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Uniting people to protect America’s wild places🌲🌊🏔
The administration took another big step in advancing a dangerous fossil fuel agenda that prioritizes oil and gas profits over the health and well-being of communities and public lands by repealing the EPA’s "endangerment finding".
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Across the West, schools, roads, and emergency services are still tied to fossil fuel revenue—leaving towns vulnerable when boom turns to bust. There’s a better way. Read more here:
https://bit.ly/4aIvULT
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Bust to Boom: How can communities thrive after oil and gas?
Decoupling helps build a resilient economy around public lands that’s no longer vulnerable to the whims of faraway markets and politicians looking to exploit our shared public lands for a quick buck.
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/bust-boom-how-can-communities-thrive-after-oil-and-gas
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BREAKING: The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next week to strip vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters, one of the nation’s largest and most visited wilderness areas. Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters:
https://bit.ly/4q5xagM
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Tell the Senate to defend the Boundary Waters!
The Senate could vote soon to revoke vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters.
https://act.wilderness.org/a/bwcra-senate-social
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“Sadly, ConocoPhillips will now spend the winter disrupting caribou migration and crushing fragile Arctic tundra under massive thumper trucks before a full hearing of our case against this destructive exploration plan,” said Matt Jackson, Alaska senior manager for TWS:
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
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As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues - Inside Climate News
When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the proposal was rushed through without adequate protections. Last week, an oil...
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
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In a new Compact op-ed, TWS President Tracy Stone-Manning shares what she learned running the Bureau of Land Management and why we must rebuild a system that protects clean water, wildlife, and our freedom to get outside for future generations. Read here:
https://bit.ly/4qHEdxa
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What I Learned Running the BLM
Picture this: America’s forests, rivers, and deserts—our beloved public lands—managed for the future and for all of us.
https://bit.ly/4qHEdxa
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Despite the recent collapse of ConocoPhillips’ largest mobile drilling rig and thousands of gallons of diesel spilled in the Western Arctic, a federal court has allowed the company’s winter exploration to continue, for now. Read more:
https://bit.ly/4brjmtg
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🚨The House has voted to overturn protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—opening the door to toxic mining in its headwaters. The Senate MUST stop this.
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🎉 Happy birthday to us 🎉 91 years ago today, a small group of conservationists gathered around a radical idea: protecting wild places for their own sake. Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has been a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places.
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Rep. Gabe Vasquez
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Roadless Rule. For a quarter century, it’s helped protect places like the Gila, keeping our national forests intact for hunters, anglers, families, and local communities. Public lands belong to all of us, and this rule helps keep them that way.
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Senator John Hickenlooper
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People across the West cherish our public lands. For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of our forests. In the face of Trump’s efforts to repeal this rule and sell our public lands, we’ll always keep fighting to protect these lands for future generations.
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Rep. Paul Tonko
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25 years ago today, the Roadless Rule was created to protect millions of acres of our national forests. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. USDA should listen to the hundreds of thousands calling to leave this rule in place to preserve public lands for wildlife & future generations.
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What is the roadless rule and why should you care about it?
What is the Roadless Rule? Why does it matter? And what does its rescission mean for some of our last remaining wild forests?
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/what-is-the-roadless-rule-and-why-should-you-care-about-it/
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Senator Martin Heinrich
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Today marks 25 years of the Roadless Rule. It’s an extremely popular conservation measure that protects many of your favorite hunting spots, hiking trails, biking routes, and fishing streams across the country. But now the Trump administration wants to repeal it.
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Today marks 25 years of the Roadless Rule.
YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
https://youtube.com/shorts/3nsL1kJYbJk
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Thank you, Senator Hickenlooper, for your leadership!
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎
12 months ago
“Donald Trump and his administration are attacking wind projects. They're attacking solar projects."
@kaine.senate.gov
called out Trump’s sham "energy emergency" for what it is: a giveaway to Big Oil that is killing jobs & raising costs for working families. "This is no emergency." 👇
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Senator Tim Kaine
12 months ago
Trump is the energy emergency—and he’s killing jobs and raising costs. My joint statement with
@senatorheinrich.bsky.social
regarding Republicans’ rubber-stamping of Trump’s war on affordable, American-made energy:
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Denali. Standing tall. 🏔️ The name Denali means ‘The High One’ in Koyukon Athabaskan, a name used by Indigenous Alaskans for centuries.
