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Defenders Strongly Opposes USDA Proposal to Dismantle Long-Standing Protections for National Forests
The United States Department of Agriculture today announced that the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to fully rescind the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule — a bedrock conservation policy that has protected nearly 45 million acres of undeveloped backcountry forests for over two decades.
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Defenders Joins Conservationists In Blasting Federal Proposal to Bulldoze Forestlands
Conservation groups today called a plan by the Trump administration to rescind the U.S. Forest Service’s Roadless Area Conversation Rule an alarming threat to national forests that are overwhelmingly loved by Americans.
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Defenders Joins Over 100 Conservation Groups Opposing Wilderness Rollbacks
The public was forced to navigate five separate comment processes across three federal agencies as the Department of the Interior launched a sweeping review of longstanding policies protecting millions of acres of America’s wildest public lands.
Press Releases
Defenders of Wildlife and Natural Resources Defense Council Support Biologists’ Recommendations to Remove Intake Dam on the Yellowstone River to Save Pallid Sturgeon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 12, 2016 Media Contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife: ctresky@defenders.org or (202) 772-0253 Margie Kelly, Natural Resources Defense Council: mkelly@nrdc.org or
Draft Federal Gunnison Sage-Grouse Plan Raises Concern for Species’ Recovery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2016 Media Contact: Catalina Tresky, ctresky@defenders.org or (202) 772-0253 Draft Federal Gunnison Sage-Grouse Plan Raises Concern for Species’ Recovery WASHINGTON
Environmental Groups Ask California Officials to Save Endangered Fish in San Francisco Bay Estuary from Extinction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2016 Media Contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife, 202-772-0253 or ctresky@defenders.org Kimiko Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council, 310-434-2344 or kmartinez@nrdc.org
Depredations Lead to Removal of Profanity Peak Wolf Pack Members in Washington
Depredations Lead to Removal of Profanity Peak Wolf Pack The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has identified at least seven cattle depredations (four
New Rule Conserves Carnivores on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska
Jennifer Witherspoon (202) 772-0269 jwitherspoon@defenders.org New Rule Conserves Carnivores on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska WASHINGTON (August 3, 2016) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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