In late February the United States Congress passed S. 47, a far-reaching, bipartisan public lands bill also known as the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,… Read More »The John Dingell Jr. Act’s Wild & Scenic Rivers
At this point, if you’re like us, you’re probably inundated by requests to file public comments for important environmental issues. Non-profit organizations have been joined… Read More »The Refuge and the Draft EIS, Part 3: Do Public Comments Help?
This post is part two in a series on the Draft EIS. Our goal is to explain and contextualize the Draft EIS to allow our… Read More »The Refuge and the Draft EIS, Part 2: What Are the Issues?
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a 19.5 million acre swath of largely roadless tundra in northeast Alaska. It’s one of the largest wildlands in the United States that has not been dramatically altered by human development, and contains ecosystems ranging from coastal estuaries teeming with waterfowl to plains of permafrost to mountains on the north slope of the Brooks Range.