Western Watersheds Project

Latest Postings

News Release
December 22, 2008
Conservationists Request Feds Replace Photo of Wolf

News Release
November 15, 2008
WWP Wins Administrative Appeal preventing the Forest Service from building livestock developments in the Whetstone Mountains in Arizona.
Read the Appeal

Online Messenger 142
WWP Has a Busy End of Summer and Early Fall

News Release
October 9, 2008 - Federal Protection Sought for Rapidly Declining Sonoran Desert Tortoises
Read the Petition

Watersheds Messenger
Fall '08

September 26, 2008
9th Circuit upholds Idaho federal district court's decision that Idaho Land Board members can be held personally liable for discriminating against conservation bidders of grazing leases on state lands
Read The decision

Pole Creek Monitoring

WWP Arizona litigates grazing on the Sonoran Desert National Monument
Read the Press Release

Cattle ordered off the Yankee Jim in CA !
Read the Order
Read the vacation letter

2008 Cattle Impacts On Central Idaho’s Largest BLM Grazing Allotment
Photos of Mountain Springs allotment

Photos: Beaverhead Deerlodge NF Grazing

Pass Creek Allotment Videos

Copper Basin Allotment Photos

Recent Court Victories

October 14
Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves Officially Regain ESA Protection!
Read The Order

August 15
WWP Wins Appeal of two major BLM Grazing Decisions in the Kemmerer, Wyoming Field Office
Read The Order

July 23
WWP Wins Appeal of Yankee Jim Allotment Grazing Decisions
Read The Order

July 18
**WWP & co-plaintifs win injunction of delisting of Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves **
Wolves regain protection !
Read The Order

June 4
WWP wins Slickspot Peppergrass litigation
FWS ordered to reconsider ESA protection !
Read the News Release
Read The Order

December 4
**WWP wins Greater Sage Grouse litigation**
FWS ordered to reconsider ESA protection !
Read The Order

November 13
Bighorn Sheep on Allison-Berg Allotment protected
Read The Order

September 30
BLM ordered to halt increase in cattle on Ord Mtn. in California citing danger to Desert Tortoise
Read The Order

September 26
Interior ordered to Prepare new 90-Day Finding considering the listing of Pygmy Rabbits
Read The Order

“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
- Aldo Leopold 1949 A Sand County Almanac

Restoring the American West

We all have our individual reasons; memories which evoke the inspirational experience and child-like wonder of our public lands and diverse wildlife. The value of this common trust and of our environmental heritage are worth fighting for.


WWP's Wolf Update October 14 - Judge Molloy grants FWS's Motion to Voluntary Remand delisting - Northern Rocky Mountain wolves regain federal protection! Read the Order

Western Watersheds Project State Office Pages

California

Washington

Arizona

Cattle ordered off the Yankee Jim!
Read the Order
Read vacation letter

The Seattle Times:
Grazing on public land: helpful to ranchers, but harmful to habitat ?

WWP Wins Appeal preserving Whetstone Mountains
News Release
The Appeal.

Sonoran Desert National Monument

2008 Photographic Monitoring of Livestock Impacts to Public Lands in Central Idaho

Sawtooth National Recreation Area & Challis BLM Monitoring

Field Monitor David Stilwill

Lost River Ranger District
Pass Creek Allotment - Tour 10/15/08
(Beth) (Nick)

Sharing with you: "Protecting the land, serving people"

Western Watersheds Project encourages public lands agencies to manage your public lands in the public interest by ensuring that management upholds its legal obligation to make decisions based on verifiable science.

Western Watersheds Project is a non-profit conservation group founded in 1993 which now administers offices in 5 western states. The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation...

"A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet."
-- JOHN ROBBINS, author - Diet for a New America; President, EarthSave Foundation

Restoring the American West

WWP's Wolf Update