WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Earthworks issued the following news release: McCall, ID - The Forest Service has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Draft Record of Decision (DROD) for the Stibnite Gold Project. The planned open-pit cyanide vat leach gold mine in Idaho's Salmon River Mountains would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened species, violate Indigenous treaty rights, and permanently scar thousands of acres of public land in the headwaters of the  more

HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 7 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: LAS VEGAS - Today, the Bureau of Land Management released the Draft Environmental Impact Statementfor the Bonanza Solar Project, a 2,413-acre photovoltaic project on public lands that would be built in what experts have determined to be the most crucial Mojave desert tortoise connectivity corridor in Southern Nevada, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey. Over three square m  more

HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 10 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release: * * * One Wolf Dead, Survivors Taken into Captivity Young wolf family was implicated in livestock losses as coexistence measures were late and incomplete * * * DENVER -- Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Monday afternoon that the entire Copper Creek Wolf Pack has been captured, but the male wolf father, 2309-OR, was captured on Friday, August 30 and died on Tuesday, September 3. The family, incl  more

HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 11 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: LAS VEGAS, NV -- Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved a major 471-mile high voltage transmission line from Las Vegas to Reno, opening up Nevada's most remote, scenic, and biologically significant locations. The so-called "Greenlink West" transmission line would adversely impact wetlands, sage grouse habitat, lands with wilderness characteristics, desert tortoise habitat,  more