How to enjoy your public lands this weekend

How to enjoy your public lands this weekend

By Alaina Kowitz, Communications and Outreach Associate We hope you can join us for our “Celebrate Your Public Lands” rally at the Asahel Curtis Trailhead on April 23!  After our hour-long rally celebrating our public lands, we encourage you to go out and enjoy them! The Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is full of hiking trails and scenic … Continued

Looking ahead to protect our public lands

Reflections on Malheur, America’s natural heritage, and those who would take it from us By Chase Gunnell, Communications Director The seizure of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by armed extremists demanding that the government hand over America’s public lands to local or private control has ended. But the struggle to keep our public lands in public hands … Continued

Join us at Public Lands For All Rally tomorrow!

By Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director Armed extremists seizing Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is bad enough, but worse are politicians, from state legislators to Republican presidential candidates, echoing an extreme minority’s call to sell off or seize America’s public lands for the benefit of energy and natural resource companies and the very wealthy. Protected and … Continued