DURANGO, Colorado, June 21 -- The Conservation Lands Foundation issued the following news release: Earlier this week, litigation was filed attempting to undermine the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Public Lands Rule. The states of Utah and Wyoming filed litigation in federal district court in Utah attempting to send the BLM's new rule putting conservation on equal footing with extractive uses like oil and grass drilling and mining back to the drawing board. The Public Lands Rule, brings bal  more

SAINT MARIES, Idaho, June 21 -- The Western Watersheds Project posted the following news release on June 20, 2024: Conservation groups lost their appeal at the Ninth Circuit court (https://westernwatersheds.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-Ninth-Cir-Order.pdf ) this week, cementing a lower court decision that concluded that bear-baiting in Idaho and Wyoming national forests doesn't harm federally-protected grizzly bears. The court order comes on the heels of this week's news that a hunter in  more

SAINT MARIES, Idaho, June 21 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: Conservation groups lost their appeal at the Ninth Circuit court this week, cementing a lower court decision that concluded that bear-baiting in Idaho and Wyoming national forests doesn't harm federally-protected grizzly bears. The court order comes on the heels of this week's news that a hunter in Idaho's Panhandle killed a grizzly bear at a bait station after mistaking it for a black bear, exactly the situa  more