Features: Our 2012 Initiatives
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WildEarth Guardians continues in 2012 to advocate for
wolves. Last April, Congress eliminated federal protection for wolves in the
Northern Rocky Mountains. Hunting in Idaho and Montana has resulted in 410
wolves killed this winter alone – yet, less than 1,300 wolves live in those two
states. Now Hollywood is inciting terror instead of instilling awe for this
beautiful and charismatic creature. Stand up for wolves and boycott “The Grey,”
a dangerously misleading film — take our boycott pledge today!
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In 2012 we’ll intensify our commitment to halt or slow down
the Interior Department’s efforts to massively expand coal mining in the Powder River
Basin, where nearly half of our Nation’s coal is mined. One example
is we’ll challenge every single new lease while working to overturn a
sweet-heart policy that prevents any competition for federal coal, keeping it
dirt-cheap. With climate policy in Congress going nowhere fast, we’ll continue
to target existing coal-fired power plants.
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Thanks to WildEarth Guardians’ 2011 settlement agreement,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now legally obligated to take action to
list more than 250 species, including nearly 100 species in 2012, from the
lesser prairie-chicken to the Gunnison sage-grouse. Unfortunately, we have
already seen the agency bow to pressure from the oil and gas industry and its
allies in Congress by delaying
listing the dunes sagebrush lizard. We will work to ensure the
agency produces timely and scientifically sound listing decisions in 2012.
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The campaign to protect
roadless national forests across the Nation received a boost in the final
quarter of 2011 when a federal judge reinstated the Clinton-era roadless rule
affecting 58.5 million acres. Building on our successful campaign in New
Mexico, we will focus on protecting waterways in roadless national forests in
Colorado. We will be working with allies to secure the “outstanding
waters” designation for hundreds of miles of streams throughout Southwestern
Colorado.
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Photo credits. Tree in Hands Slider: istock. Mexican Spotted Owl Slider: public domain. Greater Sage-Grouse Slider: photo.com. Grazing Slider: George Wuerthner. Volunteer Slider: istock. Thumbprint photos - Wolf: Ray Rafiti. Powder River Basin: Public Domain. Lesser Prairie Chicken: Jess Alford. Alpine River: istock.
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