ICYMI ➡️ We're going to court to protect wolverines from extinction as a changing climate, indiscriminate trapping, and habitat loss threaten the survival of these remarkable mountain critters. https://thewesternnews.com/news/2026/feb/10/feds-sued-for-wolverine-management-failures/

We've defeated this illegal highway threatening the Mojave desert tortoise in court before, and we will defeat it again. Read more ⬇️ https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sued-utah-highway-conservation-area-b2914962.html

Sam Hitt, a true Forest Guardian, is currently working to safeguard the Southwestern white pine from extinction from a multitude of threats. “The cure for anxiety is action,” he said. “We can protect this beautiful tree from likely extinction.” https://loom.ly/4_HNsU0

🐢Why did the tortoise cross the road? 🛑 Trick question! It didn't because highways do not belong in critical habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise. #StopExtinction #ProtectRedCliffs https://loom.ly/8eDoD1Y

Concentrating 👏 toxic 👏 waste 👏 does 👏 not 👏 make 👏 it 👏 safer 👏 #KeepItInTheGround https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2026-02-09/report-shows-oil-gas-spills-new-mexico-decreased-volume-up

The latest on our #LegalVictory protecting Wyoming's air quality from harmful ozone pollution ➡️ https://wyofile.com/trumps-interior-secretary-takes-jurisdiction-over-case-that-reversed-3500-well-wyoming-gas-field/

The controversial Northern Corridor highway would run through critical habitat for the desert tortoise in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, which have already seen habitat degradation from wildfires and the spread of invasive species such as cheatgrass. https://loom.ly/velMRKo

If all goes smoothly, wolverine paws could be on the ground in Colorado in roughly two years! https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/wolverines-are-one-step-closer-returning-colorado

Roadless Areas are vital to Americans’ outdoors heritage. For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has kept critical forests wild and free. Now, the feds want to strip protections Explore the Roadless West ➡️ https://loom.ly/o0iEU2A 📹: Kathy Kipp, Blackfeet Tribal Member

💓🐺 This Valentine’s Day, we’re focused on wolves—because we love them! Hearing a wolf howl in the wilderness reminds us that someone else is out there, living free, in a way some innate part of us still remembers. It calls to us. 💝 Give a gift in support of wolves ➡️ https://loom.ly/GcgFHKs

The benefits of punching roads through protected backcountry forests are slim to none. The costs to wildlife, fish, and people are HUGE. We stood up for our public lands before and won. We can do it again. Join the fight to defend forests from exploitation ➡️ https://loom.ly/iDSHFbA

Communities across the West are already living with severe impacts. Rolling back climate protections only deepens the risks to our water, land, & public health. Guardians will continue defending the science, the law, and the public’s right to clean air and a stable climate. https://loom.ly/vK9fgk8

Record-breaking oil and gas production in the Permian Basin has also created record-breaking amounts of toxic waste, leading to problems with its disposal. ⬇️ The latest in New Mexico's oil and gas waste crisis 🔗 https://loom.ly/i0NcSWU

Ranking 2nd in oil production and 3rd in natural gas production nationwide, NM experienced tens of thousands of oil and gas spills in 2025. And did you know that between 2022 and 2025, the same 7 companies consistently ranked among the top spillers? Read the report ➡️ https://loom.ly/MYTrSS4

The Mojave desert tortoise should never be faced with a four-lane highway in it's critical habitat. We're taking legal action to ensure development doesn't destroy fragile desert lands designated for conservation and wildlife. https://loom.ly/mXAAuG4

TODAY! The New Mexico legislative session has begun, and we're starting it strong by standing up for our public lands! Please join us for the NM Public Lands Rally today from 2-4pm at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe. See you at the Roundhouse! https://loom.ly/SCVNiXs

A dangerous bill would eviscerate the ESA through a death-by-a-thousand-cuts attack, with an onslaught of rollbacks. H.R. 1897 is extinction by legislation — and we need your voice to stop it. Urge your representative to vote no on H.R. 1897. ➡️ https://loom.ly/I8euZIM

