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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
4:43 PM

CONTACT: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Erin Allweiss, 202-513-6254 or cell: 202-277-8370;
Monty Schmitt, 415-875-6100

Historic Lands Bill Will Restore Water Flow and Salmon to San Joaquin River

Congress Passes Package That Will Protect America's Land, Water and Rivers

WASHINGTON - March 25 - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an omnibus public lands package, which includes a landmark settlement to restore water and salmon populations to California’s San Joaquin River. This vote will send a bill to the president’s desk that provides the additional authority and funding needed to restore runs of thousands of salmon each year.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.
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Posted in conservation, Environment, water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
4:33 PM

CONTACT: Earthjustice
Tim Preso, Earthjustice, 406-586-9699
John McManus, Earthjustice, 510-550-6707

House Sends Key Lands Protection Bill to President

Earthjustice saved two of the natural areas receiving protection

WASHINGTON - March 25 - Today the House of Representatives approved a bill that calls for protection of some of America's finest natural landscapes. The Senate has already approved the bill, which is expected to be signed by President Obama.

Two expanses of wild lands that will be protected are still in their natural state due to past efforts by Earthjustice attorneys. One is the Mineral King valley in the southern Sierra Nevada of California. The other is the Wyoming Range in western Wyoming.

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Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities.

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Posted in conservation, Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
4:00 PM

CONTACT: National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
Don Barger, Senior Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Association, P: 865.803.4480 ext. 23

National Parks Conservation Association Praises Congressional Passage of Public Lands Bill

Legislation contains protections for national parks nationwide, including possible addition of a new national park site in Tennessee

WASHINGTON - March 25 - The nation’s leading voice for the national parks, the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) today praised the U.S.
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NPCA is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System.
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Posted in conservation, Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
2:20 PM

CONTACT: Conservation System Alliance

Brian O'Donnell , National Conservation System Foundation (970) 903-0276 brian@ourconservationlegacy.org
Kevin Mack The Wilderness Society (202) 429-2524 kevin_mack@tws.org
Virgil McDill National Trust for Historic Preservation (202) 294-9187 virgil_mcdill@nthp.org

Congress Approves First New Land Conservation System in a Generation

Conservation System unites 26 million acres

WASHINGTON - March 25 - Earlier today, Congress approved legislation permanently establishing the National Landscape Conservation System, which will protect and restore the most scenic, ecologically and historically significant lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. The System, the first of its kind in 50 years, consists of National Monuments, National Conservation Areas, Wilderness Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Scenic and Historic Trails and other protective designations totaling over 850 sites and 26 million acres.

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The Conservation System Alliance is a coalition of eighty conservation, historic preservation, faith-based, recreation, business, education and place-based friends groups representing millions of Americans nationwide. The Conservation System Alliance aims to protect, restore and expand the National Landscape Conservation System by making it permanent, well-funded, well-managed, and inclusive of the best natural and cultural resources under the Bureau of Land Management's care.
Posted in conservation, Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
2:11 PM

CONTACT: Wilderness Society
Paul Spitler (202-429-2672) or Drew Bush (202-429-7441)

Monumental National Wilderness Bill Passes Congress

Will protect over 2 million acres of wilderness in nine states

WASHINGTON - March 25 - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which would permanently protect more than 2 million acres of America's wilderness in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia. The omnibus lands act provides the greatest expansion of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 15 years.  It now advances to the President's desk, where it is expected to be signed into law.

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Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation.
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Posted in conservation, Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
1:45 PM

CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity
Jeff Miller, Conservation Advocate, (510) 499-9185
Jay Lininger, Ecologist, (928) 853-9929, after March 27, 2009

Lawsuit Aims to Protect Endangered Grand Canyon Condors From Lead Poisoning Due to Poor Federal Management

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - March 25 - The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit today against the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service for their failure to protect endangered California condors in the Grand Canyon from toxic lead ammunition and their failure to protect other endangered species, including the desert tortoise, in crafting management plans for huge tracts of public land adjacent to the Grand Canyon.

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At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive.
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Posted in conservation, Environment, pollution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
1:30 PM

CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Jerry Phillips (850) 877-8097; Luke Eshleman (202) 265-7337

Lake Okeechobee Flow Cutoff Looms

Lee County Decries Drinking Water Woes and Caloosahatchee Salinity

WASHINGTON - March 25 - Lee County is bitterly protesting a proposed cutoff of the water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary, citing loss of drinking water supplies, a rise in salinity and harm to its tourist industry, according to correspondence released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The fight pits agricultural users against wildlife and urban demand, as South Florida's water supplies and quality situation continue to deteriorate.

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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. PEER's environmental work is solely directed by the needs of its members. As a consequence, we have the distinct honor of serving resource professionals who daily cast profiles in courage in cubicles across the country.

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Posted in conservation, Environment, water, water quality

Federal Judge Says No to Modified Crops on US Refuge Land

A federal judge in Delaware ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife should not have permitted farming with genetically modified crops on a national wildlife refuge.(AFP/Illustration/Jean-Pierre Muller)

WASHINGTON - In a court case with potential impact in Missouri and across the country, a federal judge in Delaware ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife should not have permitted farming with genetically modified crops on a national wildlife refuge.

U.S. District Judge Gregory Sleet wrote that the Fish and Wildlife agency erred by failing to conduct environmental studies to determine whether farming with genetically modified crops at the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware was compatible with conservation and habitat preservation.

Posted in conservation, Environment, gm food

Oil Plagues Sound 20 Years After Exxon Valdez

Rescue workers hold a cormorant that was caught in the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (Gary Braasch / Corbis)

Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound, oil persists in the region and, in some places, "is nearly as toxic as it was the first few weeks after the spill," according to the council overseeing restoration efforts.

Posted in biodiversity, conservation, Environment, oil, pollution

Nations Near Arctic Declare Polar Bears Threatened by Climate Change

A mother polar bear nurses her baby in the brush and snow off Hudson Bay in this photo taken in November 2006. (Harold Ables / AP)

Five countries that created a treaty nearly four decades ago to protect polar bears through limits on hunting issued a joint statement on Thursday identifying climate change as "the most important long-term threat" to the bears.

The statement came at the end of a three-day meeting in Tromso, Norway, of scientists and officials from the United States, Norway, Canada, Russia and Denmark, all with territory abutting the Arctic Ocean that serves as habitat for the bears. (Denmark was represented through Greenland, which is moving toward becoming an independent country.)

Posted in climate change, conservation, Environment, global warming
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