"Gosar's bills mark a new low in his career of servicing industry's interests over the public's," said Taylor McKinnon, Southwest director with the Center for Biological Diversity. via @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com, @tucsonsentinel.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

A new bill in the U.S. House seeks to abolish the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. The monument honors Tribal Nations, protects sacred lands, and reflects the will of the people: thttps://buff.ly/yTVYymT

Here, a new account of C. Hart Merriam's biological survey of the San Francisco Peaks. May, Roy Jr. 2024. The Merriam Expedition to San Francisco Mountain: Life Zones and the Founding of Ecology. Journal of the Southwest. Vol. 67, No. 4, 391-555. muse.jhu.edu/article/961009

For those interested in Southwestern forest fire ecology, this presentation on the structural legacies of moderate severity fire in ponderosa pine forests is both informative and worth watching. youtu.be/kfzRZxorQAU?...

Biodiversity Battle in the Borderlands: I recently spoke with Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social from @biologicaldiversity.org. Hear stories about Jaguars, Ocelots, Bears, a huge number of bird species, and what you can do to help protect them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ech...

The Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres of roadless national forests since 2001. But now, the Trump administration wants to strip protections from 45 million of those acres. The public comment period is only open until Sept. 19th. Please add your voice ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IeiP1D

The Center today filed a 671-page notice of intent to sue federal agencies to end chronic, multi-year, and often severe damage from cattle grazing to almost all of the streamside critical habitat for endangered species on the Tonto National Forest. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

If you love birds, here's something you can do to protect their habitat. The US Forest Service is proposing to open 45 million acres of national forests to road bulldozing and commercial logging. Here's how to fight back. #birds. www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/8/...

Breaking: Trump's DHS waives all enviro laws to wall off premier Texas Wildlife Refuge. There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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We were thrilled to interview Elise Bennett on last month's Animal Law Podcast, and we are even more thrilled to hear this incredible news! Listen to the details of the case: ourhenhouse.org/alp122

Following a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, a federal judge today ordered Florida and the Trump admin. to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, and begin winding down operations at “Alligator Alcatraz” in Big Cypress National Preserve. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PHOENIX— The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction today blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat over to a private mining company while three lawsuits challenging the land exchange proceed. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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The Center yesterday petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Willcox Playa tiger beetle under the Endangered Species Act. The endemic beetle is threatened by climate change, water diversions, and groundwater pumping that are drying the playa. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Good news 🎉 Endangered Mexican gray wolf, Asha, has been released into the wild along with her mate and pups. Asha twice roamed north of Interstate 40 in New Mexico before being captured and kept in prolonged captivity for having strayed beyond the arbitrary boundary. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/45xxPPY

The Center and allies have won a temporary restraining order on further construction of "Alligator Alcatraz." Our fight to put an end to this destructive and unjust project goes on. The Everglades should be home to wildlife, not prisons. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4fvbmYn #AlligatorAlcatraz

The New York Times today featured the Center for Biological Diversity's recent report about and litigation challenging newly proposed border wall that would sever the most important migration corridor for wildlife like jaguar between Arizona and Mexico. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...

Fourth lawsuit launched to challenge the land transfer of Apache sacred site to Resolution Copper.

On the heels of our recent Bendire's thrasher petition, the Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the LeConte’s thrasher under the Endangered Species Act. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

I talked to @deedaseed.bsky.social, who is among those suing Utah over its handling of the Great Salt Lake. "We’re facing a crisis of our own making here and we can unmake it," she said, calling on everyone to consider how they use water: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18

BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.