Steve Pearce for BLM director? Absolutely not. https://selloffsteve.org/

For grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies, connectivity is the key to true recovery. Delisting grizzlies would undo decades of progress and undermine the ultimate goal of recovery. They must remain federally protected. #BearsBelong https://loom.ly/DlvlyMc

Protecting the iconic Mojave desert tortoise is at the heart of our latest legal challenge to BLM's lawless attempt to decimate conservation lands in Utah's precious redrock country. More ➡️ https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-sued-over-highway-approval-through-utahs-red-cliffs/

Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit against Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (again) to protect public lands designated for conservation in southwest Utah. The proposed highway through critical Mojave tortoise habitat is narrow-minded, short-term thinking. Read more ⬇️ https://loom.ly/SgpaH6M

Oil and gas companies reported 38,153 spills in 2025, averaging 104 spills per day. The scale of pollution is staggering. Our new report shows that spilling is not a malfunction of the oil and gas industry — it is the industry. Read the report ➡️ https://loom.ly/Hebw0jA

The #EndangeredSpeciesAct has been the backbone of wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, but in the current Congress, a suite of bills threatens to weaken this vital law. Learn about 4 pieces of legislation to watch and find out how to take action today ➡️ https://loom.ly/WHad_P8

Despite its name, the Fix Our Forests Act would fast-track logging, weaken environmental safeguards, and do little to protect communities from wildfire or climate harm. [🔐paywalled article] ➡️ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/opinion/logging-bill-forests-james-hansen/

This is what it looks like to protect national forests ⬇️ https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/us-forest-service-clear-cut-provision-rejected/

More great local coverage from our #LegalVictory for forests and communities ➡️ https://kobi5.com/news/local-news/federal-court-voids-forest-service-loophole-for-large-scale-logging-292846/

We saw the U.S. Forest Service bypassing environmental review to expedite logging across vast, remote acreages of national forest and we sued. And we won. More ⬇️ https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/27/federal-judge-ends-oft-used-exemption-to-environmental-review-for-logging-on-federal-land/

The current administration needs to know: Repealing the Roadless Area Conservation Rule would not be in the long-term interest of the American people, the National Forests or communities across the country. Read the powerful statement in defense of the #RoadlessRule ➡️ https://loom.ly/UVS6aEU

Long-time Guardians member Kathleen Kavarra-Corr shares a study that might be interesting to folks who live in or enjoy Utah’s canyon country ⬇️ https://www.upr.org/show/st-george-storycorps/2026-01-05/st-george-storycorps-what-happened-to-the-cottonwoods-in-zion-canyon

Tomorrow, Wyoming faces an inflection point for defining justice in the relentless and cruel war on wolves. We'll be watching. https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/wyomings-reckoning-does-the-law-permit

As the Trump administration looks to remove protections for other species, like grizzly bears and gray wolves, the federal government has stalled in its plans to save wolverines. #StopExtinction https://dailymontanan.com/2026/01/23/groups-sue-federal-government-for-failure-to-protect-wolverines/

Science tells us what we need to have a healthy, thriving, resilient lobo population: 750 wolves at a minimum, dispersed across three interconnected sub populations of 200 wolves. But, a recent survey count estimates there are around 286 wolves in New Mexico and Arizona. https://loom.ly/lnccfrg

Our latest #LegalVictory under the Clean Air Act is not political. It's about math. You measure air pollution and the math doesn't lie. Our win simply requires federal agencies to follow the law as written, show the math, and protect Wyoming's air and land. https://loom.ly/ah2-Bd8

Did someone say "conflict of interest"? #KeepItInTheGround #ClimateJustice https://sourcenm.com/2026/01/22/new-mexico-lobbyists-are-playing-both-sides-on-climate/

