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Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)
Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James on Vimeo. Is fear of the “Dirty Oil” label behind Canada’s tarring of Artist’s European tour? What lengths will the Canadian Government go to...
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She’s Alive . . .
She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage,...
View ArticleNational Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy
Please visit the website for The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, learn about this project, read the Public Review Draft and weigh in with your comments. The following...
View ArticleOpen Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death...
View ArticleDon’t Flush Tiger Forests
The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to...
View ArticleAn interview with Dave Foreman
NEW: Listen to Dave Foreman’s latest interview on the new Rewilding Earth Podcast! Roger Wendell and Dave Foreman enjoyed a lively conversation on “Connections”, which aired Friday morning March...
View ArticleGrand Canyon Wildlands Council Springs Assessments Volunteer Training – May 5
Please join the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council in a volunteer training for springs field assessments, preparing volunteers for 2012 springs trips this summer in the Coconino and Kaibab National...
View ArticleUrgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act Will Essentially Repeal the...
We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness...
View ArticleRepeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Heritage Act Will Essentially...
How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch “The purpose of...
View ArticleEND THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 WILDERNESS ACT: KILL HR 4089
Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration:...
View ArticleWild Utah Project needs your help!
HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with...
View ArticleLife on the Brink – Do People Have a Right to Take It All?
LIFE ON THE BRINK | Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a...
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Young Population Activist Bindi Irwin Stifled by Hillary Clinton Editors
Original post by Joe Bish of the Population Media Center Many of you may recall the 2006 death of Steve Irwin, an Australian wildlife expert,television personality, and conservationist known as the...
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Dave Foreman speaking in Cerrillos, NM
TRI TRI Read full article: Dave Foreman speaking in Cerrillos, NM
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Crosshairs on Yellowstone: Decaying Management In America’s National Park System
A new paper by Dr. Brian L. Horejsi, ecologist and wildlife scientist For Whose benefit? Beware the Legacy Builders. A Monster at Mammoth Cumulative Effects are Massing but impact analysis is AWOL....
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LOOKING FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
Dear Wildlovers, In 1997 I helped launch NMWA in the hope it could be a model for a new-style wilderness outfit that embraced rewilding principles. NMWA is now looking for a new ED and I am on the...
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Dave on Santa Fe Public Radio
A reminder that Dave Foreman’s program in Cerrillos, NM is fast approaching. We’ll begin at 2pm in the Cerrillos Hills State Park Visitor Center in beautiful ‘down-town’ Cerrillos, allowing time for a...
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Lucky Bobcat!
This situation doesn’t always work out this way for the wildlife caught in illegal traps. Great story as told by one of the rescuers. TRIThis situation doesn’t always work out this way for the...
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Dave Foreman Speaking in Michigan March 21st
Dave will give a lecture, open to the public, titled “Rewilding North America,” from 2 – 3:30 PM in Room 1030, the CB (CASL) Auditorium. Q&A time is included. For more information, please contact...
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Mexican Wolves 15th Anniversary Celebration!
Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Return of Mexican Gray Wolves to the Southwest Friday, April 5th 6 – 10 p.m. O’Niell’s 4310 Central SE in Albuquerque Almost 15 years after they were first...
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John Davis featured in video about TrekWest
TrekWest’s John Davis hikes solo through Arizona’s longest single mountain range His 35-mile trek through Chiricahua Mountains includes big peaks, lots of snow, and a premier wildlife corridor...
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Film Premier for “The Current” in Durango April 10
While the southwest is primarily a desert, more than 30 million people live here. In a few decades the region’s population will double while the amount of available water will decrease. Most of these...
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Wrenched: A Feature Documentary by ML Lincoln
Watch the trailer for “Wrenched,” coming soon. “Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who will carry Abbey’s legacy into the 21st...
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TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
Original post, April 15, 2013 on Defenders of Wildlife by Matt Clark, Southwest Representative If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of all of the...
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EARTH DAY 2013: TAKE ACTION FOR THE MANED WOLF
This text was copied from the World Land Trust-US website Project at a glance: Due to rapid habitat destruction, the Maned wolf in Bolivia is now facing extinction. To protect this endangered species,...
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Nationwide walks for wolves this weekend
Walk for Wolves has been organized to raise awareness about the threats affecting the wolf population throughout the United States. In addition to losing their habitat, the most detrimental threats...
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Congressional testimony of Dr. Dominik Kulakowski on the Depleting Risk from...
On April 11, 2013 Dr. Dominik Kulakowski, Assistant Professor at Clark University, testified before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources...
