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Our organization is now working on the following issues. Please take action on as many of these as possible by clicking below

Endangered Species Act Reform: Critical Habitat
Critical habitat designations are among the most contentious requirements under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). After years of litigation, regulation and attempts by Congress to address the issue, there is momentum to substantially change how, when and why species' critical habitat are designated. ... Read More ...
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Stop EPA from Targeting Western Mining
EPA has tagged several Western states (those with significant mining operations) as the “worst polluters” in the nation. In its Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) report, EPA bureaucrats have broadened the reporting requirements to include the extraction and beneficiation of mineral resources, including "naturally occurring mineral compounds", known in the West as “rocks.” ... Read More ...
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Protecting Private Property Under ESA
However, actually getting relief under the Fifth Amendment for ESA-related activities has proven difficult for property owners. Determining what constitutes a taking and the appropriate remedies when it occurs have proven problematic for the courts. The federal government is rarely required to fairly compensate landowners for takings when ESA regulations and listings diminish the value of private ... Read More ...
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Help Clean Up Old Abandoned Mines in the West
An estimated 400,000 historic abandoned or inactive hard rock mine sites exist in the West. Some are polluting the surrounding land, water and air. For many of these sites, some dating back over 125 years, there are no identifiable owners or operators. Where responsible parties can still be located, they often don’t have the resources to remediate the sites. Given the age of many inactive and ... Read More ...
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Stop Out-of-Control Wilderness Designations
The 1964 Wilderness Act created the National Wilderness Preservation System. The Act gave Congress the ability to designate areas as wilderness. To date over 600 wilderness areas have been designated encompassing over 105 million acres. A wilderness designation effectively locks up land from any type of multiple use activities including: road construction, forestry, water storage and conveyance ... Read More ...
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We also work with many different organizations through the Partnership for America, a non-partisan, non-profit grassroots network that works on a wide variety of issues. You can review issues that the Partnership is working on by going to the issues link on the main menu.

Endangered Species Act Reform - Species Recovery
The Act needs to be reformed to place greater emphasis on recovery actions over bureaucratic listing actions. It must encourage the use of innovative approaches to increase species' populations. This can be done, in part, by moving the designation of critical habitat into the development of species recovery planning. ... Read More ...
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Oppose listing the polar bear as threatened under ESA!
Currently the Fish and Wildlife Service has undertaken analysis as to whether or not the polar bear should be listed as a threatened species. The Endangered Species Act uses five criteria for listing an animal, one of which is “present or threatened destruction, modification or curtailment of its habitat or range.” This specific criteria would be the justification for listing the polar bear as a t ... Read More ...
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Oppose Reinstatement of the Clinton Roadless Rule
One of the most worrisome developments to occur in public lands policy in recent years was the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Roadless Area Conservation Rule instituted by the Clinton Administration in 2001. The Clinton roadless rule proposed to permanently lock up 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas throughout the U.S. About 97 percent of all roadless areas would be in 12 ... Read More ...
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