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Public Process Stymied - Trapping Expands
Despite over 12,000 emails,
letters and signatures of opposition garnered by WildEarth Guardians, Sierra
Club, and Animal Protection of New Mexico, in July, the New Mexico Game
Commission not only lifted a ban on animal trapping, they actually expanded
trapping territory. Disappointed, but not resigned, Guardians is seeking
federal intervention to protect endangered Mexican wolves from injuries and
fatalities caused by steel-jawed traps.
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Anti-wolf Legislation Challenge Continues
WildEarth Guardians will continue
to challenge the removal of Endangered Species Act protection for wolves in
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Congress legislatively removed wolves from the
threatened and endangered species list earlier this year by overturning a
judicial order to retain the animals on the list. Guardians challenged this
unconstitutional breach of power, but lost in federal court. Now we, along with
the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater, have appealed
this ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Stay tuned.
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Victories for
Clean Air in the Four Corners
 Clean air across the American West has taken leaps forward due
to a few important conservation victories in the Four Corners region of
northwestern New Mexico. The EPA granted
a petition filed by Guardians challenging a state-issued air pollution
permit for a natural gas processing plant. In a precedent-setting ruling, they vetoed the permit as
illegal under the Clean Air Act. The EPA then followed through with a milestone
clean air plan for the San Juan Generating Station, an outdated and massive
coal-fired power plant. The plan was developed in response to a lawsuit filed
by Guardians. Both victories significantly strengthen the case for clean
energy.
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Protection Advances for a Fish, Beetles & a Snail
The Chupadera
springsnail, largetooth
sawfish, and a variety of scarabs may have nothing in common except they live—or once
lived—in the American West and WildEarth Guardians is working to protect them under
the Endangered Species Act. Fortunately, the federal government agrees they
need protection and is taking steps to list each of them under the Act. These
actions each come on the heels of our historic ESA settlement agreement, which
is awaiting final approval in federal court.
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Fire and Tires Don’t Mix
The massive Las Conchas fire near
Los Alamos, New Mexico has subsided, but rampant off-road vehicle use in the
area has not. Guardians and allies have called on the Santa Fe National Forest
to issue an emergency closure for the area to prevent damage to soil, watershed
and wildlife. Guardians and partners have also requested the Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest prevent damage to fragile ecosystems burned by the Wallow Fire
by closing the area, much of which is still inhabited by Mexican wolves, to
grazing.
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photo credits: Bobcat: Elroy Limmer. Wolves: Tim Springer. San Juan Generating Station: Jeremy Nichols. Chupadera Springsnail: Robert Hershler, Smithsonian Institution. Deerfire Montana: John McColgan, USDA.
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can contribute to saving the planet in addition to what I do at home, like
recycling, composting, growing my own vegetables, and powering my house with
solar energy.”
- Susan Cover, Santa Fe Member and Volunteer
Secure your tickets today for the 8th annual Guardians
Gala on September 30th. Congressman Martin Heinrich will be our keynote
speaker and we’ll be featuring our new book “The Rio Grande: An Eagle’s
View” at this event.
Look for Rio
Grande book events coming to you in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and
Texas.
Soooo, how did it turn out?
In response to our “The Latest
Threat to Imperiled Species” alert sent July 19, you generated nearly 2000
emails to Congress asking them not to gut the ESA by eliminating funding for
species listings and IT WORKED. Our efforts were successful when Congress voted
two weeks ago to eliminate this harmful budget rider.
Thank you to those who attended
our two carnivore events in Estes Park, Colorado in July. Both the “Lords of
Nature” film showing and the Mountain Lion presentation were a success by our standards, with upwards of 90 people present for Caroline Krumm’s thoughtful feline
talk.
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