We're suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for wolverines. The snow-loving mustelids were listed as threatened in November 2023, primarily because of the effects of climate change. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/ZwaYt2w

Grizzly bears are icons of the Northern Rockies, and yet Yellowstone's grizzly bears have faced record mortalities two years in a row. With increasing threats to species recovery, grizzly bears need Endangered Species Act protections more than ever! #BearsBelong #KeepGrizzliesProtected

Guardians' latest #LegalVictory for climate and health (not to mention public lands and wildlife) halts a 3,500-well gas field in a swath of high desert in western Wyoming that contains some of the most intact sagebrush-steppe remaining in the world. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/lGpBL0o

Disgusted, but not surprised, that Trump's BLM is bending over backward to put a highway through the Red Cliffs and ruin an astonishing natural treasure. We’ll keep fighting, regardless of how long it takes to overcome this short-sighted plan for the highway. https://loom.ly/F69IDIg

Step into the Gila with Leia Barnett, New Mexico conservation lead with WildEarth Guardians, on the latest blog about Guardians' campaign to protect this wild and rugged landscape for future generations of people and the more-than-human world ➡️ https://loom.ly/T57jrho

Taylor, a Mexican wolf famous for defying a federal rule banning wolves north of Interstate 40, was found dead near Grants, NM. Taylor’s tragic death reminds us that lobos need more from state and federal wildlife agencies if they are to truly recover and thrive as a species. https://loom.ly/ypcpOJQ

Our recent legal victory for communities and forests across the country is making waves for calling the U.S. Forest Service's bluff on wildfire misinformation being used as an excuse to sidestep environmental protections to expedite logging. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/RLF1HKk

The Clean Air Act is a key safeguard for public health and the environment. WildEarth Guardians is in it for the long game and our recent victory stopping 3,500 oil and gas wells from polluting Wyoming's sagebrush sea shows why we keep fighting. https://loom.ly/By2NDGA

BREAKING: Huge news for clean air & public lands in Wyoming 🎉 After a seven-year legal challenge, the Interior Board of Land Appeals overturned BLM’s approval of a massive 3,500-well fracking project in the Upper Green River Basin for violating the Clean Air Act. More ➡️ https://loom.ly/qeUxICE

From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring, It took 19 years to establish #MLKDayOfService. For nearly two decades, civil rights leaders worked hard to successfully promote public service nationwide. Today should always be a free park entrance day, where their legacies are remembered.

Former New Mexico congressman Steve Pearce built his wealth in the oil and gas sector. Now, President Donald Trump wants him to lead the country’s largest land management agency, where he would regulate a fossil fuel industry he profited from. substack.com/@chrismdange...

With only about 300 wolverines remaining in the Lower 48 states, time is of the essence to protect this iconic, essential wildlife and the habitats they rely upon ➡️ https://www.eenews.net/articles/enviros-sue-to-secure-esa-critical-habitat-for-wolverines/

In a major win for communities, forests, wildlife and water supplies nationwide, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a decades-old exemption to approve large logging projects without environmental review. Read more about this #LegalVictory ➡️ https://loom.ly/2Ci5iiE

[Lawsuit filed ✅] Yesterday, wildlife advocates filed a complaint against USFWS for failing to designate critical habitat for wolverine. Only about 300 wolverines remain in the Lower 48. Without protected critical habitat there is no future for the intrepid wolverine. https://loom.ly/VgcNlLw

Yesterday, a federal court in Oregon ruled that USFS unlawfully created & applied a categorical exclusion to approve large-scale commercial logging projects. This ruling is a tremendous victory for forests and communities across the country. Read more about the case ➡️ https://loom.ly/HMUJyko

In a Roadless Area, you'll find the quiet, unbroken backcountry where rivers spring from high peaks, forests grow undisturbed into mature and old-growth stands, and wildlife roams freely across intact ecosystems. Explore some of our favorite Roadless Areas across the West ➡️ https://loom.ly/iDSHFbA