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Every 30 seconds, a football field worth of America’s natural areas disappears. The loss poses both an environmental and a spiritual threat to people and the planet.  That is why faith leaders are joining with scientists to support the goal that the United States should protect at least 30% of the oceans and land by 2030. It’s called the Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature. The loss of wild places increases the impact of a changing climate and threatens community prosperity, drin...

March 5, 2021 Democrat representative of New Mexico, Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of the Interior, began her confirmation hearing last week on Tuesday, Feb. 23 and completed it on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Conservative democrat of West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin, is the deciding vote in Haaland’s confirmation, and he has expressed support for her appointment; if confirmed, she will be the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet.  Leaders in Native gov...

Rep. Deb Haaland, nominated to lead Interior Department, draws praise from Nevada tribal leaders Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/27/2021 Amy Alonzo, Reno Gazette Journal In 2018, Deb Haaland made history as one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. Haaland is making history again as the first Native American nominated for a federal cabinet position — and Nevada’s tribal leaders are celebrating the moment. President Joe Biden tapped Haaland, a two-time New Mex...

NPCA sent the following letter of support to the United States Senate ahead of the hearing to consider the nomination of Deb Haaland for Secreatary of the Interior.  Our national parks are symbols of conservation, historic preservation and heritage we share with all Americans. In the last four years, as we witnessed weakened protection for cultural resources, wildlife, waterways and the list goes on, the highest level of protection was not afforded to these incredible places. We can and must d...

Land Trust Alliance Statement on the U.S. President’s 30x30 Executive Order Share Article ‘This Is an Audacious and Timely Conservation Challenge’ The nation’s land trusts are ready and willing to help private landowners conserve their lands at this ambitious scale. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) January 27, 2021 The Land Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization working to save the places people need and love by stren...

“A pause on drilling and fracking is good news, but only if it is followed by a strong plan to permanently ban all dirty energy extraction on public lands,” Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said Tuesday in a statement responding to Biden’s forthcoming moratorium. “The simple truth,” Hauter added, “is that we need to stop drilling and fracking everywhere, as soon as possible. The federal government has the power—and the moral responsibility—to get off fos...

It isn’t far-fetched to say some Aspen environmentalists cried tears of joy when Joseph Biden replaced Donald Trump as president on Tuesday. The staff at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies couldn’t watch the ceremony together because of the pandemic, but they shared a sentiment. “The mood was elation,” ACES President and CEO Chris Lane said. “We all watched the inauguration and cried.” A photographer takes a picture of the namesake geologic feature in the Bears Ears National Mon...

Climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates commended the decision to put the progressive Native American congresswoman from New Mexico in charge of the department overseeing 500 million acres of federal land—calling the move promising for the responsible development of clean energy infrastructure and for the reversal of the fossil fuel industry’s harmful legacy of extraction and pollution on land belonging to the U.S. public and tribal nations. “This is a big deal,” tweeted Rep. Al...

Support ‘Thirty by thirty’ to save nature Letter Share Growing up, Maine was always a wilderness to me — a place blanketed by trees, populated by moose and a few hardy souls. Later, I learned that was not exactly true (after all, there are deer too). In all seriousness though, visiting the mountains and forests of Maine made me realize that this is where I wanted to be. But things are changing. Across the nation, we are losing our wild places, little chunks of ourselves bit by bit. As en...

to mitigate the climate crisis and slow species loss. But today Colorado is losing open land faster than we’re protecting it: Over a half-million acres of natural lands were lost to development since 2001. Fortunately, a coalition of conservation groups has developed a detailed roadmap to preserve 30% of Colorado’s lands (an additional 14 million acres) by 2030. Working with lawmakers, land managers, tribes, and private landowners, the “Colorado Pathways to 30-by-30” proposal utilizes ...