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  • Create A Greater Yellowstone National Park

    George Wuerthner

    Old Faithful erupting, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Photo George Wuerthner  I just saw the movie Wild Life about Doug and Kris Thompkins’s efforts to protect wildlands in Patagonia. Doug and Kris Tompkins at Renihue Chile. Photo George Wuerthner  I am very familiar with that effort as I worked for Doug and Kris for more than…

  • Sutton Mountain–Could It Be The Next National Monument?

    George Wuerthner

    Sutton Mountain proposed National Monument lies along the John Day River in Central Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner  Thus far in his administration, President Biden has been sparing in his use of his executive authority to create national monuments. Even with his recent designation of the Avi Kwa Ame  NM in Nevada and Castner Range in…

  • Biden Designates Two National Monuments

    George Wuerthner

    Bighorn sheep petroglyph Bridge Canyon Wilderness within the new Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Photo George Wuerthner  Today President Biden used his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to create two new national monuments. The larger of the two, Avi Kwa Ame, in southern Nevada, encompasses 506,814 acres, while the Castner Range near El Paso,…

  • President Biden Set to Designate Avi Kwa Ame National Monument

    George Wuerthner

    The granite summit of Spirit Mountain in the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada. Photo George Wuerthner  President Biden appears ready to designate the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada. The monument will protect almost a half million acres of the Mohave Desert between the California border and the Colorado River. Stretching…

  • Livestock Grazing Impacts To Canyon of the Ancients National Monument

    George Wuerthner

    Lowery Ruins, part of the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. Photo George Wuerthner  Livestock grazing threatens the integrity of Colorado’s Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. Located in SW Colorado near Cortez,  President Clinton established the 176,000 acre Monument in 2000 to protect one of the highest concentrations of archeological sites in the West…

  • Pryor Bighorn National Monument?

    George Wuerthner

    The highest reaches of the Pryor Mountains are covered with alpine meadows. Photo George Wuerthner Billings, Montana has seen a steady increase in population and economic diversity. In all likelihood, Billings will continue to grow. At a modest average growth of 1.5 percent a year, Billing’s population will increase by more than 40,000 people in…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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