The Great American Outdoors Act legislation fully and permanently funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and addresses priority repair needs in our national parks and other land management agencies. In June the Senate passed the act with a strong bipartisan vote of 73-25 and President Trump has said he supports the legislation. Disappointingly Senators Barrasso and Enzi both voted against the bill. ACTIONS TO…
Environment
The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded to six grassroots activists every year. This year they honor a dozen past Goldman Prize winners from indigenous communities who have devoted their lives to protecting sacred natural sites and territories. View the portraits of these remarkable leaders: A Recall to Basic Consciousness to Fight the Virus José Lucero with Thomas Banyacya at Mesa Verde…
Park County will soon have a natural resources management plan for its federal and state lands, and is inviting the public to participate in a steering committee that will help shape the plan. The County is currently in the process of completing their Natural Resource Management Plan (NRMP). Counties can be strongly impacted by federal land management decisions on public lands located within, or adjacent…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to keep the Clean Water Act intact, dealing a major loss to the Trump administration and its pro-polluter agenda. The fate of the nation’s clean water hung in the balance. The nation’s highest court has sided with clean water advocates in a decades-long legal dispute involving a wastewater treatment plant, its pollution discharges, and a partially dead coral reef in Hawaiʻi….
One of our missions is protection of the environment Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, we won’t be able to have a March for Science in April. Instead, we offer these online events for you to enjoy: Wyoming Rising is stepping up to shine a light on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with a film festival through Earth Day Network, running online April…
The ecosystem holding America’s first national park is facing whirlwind changes. The slowdown could be the wake-up call we need. by Todd Wilkinson, March 18, 2020 Republished with Permission from Mountain Journal We are a country, society and region unaccustomed to dealing with involuntary pause. We’ve been caught up in the race of progress and keep telling ourselves there’s no convenient time to…