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🚨 The Eastern Hellbender needs your help! These salamanders keep waterways healthy but are disappearing due to habitat loss and pollution. Storms like Helene have worsened their decline. Help push for endangered status—submit a comment by Feb. 11!
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
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BREAKING: Just days after confirmation, Interior Secretary Burgum ordered expanded oil & gas leasing, lease reinstatement in the Arctic Refuge and potential rollbacks of Biden-era rules—including the Public Lands Rule.
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Burgum secretarial orders target monuments, give drilling favored status on public lands
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a series of secretarial orders that position drilling and mining interests as the favored users of America’s public lands and threaten to scrap existing land prot...
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/burgum-secretarial-orders-target-monuments-give-drilling-favored-status-public-lands
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The oil industry shrugs at Trump's effort to drill the Arctic Refuge. Analysts say the risk is too great, and U.S. oil production is already at record levels. Once again, it's clear there's no reason to have a federal leasing program for this special place.
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Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill
U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry representatives told Reuters, noting a future president could easily reverse Trump's move.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-industry-unlikely-rush-alaska-despite-trumps-call-drill-2025-01-23/
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President Trump signed a sweeping & destructive executive order on Monday that attempts to erase all Biden administration efforts to protect Alaska’s public lands, Indigenous communities & the climate. The order calls for developing the state’s natural resources “to the fullest extent possible.”
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As Dwight Schrute would phrase it, today is the anniversary of our 90th birthday!! 🎂 Since our founding in 1935, we have grown from a small group of conservationists into a leading national organization dedicated to protecting public lands and ensuring everyone has access to nature.
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🚨BREAKING: After pledging once again during his inaugural address to “drill, baby, drill,” President Trump signed a series of executive orders that seek to rapidly dismantle climate and conservation policies.
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MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC 🚨 The Bureau of Land Management just released a report recognizing the negative impact of oil development on caribou populations in the Western Arctic and highlighting the need for new Special Areas, which are off-limits to drilling.
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Me for the past few weeks since Benito released his album... 🎶 📸 TWS
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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court has declined to take up Utah's case seeking to "dispose" of public lands! Great threats continue to loom—but this announcement is a small bright spot.
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🚨 BREAKING GOOD NEWS: No companies, including Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, bid on a legally mandated oil and gas lease for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain—for the second time.
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Arctic Refuge lease sale flops, with zero bids offered
The federal Bureau of Land Management announced that no bids were submitted in response to a second legally mandated oil and gas lease sale for the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/arctic-refuge-lease-sale-flops-zero-bids-offered
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Nevada’s “Swiss Alps” are one step closer to being protected from oil and gas development to ensure a healthy future for its wildlife, clean air and mountain streams! A mineral withdrawal keeps these lands open to hunters, anglers and everyone else who seeks adventure and refuge in this wild place.
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Federal Agencies Move to Protect Nevada’s Ruby Mountains from Oil and Gas Leasing
The Department of the Interior initiates a withdrawal process to safeguard Nevada's Ruby Mountains from oil and gas leasing.
https://bit.ly/4grApLr
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Today, following reports of President Carter’s passing, The Wilderness Society issued statements remembering the 39th President of the United States for his tremendous contributions to conservation and environmental understanding. 📸 Ansel Adams
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Exciting news! 🎉 The Senate passed the
#EXPLOREAct
, a bipartisan recreation package improving outdoor access for youth, families, people with disabilities, veterans and underserved communities. It’s now headed to President Biden’s desk! 🌳✨ Learn more ⬇️
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Bipartisan EXPLORE Act Passes Both Chambers of Congress
The EXPLORE Act passed both chambers of Congress and is headed to the President's desk for his signature. The bipartisan recreation package will improve access to the outdoors for youth, families, peo...
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/bipartisan-explore-act-passes-both-chambers-congress
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Yesterday, President Biden designated the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Carlisle, PA. The designation acknowledges the painful and traumatic legacy of the Indian boarding school era and honors the resilience of Indigenous communities and Tribal Nations.
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President Biden designates Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
President Biden designated Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument, recognizing the harmful legacy of the Indian boarding school system and honoring Indigenous resilience.
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/president-biden-designates-carlisle-federal-indian-boarding-school-national-monument
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