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Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale issued a decision giving Advocates for the West a sweeping victory in our case challenging the U.S. Air Force’s plans to indefinitely conduct urban warfare training involving F-15 fighter jets and plain clothes ground teams in Boise and other southern Idaho cities and towns.  “I’m delighted with Judge Dale’s decision,”…

Advocates for the West is challenging the Trump Administration’s reckless land use plan for the Uncompahgre region of western Colorado in a new lawsuit. The plan opens vast areas – including the prized North Fork Valley – to oil and gas drilling and fails to protect wilderness-quality public lands, wildlife habitat and other valuable natural resources. …

Advocates for the West is working with Conservation Lands Foundation, Conserve Southwest Utah and other allies in an effort to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from punching a four-lane highway through an area acquired for the purposes of conservation and recreation in southwest Utah’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA). BLM’s own environmental review…

The Confluence Project is a collaboration between contemporary landscape painter Rachel Teannalach and Advocates for the West. We are working in tandem to advocate for the Pacific Salmon and the elaborate river and ocean ecosystems of which it is a part. This collection of over 24 paintings follows the migration route of the Pacific Salmon from Stanley River…

Twenty-six wolves killed—including the Profanity Peak Pack—due to agency’s continued preferential treatment for livestock grazing over coexistence with wildlife. Advocates for the West filed suit yesterday over the U.S. Forest Service’s inaction to protect gray wolves in Washington’s Colville National Forest, where livestock ranching activities have incited conflict. The agency’s negligence has resulted in the deaths…

Advocates for the West recently filed our opening brief in a case to protect four herds of bighorn sheep that occupy habitat in close proximity to the Wishbone allotment in Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest. The Forest Service knew that grazing domestic sheep within the allotment threatened to infect these bighorn herds with deadly pathogens, yet still authorized grazing in the area. Domestic sheep carry a pathogen that causes pneumonia…

Get the latest on what Advocates for the West is doing to protect and defend the West’s public lands, water and wildlife. Read here.

EPA Finally Releases Plan to Protect Wild Salmon in Columbia and Snake Rivers In response to our recent Ninth Circuit Court win, this week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally released its much-anticipated plan (called a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL) to control heat pollution in the Columbia and Snake rivers. EPA’s plan is further evidence that removing the…

On Monday, the U.S. District Court in Idaho revoked the Forest Service’s approval of the Kilgore Project and stopped Canadian mining company Otis Gold Corp. (now Excellon Resources Inc.) from moving forward with gold exploration near the Centennial Mountains by the town of Kilgore, Idaho. The area contains a critical wildlife corridor on the Idaho-Montana…

In a position that is unusual for us, Advocates for the West is helping defend a winter travel plan issued by the U.S. Forest Service that regulates snowmobile use in Central Idaho.  The Fairfield Ranger District on the Sawtooth National Forest completed a winter travel plan that allowed for significantly increased public snowmobile use in the north…