Mike Lee's legacy will be playing the role of the Grim Reaper when it comes to public lands. We all knew this was coming, but somehow it's still shocking 🌎
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Mexican gray wolves are rebounding 🐺🐾
Last year the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest grew by 33 bringing the wild population up to 319 individuals.
This is an amazing feat considering just three decades ago there were zero roaming the wild!
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4sj9xmx
If you love public lands and want to stay current on all the shenanigans this administration is up to, Wes Siler is a must read. 🌎
This is the innovation that cross-country skiing has long been searching for to break through to a mainstream sports audience
Neat way of framing climate change.
Did you know that way back in 1962 Big Oil bragged about the fact that they could melt 7 million tons of a glacier every day
They knew they were destroying our climate back in 1962
We are just beginning to pay the price as Big Oil profit $2.8 billion every single day as Earth #climate collapses
A program meant to expedite environmental review for logging was being abused?? No Wayyyyy!!!🙄
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30x30 aims to protect 30% of the planet by 2030. The recently enacted High Seas Treaty could help us achieve that for the ocean: https://therevelator.org/30x30-ocean/
The sudden temperature drop
Republicans in Congress are trying to force mining and gas extraction using a tool that has never been used for public lands management. The process could set the stage for a single lawmaker to undo any public land plan they don't like. And it looks like national monuments could be next. 🌎
Mountain Goats? Noooo!
An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park www.sfgate.com/national-par...
The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.
Remnants of a snow moon
Congress is up to it again. Look for sneaky language that would provide a less public way to sell off public lands in the coming year.
As Trump continues to try to shut down wind energy here at home while maligning it on the world stage, Europe is embracing it as a key instrument for not only decarbonization, but energy security at a time of rising geopolitical instability
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Saving threatened and endangered species is always really popular until the numbers are discussed. Here's a way to fund conservation and keep common species common. 🌎
Clear slopes and grey skies!! Making the most of winter!! ❄️
Just out by me - wolverines could be on their way to Colorado soon!
Let it snowww, let’s snow
Over 150,000 people visit the breathtaking #BoundaryWaters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern #Minnesota there every year, drawn to its vast network of pristine lakes and rivers, beautiful boreal forests, rare wildlife like #wolves and Canada lynx, and the sheer solitude of its unspoiled landscapes.
Not even wildlife refuges are safe under this Congress. In its first year, this administration and Congress have proven to be one of the most anti-public land cohort of leaders in recent history. 🌎
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Despite the update, this is a clear sign that republicans are trying, once again, to set the stage for a public lands sell off...
The biggest US solar-storage project yet takes shape in California.
Westlands Water District approved 21 gigawatts of solar and batteries on water-parched fields in the Central Valley, giving farmers a way to profit from fallow land.
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#California #Solar #Batteries
A federal court once again overturns the Trump admin's stop work order on Revolution Wind
Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the Dept of Interior's suspension order was 'arbitrary & capricious' in violation of federal law
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NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
“You’re basically holding a gun to your own head, saying you’re going to be forced now to develop fossil fuels at whatever price companies want to charge you,” Wielechowski said. “It’s time for Alaska to stop giving our resources away.”
BREAKING: the Trump admin is green-lighting Utah's attempt to assert control over 8 million acres of public land without a vote, notice or public input.
After failing to seize public lands outright, Utah is chipping away at at public land ownership at large.
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Breaking: Trump's pick to lead the BLM is a walking conflict of interest and an anti-environment extremist who's encouraged vigilantes to seize control of federal public lands. We’re sounding the alarm to Senate leaders.
Read the letter, signed by 81 orgs:
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