Treehuggers International Heading to Sacramento for Parks Advocacy Day
Treehuggers International is heading to Sacramento on March 8th to put in a little face time with California state legislators to not only encourage lawmakers to keep California State Parks open, but to reject a proposal to eliminate public funding for parks with funding from controversial offshore oil drilling projects which may never be approved.
Federal Court Halts Timber Suit In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
In a victory for old-growth forests on public land, a federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a timber industry coalition which would have led to additional logging of old-growth areas in the Tongass National Forest, a 1,000-mile arc of temperate rainforest along Alaska’s southeast coast containing some of the most intact, oxygen-generating and climate-regualting forest on the planet.
David Edelson from the Wilderness Society
The Regional Director for the California and Nevada office of the Wilderness Society discusses current initiatives in the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains, and in northern San Diego County.
Solar vs. Wilderness In Mojave Desert Protection Act
There are a zillion places in Southern California where solar farms can be developed other than areas proposed for wilderness designation, like the roof of every massive warehouse and industrial park from the Inland Empire to the Coachella Valley, or the tens of thousands of acres of desert outside of cities and recreation, conservation, and military areas.
California State Parks Held Hostage By Big Oil
The latest dilemma facing the integrity of California State Parks can be found in Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal for the 2010-11 fiscal year, which includes a scheme to fund all 279 state parks from oil revenues collected from a long-delayed, controversial offshore drilling plan in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Houston Chronicle Endorses Big Bend Wilderness Designation
The Houston Chronicle steps up in support of wilderness designation for Big Bend National Park. Established in 1944, Big Bend is one of the nation’s largest national parks outside Alaska at over 800,000 acres, encompassing mountains, desert, and a southern boundary which makes it particualrly unique: following the sinuous course of the Rio Grande along the nation’s border with Mexico.
Time to End Interior’s ‘No More Wilderness’ Policy
While Congress and the Obama administration designated thousands of acres’ worth of new wilderness areas shortly after the new administration came into office, many of those wilderness areas were pulled together from proposals and plans drawn up by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management years, if not decades earlier. Why the wait?
Preserving San Diego’s El Capitan
Rob Hutsel from the San Diego River Park Foundation returns to Treehuggers International to discuss efforts to organize the purchase of 385 acres along the summit crest and base of San Diego’s own El Capitan.