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Dave on Jefferson Public Radio
The Jefferson Exchange host Geoffrey Riley and Dave Foreman talk about rewilding in a broadcast from May 14, 2013. Good questions and comments from listeners!...
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The “New Conservation’s” Surrender to Development
by Brian Miller, Michael E. Soulé, and John Terborgh Abstract When a functioning ecological system is perturbed by human activity, processes are distorted and species diversity often declines. Research...
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Settlement Reached In Wolf Legal Fight
Conservationists help craft balanced plan; includes stronger legal standards, improved livestock husbandry, greater public accountability. Salem, Oregon – After seventeen months of grueling...
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Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Activist
Original post on Sea turtle Restoration Project website: http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=2485 Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Activist, Jairo Mora Sandoval, &...
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Wildlands Adventurer’s 5,000-Mile “TrekWest” includes northern New Mexico
This article originally appeared in the June 2013 edition of Green Fire Times Outdoor journey invites citizens to “say yes” to wildlife corridors Written By Kim Vacariu, Western Director, Wildlands...
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Big, Wild, and Connected – John Davis on his newly released book
Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:37 PM PDT on John’s TrekWest blog Big, Wild, and Connected: Wildlands Network and Island Press collaborate on Trek E-books “Was it really necessary to push myself across more...
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The Oregon & California Act Revisited: Peril vs Promise For Public Lands in...
by Paul F. Torrence A monster is rising from western Oregon, one that makes Frankenstein’s creation look like a pussycat. It is poised to further erode the biological integrity of at least 2.1 million...
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TrekWest Blog 35: Meandering Over Sandstone Substrates
Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:08 AM PDT More Rambles in Utah’s Grandest Monument so Far When Kim Crumbo suggested that diving a hundred feet down into a Calf Creek plunge pool, here in the heart of...
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Cougars at Wolverine Project and Good News for the Iberian Lynx
From the July 2013 Wild Cat News – International Society for Endangered Cats: The Alberta Conservation Association is undertaking a field study on the wolverine in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Their...
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TrekWest Blog #36: Easy Being Green
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 11:52 AM PDT A Week on Desolation, Gray, and Labyrinth Canyons, Green River, Utah, June “So there we were, a sun-baked bunch of veteran conservationists and river guides, paddling...
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Trek West Blog #37 – Exactly as We Want
Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:48 AM PDT “In addition to the words and still images here, a short video also shares with you the inspiring High Lonesome Ranch story…”Trail Break at High Lonesome Ranch in...
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Finding of Rare Gartersnake Underscores Need to Protect New Mexico’s Gila River
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on July 15, 2013 The northern Mexican gartersnake, thought to be extinct from New Mexico, was recently found...
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Job Notice: Wind Campaign Coordinator
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to address the impacts of wind development on birds. ABC supports wind power when...
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George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and let nature heal itself
George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and let nature heal itself – Technology & Science – CBC News 2013-08-04 Reposting of original article:...
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American Bird Conservancy Job Notice – International Conservation Program...
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to develop and direct bird conservation programs in Latin America and the...
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TrekWest Blog 39: Crafting a Wild Mosaic in the Upper Rio Grande Watershed
Posted: 21 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT Side trip to northern New Mexico, late June “It’s a sad irony, but one we need to acknowledge for the birds, that we have so upset Western hydrology that some of the...
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SPECIAL RALLY FOR WOLVES UPDATE!
Dear Rally attendees and supporters, Here’s a special update for The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves! that we know you’ll find both helpful and inspiring. The Rally is a week away and...
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TrekWest Blog 40: Viewing Vail Pass
Posted: 03 Sep 2013 05:16 PM PDT Vail Pass with Rocky Mountain Wild — August As the closing weeks of TrekWest find me further out and further out of reach than has been thus far, colleagues have...
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BLM Plans to Lease Wilderness-Quality Lands in San Rafael Swell
Recent posts from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website: As reported this week in the Salt Lake Tribune (8/20/13), The Bureau of Land Management’s November oil and gas lease sale is slated to...
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Earth Island Journal debate – will immigration reform hurt or help the...
The Autumn 2013 issue of Earth Island Journal offers readers the chance to vote and express their opinions about population and immigration issues. Please read Dave Foreman’s (The Rewilding Institute)...
View ArticleGreat Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for Communications Director
Wanted Full Time COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public...
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Yendegaia National Park Created!
YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12: Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra...
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YOU Can Make the Difference for Cougars in Nebraska!
From the Cougar Fund: We are approaching the final hurdles in the campaign to protect Nebraska’s very small cougar population from being ‘sport-hunted’. Today the Legislature passed LB 671 to repeal...
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