerations within multiple land uses and a focus on sustaining public lands for the long-term benefit of wildlife and the American people.
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