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Defending the West's Wildlife & Habitat

WELC's Wildlife & Habitat work

Grizzly bears ambling the open plains, rivers teeming with salmon, eagles soaring the sky, wolves howling throughout the night...abundant wildlife and protected habitat are symbols of the American West. But, the bountiful wildlife described in the journals of Lewis and Clark is a fading memory as developers and industry pollute and develop with inadequate restraint. The Western Environmental Law Center has collaborated with more than sixty organizations and tribes to defend this heritage, and protect animals and their habitat before they are gone forever.

MacDonald Pass: Protecting a Key Wildlife Corridor: The U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army National Guard are proposing to build a new biathlon training facility directly within an extremely important but narrow wildlife corridor on the continental divide.
Ensuring Responsible Energy Development in the Sagebrush Sea of the Powder River Basin: The Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming holds important energy and wildlife resources (in particular wildlife habitat within the Sagebrush Sea). To harmonize those resources, we’re pushing the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Basin’s wildlife resources by adopting a phased development management regime to protect core habitat and control the timing and location of development, preparing a comprehensive environmental analysis, and preventing unacceptable degradation.
VICTORY! WELC Saves Mexican Owl Habitat: "This was a complete victory for the Mexican Spotted Owl," stated attorney WELC attorney Matt Kenna.
VICTORY! Feds will reconsider protecting the vulnerable chub: Roundtail and headwater chubs are important indicator species for their current and historic habitat in the rivers of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
Keeping the Grand Canyon Wild!: We forced the Bureau of Reclamation to reassess the impacts of the Glen Canyon Dam on imperiled native fish species throughout the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River ecosystem.

Lynx in New Mexico Soon to Escape Legal Limbo: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is required to issue finding on petition to federally protect the lynx in New Mexico.
Lynx in New Mexico in Legal Limbo, Groups Sue to Protect the Rare Cats in the Southwest
Sportsman and Conservationists Strive to Preserve Critical Wildlife Corridor and Habitat on the Continental Divide.
WELC Sues Forest Service Over Attempts to Remove Protections for Wildlife Across the Country: WELC files suit on behalf of 14 conservation organizations
VICTORY! WELC Protects Wildlife, Birds and Habitat on Farms: We are thrilled to report that, in one of the quickest legal resolutions we've seen, WELC won a significant victory protecting habitat for wildlife on farmlands.

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