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Center for Biological Diversity: Failure to Protect Mature, Old-Growth Trees From Logging Risks Global Credibility

As world leaders gather to address the climate crisis, U.S. land management agencies are undermining President Joe Biden’s commitment to conserve mature and old-growth forests and trees by logging thousands of acres on public lands that serve as climate-saving carbon sinks, according to a new report.

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A federal court in California has restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf after they were eliminated by the Trump administration in 2020.

The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests will be hosting its annual Public Field Trips for the Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project (Taylor Park) and the Spruce Beetle Epidemic and Aspen Decline Management Response (SBEADMR) project July 20 and July 22, respectively. These field trips provide an opportunity for interested individuals to participate in discussions and engage with GMUG staff, adaptive management group members and science teams on topics including the ...

Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management over St. Georges Northern Corridor Highway project. The plan to pave a 4-lane, 4.5 mile road across land that had been designated as protected habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise was approved late in the Trump administration, in what environmentalists say was a rushed and illegal move. The plaintiffs, led by the local nonprofit Conserve Southwest Utah, take issue...

BLM seeks teacher for summer Teacher on Public Lands internship PHOENIX – The Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office is seeking a valley teacher (K-12) for the Teacher on the Public Lands, Hands on the Land summer internship program. The teacher intern will be working remotely at home and periodically at the Pueblo Grande Museum during their summer internship. The internship will last for eight weeks between June and August 2021 for a total of 160 hours at the discretion of the teache...

Save this story for later. Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. The blizzard of federal climate initiatives last week (a blizzard that might help allow actual blizzards to persist into the future) is without precedent. For the first time in the thirty-plus years of our awareness of the climate crisis, Washington roused itself to urgent action; veterans of the cautious Obama Administration—the domestic cl...