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© USFWS/Gary Kramer ALASKA: The 9.34 million acres of inventoried roadless areas in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is now protected, once again, by the Roadless Rule…We were able to celebrate completion of a successful decadelong restoration of damaged salmon habitat in the Tongass’s Harris River watershed… Our coalition continued to fend off efforts to allow drilling in the biological heart of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s new draft management plan for the refuge has opened the door to considering a wilderness recommendation for the coastal plain. FORESTS: The government agreed with our contention that a BLM plan calling for excessive logging in the Pacific Northwest forests should be shelved, and is now determining the best way to proceed… Proposed changes in rules governing the 193-million-acre National Forest System would result in cleaner drinking water, greater recreational opportunities, improved wildlife habitat, and, for the first time, consideration of climate change… A ten-year effort paid off at Colorado’s White River National Forest in a plan that will minimize the impact of snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles and will eliminate unnecessary roads... Thanks to settlement of our coalition’s lawsuit, 900,000 acres Achievements Working with a broad array of partners over the past 12 months, we have succeeded in protecting many important natural areas. As always, the support provided by members of The Wilderness Society was invaluable. The success stories include: of roadless land in four Southern California national forests will receive greater protection… The U.S. Forest Service launched an initiative to substantially scale back its immense and decaying road system. WILDLIFE: Ruling in our favor, a federal court put the West Virginia northern flying squirrel back on the Endangered Species List, improving our prospects for preventing a large-scale logging project in the Monongahela National Forest… We played an active role in a state-andfederal decision to shelve a plan to allow the killing of wolves in a Unimak Island wilderness area in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Our forest accomplishments included watershed restoration in the Tongass (below) and motorized vehicle regulation in the White River National Forest (right). © Sheila Jacobson/USFS © Fred Hanselmann/hanselmannphotography.com 4 1-800-THE-WILD
ENERGY: We secured greater protection of water quality and other environmental safeguards in settling our lawsuit challenging oil shale development policy for public lands in the Rockies…The Interior Department moved closer to developing a national Smart from the Start renewable energy framework for development of solar energy on public and private lands, in part due to coalition efforts to bring diverse stakeholders together in support of these efforts.… The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a rule on planning and financing new transmission lines that, if implemented properly, should reduce impacts on important natural areas and should facilitate renewable energy production. www.wilderness.org OFF-ROAD VEHICLES: We helped defeat an attempt to overturn a Forest Service plan to protect the Badger-Two Medicine, near Glacier National Park, from off-road vehicle damage... We won our lawsuit challenging a plan for Idaho’s Salmon-Challis National Forest that we believe allowed too much offroad vehicle traffic. OTHER VICTORIES: We played a leading role in defeat of an amendment that would have significantly weakened the Antiquities Act, used by 15 presidents to protect places such as Grand Teton and Acadia national parks… President Obama issued an America’s Great Outdoors report recommending a number of valuable ways to promote outdoor recreation and protect natural areas… We helped secure congressional appropriations from the Land and Water Conservation Fund that will enable the protection of high-quality—but threatened—natural areas in dozens of states. The places that will benefit include Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument… We helped defeat an amendment that would have defunded the National Landscape Conservation System. New rules will increase protection of our national forests (top), and we had a hand in a decision that will limit future off-road vehicle damage in the Badger Two- Medicine (below). © Bill Hodge © Jared White 5
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Page 15 and 16: The Final Frontier By Marilyn Berli
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