We just sued the Trump administration for waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region. More info: biodiv.us/462nspc

The Center joined thirty-five other conservation groups to send a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate and their five puppies. More info: biodiv.us/4eFtqyp

Good news today: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service to make a long-overdue decision on whether to expand critical habitat for Arizona’s highly endangered Mount Graham red squirrels. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Good news 🎉: A century after wolves were wiped out in California, the iconic animals have mounted a promising comeback in the state, with a small population that has grown to at least 50 wolves, according to a new California Department of Fish and Wildlife report. Learn more: biodiv.us/4kjV4SM

A report published today by the Center for Biological Diversity exposes how the Trump administration’s plans for new border wall in southeast Arizona's San Rafael Valley would block the most important remaining jaguar corridor connecting the U.S. and Mexico. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

KFA This fight isn’t over, and there’s still a ton of corruption in this bill, but this is good news nonetheless. Thanks to each if you who made calls and sent emails. You made the difference; this is your victory. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Well, there’s a political majority of the American West mobilized right now against public lands sell-off.

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to sneak the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history into the Senate budget bill. We're not gonna let that happen, and thought we'd remind him of that with a full-page ad in his state's paper of record:

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Mike Lee is back with another attempt at a public lands heist. His new language in the Senate budget bill would open up over a million acres of BLM land around Arches, Zion, Organ Pipe and even the Grand Canyon to permanent "disposal." No way, buddy.

AMAZING turnout in Santa Fe to protect our cherished public lands from disposal. Senate Republicans want to liquidate our favorite campsites & hiking trails so billionaires can build private playgrounds & lock the rest of us out. Not on our watch.

Breaking: We're running full-page ads in Mike Lee's home state of Utah & neighboring Colorado slamming his disgraceful attempt to liquidate our cherished public lands. We won't let Lee & his developer buddies turn our public lands into private playgrounds for billionaires.

The Center for Biological Diversity is running full-page ads in the Denver Post and Salt Lake Tribune today blasting Senate Republican efforts to liquidate millions of acres of public lands across the West. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Southern Arizona developments face lawsuit over federally reserved groundwater. Fifty-five southern Arizona subdivisions have been illegally siphoning water from federally protected wetlands since at least 2006, conservationists say in a new lawsuit. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Yes, more roads = more fire risk. In fact, where I live, Coconino NF stage two fire restrictions now in place *actually close roads* to motorized use because that use *causes wildfires* and those fires have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in post-fire flood damage in and near Flagstaff.

Check out this site if you're interested in viewing where your state's portion of the ~60 million acres of Forest Service roadless lands being opened up for logging and road building. www.fs.usda.gov/managing-lan...

“Our cherished #publiclands are the backbone of the West and the core of our identity as Americans. It’s disgusting that anyone would back this plan to permanently privatize and bulldoze these beautiful places,” said Laiken Jordahl, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center. Take action. ⬇️⬇️

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"100 organizations delivered a letter to the 19 state leaders at the WGA conference, urging them to oppose the legislation, which would allow an unprecedented disposal of public lands “with no environmental review, meaningful Tribal consultation, or public input.” sourcenm.com/2025/06/23/p...

PRESS RELEASE: We're proud to lead more than 100 groups urging Western Governors to reject the biggest public lands sell-off in history. Govs' annual meeting is today in Santa Fe. We call on each governor to publicly oppose the sell-off before meeting ends. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The Western Governors’ meeting starts tomorrow, and guess who’s keynoting? Sec. Doug Burgum—the guy working with Sen. Lee to auction off the West’s cherished public lands. This sell-off is an assault on the West’s identity. These governors should boo him off the stage, not roll out the red carpet.

Matt Yglesias is a poster child for the unprincipled nature of American centrism--an approach that, under the false guise of "pragmatism," reinforces the status quo of corruption, extractivism, & destruction that gave us Trump 2.0 & cannot lead us from its ruins.

The 9th Circuit ruled yesterday that EPA must consider new prevention technology when updating water pollution standards for seven industries - petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturers, and plastic, fertilizer, pesticide, and nonferrous metal factories. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The Center for Biological Diversity and San Pedro 100 sued Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke today for failing to review adequate water supply designations for 55 Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista-area subdivisions. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

I know that everything's a lot right now but please call your reps about this. Once our public lands are sold off we'll never get them back.

Here's Senator Mike Lee overtly lying about his despicable plan to permanently sell off 250 million acres of our public lands so billionaires can build their 14th vacation mansion. He swears he's not selling off your favorite campsite--he's just gutting the rest of the West.